Here Is New York, A Gay Baedeker of Gotham
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Worden, Helen. Here Is New York, A Gay Baedeker of Gotham. First Edition. 1939. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good plus condition—endpapers and pages 92-93 show discoloration; jacket shows some chipping and extensive tape repairs but looks attractive in Mylar.
It is said that New York is aptly named, because it permits nothing to grow old. Fortunately, there is this book, which preserves Art Deco Manhattan in amber. It was published in coordination with the 1939 New York World’s Fair, cementing the city’s position as the world’s leading metropolis. The book is a snapshot of that era, with descriptions of the city’s restaurants, theatres, and astonishing twelve hundred seventy-five nightclubs. The text is supplemented with line drawings (also by the author).
“El Morocco, the exotic night club at 55 East Fifty-fourth Street, is responsible for the development of that class known as ‘café society.’ Languid ladies and Bar Harbor-Southampton boys lean against the zebra-striped wall divans and sip scotch and sodas while Orson Munn, president of the Scientific American, rhumbas with his wife.”
--Helen Worden
It is said that New York is aptly named, because it permits nothing to grow old. Fortunately, there is this book, which preserves Art Deco Manhattan in amber. It was published in coordination with the 1939 New York World’s Fair, cementing the city’s position as the world’s leading metropolis. The book is a snapshot of that era, with descriptions of the city’s restaurants, theatres, and astonishing twelve hundred seventy-five nightclubs. The text is supplemented with line drawings (also by the author).
“El Morocco, the exotic night club at 55 East Fifty-fourth Street, is responsible for the development of that class known as ‘café society.’ Languid ladies and Bar Harbor-Southampton boys lean against the zebra-striped wall divans and sip scotch and sodas while Orson Munn, president of the Scientific American, rhumbas with his wife.”
--Helen Worden
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