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As Downtown Brooklyn bustles with last-minute shoppers, even the dowdy Long Island Rail Road terminal on Flatbush Avenue has come to life with festive holiday decor. The slatternly old building is bedecked in wreaths and holly, illuminated red balls, silver trees, princess pines, and all the other appropriate seasonal appurtenances, thanks to the efforts of two commuters who complained about the gloominess they had to endure as they made their way from the station to their jobs at the nearby Williamsburg Savings Bank Building. They convinced the bank's decorators to go to work on the terminal, and the result has proven pleasing to all who seek a respite from the war news and other problems this year....
The LIRR Terminal takes umbrage at being called "slatternly" and "gloomy."
And here's the story of its history and sad ending (note the Loft's store in the old terminal): https://forgotten-ny.com/2010/02/brooklyn-lirr-terminal/
For my money, the old terminal's architecture is much more attractive and inspiring than the new one.
...("Pity they couldn' get ol' Pickle Puss t'put on whiskas or a red suit or' sump'n," says Joe. "I seen'at guy smile one time," says Sally. "Some lady dropped haffadolla onna' floor, an'ne slipped'is foot ova it. She ast'im diddeeseeit, annee sed 'ya missin' ya train, lady, beddagitonbo'ad.' But he was SMILIN'. 'Atshuddatipped'er off.")...
...A 38-year-old building contractor from Bay Shore was hospitalized today after he was bitten by a seal on the beach at Fire Island. Edward Pederson told doctors at Dr. King's Hospital that he spotted the seal basking in the winter sun and thought he might make a fine pet for his children. He picked up the blubbery, and apparently docile, mammal and carried it to his car, but in an unguarded moment let his hand get too close to the seal's mouth. One set of clamped teeth later, Mr. Pederson was doubled over in pain and the seal was flopping his way back to the sea. Mr. Pederson noted that before submerging, the seal looked him straight in the eye and spat a long jet of water in his direction....
I would not hire this idiot to build anything for me.
...A 24-year-old Greenpoint man will be sentenced next week on charges of petty larceny and obstructing a subway turnstile after police caught him sucking nickels out of a coin slot at the Greenpoint station. Chester Madzenski entered a guilty plea at his arraignment before Magistrate Charles Solomon in Bridge Plaza Court, after a subway investigator explained how the trick works: you put a penny in the turnstile slot instead of a nickel, and that jams the mechanism, allowing nickels to back up in the coin channel. After enough have accumulated, you return to that turnstile and apply lip suction to draw the nickels back out of the slot and into your mouth. Said Magistrate Solomon, "this only serves to prove that larceny is a sucker's game."...
That is disgusting, simply disgusting. Subways are filthy. And by the way, the turnstile believes "obstructing" doesn't do justice to the indignity it endured.
...The Football Dodgers, coming off the best season in their history, are looking at the possibility of raising their prices next year. At present, the Grid Flock charges $1.10 and $1.65 at Ebbets Field, compared to the $1.10-$2.20 charged by the Giants up at the Polo Grounds, and with a full house at Brooklyn putting $40,000 in the till, an increase would seem to be warranted. The increase could be even further justified if Larry MacPhail goes ahead with plans to increase the ballpark's seating capacity from 31,000 to 42,000 by adding a double-decked stand in place of the present right-field fence. There are questions about just what such an addition would do to the home-run distances at the park, since the addition couldn't impinge on Bedford Avenue, but if Laughing Larry can figure how to manage it, there could be a cash bonanza in store for both the baseball and football Dodgers....
"The increase could be even further justified if Larry MacPhail goes ahead with plans to increase the ballpark's seating capacity from 31,000 to 42,000 by adding a double-decked stand in place of the present right-field fence."
The opposite of this statement is true. If they increase the seating capacity, then they could increase their revenue without raising ticket prices.
...Don't forget to get your entries in for the Eagle's Ten Best Films of 1940 contest. Judging begins on Monday!...
"His Girl Friday" and "Shop Around the Corner" better do well or this Eagle reader will be miffed. He also wouldn't mind seeing "The Seahawk," "The Philadelphia Story" and "Waterloo Bridge" make the list.
"Gimme a push George!"
Not just saying it, I had the same thought about that name before I read your comment. I'll bet it is a family name, has to be.
Lana should be shooting higher anyway.