Harlem (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
BOATING: Row boats are available in all the city parks in summer, at
two bits an hour (peanuts for yourself and the ducks, extra). Swell way
to woo a doll; she can't walk home.
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BRIDGE GAMES FOUND: Are you looking for congenial opponents? Call
Mildred Lovejoy, CO 59290. Or try the bridge clubs in many hotels.
Though patrons are charged for playing, the law says they aren't
gambling houses. Why? We wouldn't know. For lessons, Banfield, PL
5-0980, or Cummings, CO 5-9515.
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BURLESQUE: Who brought that up?
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BUS RIDES: Hurry, hurry, hurry, if you still want New York's cheapest
thrill, riding with your gal on top of a Fifth Avenue bus. The company
is gradually retiring all the double deckers. No open-top buses are
left, anyway.
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CHAPERON SERVICE (For girls or unaccompanied wives): If pretty, call us.
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CLEANERS, ONE DAY: Yep, we still have 'em here. Your hotel valet will
take care of it; otherwise Misch, on West 47th Street.
_Midnight Manners_: Don't smear your lipstick on a man's lapel while
dancing. Cleaning rouge and powder stains is expensive. And his wife
might get fussy.
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CLOTHES REWOVEN: If the doll accidentally burns your suit instead
of you, while protecting herself with her cigarette from your mad
advances, consult the Classified phone directory.
_Wisdom of a White Way Wolf_: You should wait until she finishes the
cigarette.
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COMFORT STATIONS AND REST ROOMS: Saloonkeepers aren't hospitable to
men's room customers and get downright sore at ladies' room patrons.
But if you gotta, all subway stations have free comfort stations,
usually filthy. Often degenerates and thugs lurk there. Many hotels
maintain pay (5 or 10 cents) stations, others have the tip-as-you-go
system. Minimum, 25 cents, if you use a towel. Rest rooms in railroad
stations are open all night. (Fee, 5 and 10 cents. Also baths, 25 cents
and up.) Free comfort stations, operated by the city at 47th Street and
Broadway, 60th and Central Park West, 42nd Street behind the library,
and in all parks.
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CONCERTS: You'd be surprised how many young chippies patronize Carnegie
Hall since Stokowski took Gloria Vanderbilt away from Pat di Cicco. Our
chief concert and recital halls are Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Steinway
Hall, and Times Hall, with the City Center Theatre often going in for
same.
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CONFIDENTIAL DETECTIVES: Bolan (ex-Commissioner of Police) Agency,
Empire State Building, LA 4-5100.
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