Monthly Archives: December, 2017
Quotable NYC
“Seeing with my innocent road-eyes the absolute madness and fantastic hooair of New York with its millions and millions hustling forever for a buck among themselves.” — Jack Kerouac
It Happened Today in New York City
On December 30, 1942, Frank Sinatra played his first solo show at the Paramount Theatre in Times Square. At 27 years old, Sinatra had developed a considerable fan base of teenage girls many of whom, upon finding tickets sold-out, proceeded to riot. This came to be known as “the bobby sox riot” and marked the …
Quotable NYC
“New York abounds beyond all other places in the universe, not excepting Paris, in consummate institutions for cultivating the noble science of gastronomy.” — James Kirke Paulding
It Happened Today in New York City
On December 28, 1967, Muriel Siebert became the first woman to have her own seat on the New York Stock Exchange. She had paid a near record $445,000 and jumped through innumerable hoops for the chance. Eventually dubbed “the First Woman of Finance”, she would go on to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall …
It Happened Today in New York City
On December 27, 1932, Radio City Music Hall opened. Featuring Donald Deskey’s peerless art deco interior design, the world’s largest indoor theatre (at just shy of 6,000 seats) premiered with an enormous extravaganza performance featuring some of the days brightest stars, including Martha Graham and Ray Bolger. However, without judicious cutting, the evening went on …
St. Stephen’s Day
December 26 is the Feast of St. Stephen, the observance best remembered in modern culture in the Christmas carol “Good King Wenceslas”. An official holiday in Ireland, the commemoration of the first Christian martyr is worth marking in any culture that has a sizable Catholic population, which New York certainly does. If you would like …
Quotable NYC
“I began, in my manner, to make a religion of my neighborhood.” — Nora Ephron
Quotable NYC
“I went to New York City to be born again.” — Kurt Vonnegut
Quotable NYC
“Domesticated animals will cease to be domesticated within the limits of towns. Indeed, I believe that twenty years will not elapse before the horse will be unknown in New York, and that automobile carriages and trucks will entirely supplant the vehicles of today. Heavens! What a relief this will be to the Department of Street …
ANSWER:
Mark Twain Congratulations to John for getting the correct answer first! This was the last Trivia Tuesday question of the year. We will be back with more great questions and answers in 2018. The 2016 Trivia Tuesday champion, Maria France Lefebvre, has retained her crown for the third year in a row with six first correct …
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