tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7471307103235274057.post7558805341947856690..comments2024-03-15T15:22:27.584-04:00Comments on Mitch Broder's Vintage New York: Old New York: Christmas is Served, at Rolf's German RestaurantMitch Broderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13302360115689566047noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7471307103235274057.post-26211598050454326592013-04-23T16:06:31.933-04:002013-04-23T16:06:31.933-04:00These photos are amazing..and rival the best in th...These photos are amazing..and rival the best in the business...if ya know what I mean!Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00347784120126985760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7471307103235274057.post-12098043772732465432013-04-09T19:46:02.304-04:002013-04-09T19:46:02.304-04:00Lo these many months later, I come to find out tha...Lo these many months later, I come to find out that Jimmy's Corner has supposedly been there only since the mid-70's, where you would have thought it had been around since there really was a wall on Wall Street, that's how "legendary" it is. I had occasion to be in Times Square recently, to go to the IRS on W.44th st, and in walking to the 7th Av subway when I was done, I chanced to look inside the window of Jimmy's Corner, a place I've never been to (I'm rarely if ever in Times Square-- I'm not a theatergoer), and lo and behold, it had many of the kinds of Christmas lights I was talking about hanging up there as I had described in the place I was dimly recollecting; I'm actually wondering if Jimmy's Corner is the successor in that space, or did the owner change the name and theme and is it the place I was describing-- I wonder?a different Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7471307103235274057.post-10719153292670128702013-01-11T17:31:10.346-05:002013-01-11T17:31:10.346-05:00I seem to recall, dimly, a hole-in-the-wall bar in...I seem to recall, dimly, a hole-in-the-wall bar in generally the Times Square area (somewhere West 40's, without being deepest Hell's Kitchen) in generally the early 70's era, as a "theme bar" called the Christmas Tree, or something like it. It was not nearly so well or so heavily decorated, however, and it really was more the blinking lights (so common in bars), to the nth degree, with Santa pictures, candy canes and things of that nature. I'm going back 40 years, of course, and there's always the vaguest of chances the old memory is playing a joke on me. But I'd take my oath there was such a place. The conceit, of course was "Every Day Ought To Be Christmas!"a different Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7471307103235274057.post-74238816459054278942012-11-28T06:33:58.503-05:002012-11-28T06:33:58.503-05:00That's a whole lotta bling for one room! Where...That's a whole lotta bling for one room! Where do they store all that stuff when the season is over?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com