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Known for our Excellent Food and Liquor Since 1918
7th Avenue at 34th Street, New York 1, N.Y.
Opposite Pennsylvania Station
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This country has lost it’s mind.
One of the classic flavors on the Lower East Side of New York during the tenement era was Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Soda, a celery soda so popular during the 1930s, it was nicknamed the Jewish Champagne.
Elizabeth Street view in 1912, New York.
On this day, April 23 in 1896 the first movie theater opened.
Koster and Bial’s Music Hall was an important vaudeville theatre in New York, famous in cinema history as the site of the first public exhibition of Edison's Vitascope on April 23, 1896. It was located at Broadway and Thirty-Fourth Street, where Macy’s flagship store now stands.
This is the book I’m currently reading. Immigrants from Scilla, Calabria, Italy come to Elizabeth Street, New York around the turn of the century.
New York circa 1910, somewhere on the Lower East Side. “Bread for the poor.” 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
On this day, January 30 in 1968, The Tet Offensive, also known as the Big Lie began. By the end of 1967, the Communist cause in the Vietnam War was in deep trouble. Hanoi’s decision to launch the Tet offensive was born of desperation. It was an effort to seize the northern provinces of South Vietnam with conventional troops while triggering an urban uprising by the Vietcong that would distract the Americans — and, some still hoped, revive the fading hopes of the Communists. The offensive itself began on January 30, with attacks on American targets in Saigon and other Vietnamese cities, and ended a little more than a month later when Marines crushed the last pockets of resistance in the northern city of Hue. It not only destroyed the Vietcong as an effective political and military force, it also, together with the siege of Khe Sanh, crippled the NVA, which lost 20 percent of its forces in the South and suffered 33,000 men killed in action, all for no gain. By the end of 1969, over 70 percent of South Vietnam’s population was rated by the U.S. military as under government control, compared with 42 percent at the beginning of 1968.
Josef Goebbels called it the Big Lie, the deliberate misrepresentation of facts and reality in order to achieve a political objective. It’s been part and parcel of the New World Disorder we’ve lived under for the past century, ever since Vladimir Lenin first used a Big Lie to disguise his seizure of power from Russia’s post-czar provisional government in November 1917, by telling the Russian people he was preventing a coup not perpetrating one. America’s first major encounter with the Big Lie, with all its disastrous consequences, started 50 years ago today, when the American mainstream media — CBS and the other networks, plus the New York Times and the Washington Post — decided to turn the major Communist Tet offensive against U.S. forces and South Vietnam on January 30, 1968, into an American defeat, rather than what it actually was: a major American victory. We’ve all lived in the disorder and chaos that campaign set in motion ever since.