On the Town in New York by Michael Batterberry Ariane Batterberry

Author:Michael Batterberry, Ariane Batterberry [Michael Batterberry, Ariane Batterberry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, General, Social Science, Customs & Traditions
ISBN: 9780415920209
Google: 7U1cTJr5EDcC
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999-01-15T03:35:13+00:00

As New York spread almost to its present limits and took its position as economic capital of what had recently become the most powerful nation on earth, there was a cumbersome amount of money around. The stock market climbed, then climbed again. Everyone invested their savings and profited. It was hardly the moment juste to drive Delmonico's and Sherry's out of business, to padlock Martin's and Shanley's, to wreck Bustanoby's, Churchill's, and Reisenweber's. Rector's was spared the indignity, having expired a few years before, but Murray's Roman Garden was converted into a flea circus. On the last day bartenders stood with trembling lips behind bars, while their patrons openly wept into their drinks. A frustrated society was to take a terrible revenge.

At the onset of Prohibition, Louis Mouquin, whose excellent French restaurant was forced out of business by its inability to

The Salle Cathay of the St. Regis, 1929. Courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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