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For W.Stevenson... Thanks for the vanilla covered scone & espresso on the other side of JoYful... Imagine I used to think you were so shy and afraid of me since you always looked away when I sauntered into a room... What i didn't know doesn't hurt at all ... In the night, a sharp smell of motor car mechanic boys covered in oil and grease and sweat and hardly nothing else left me breathless and intoxicated...
During the 19th century, New York City became the main entry point for European immigrants to the United States, beginning with a wave of Irish during their Great Famine. Millions came through Castle Clinton in Battery Park before Ellis Island opened in 1892 to welcome millions more, increasingly from eastern and southern Europe. The Statue of Liberty opened in 1886 and became a symbol of hope. In the 19th century between 1855 and 1890, an estimated 8 million immigrants passed through New York's Castle Clinton at Battery Park in Manhattan. Early in this period, most immigrants came from Ireland and Germany. A wave of irish had came to New York and America during the Great Famine. Ellis Island opened in 1892, and between 1880 and 1920, most immigrants were German and Eastern European Jews, Poles, and other eastern and southern Europeans, including many Italians. By 1925, New York City's population outnumbered that of London, making it the most populous city in the world. New York boomed during the Roaring Twenties, before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, and skyscrapers expressed the energy of the city. New York City was the site of successive tallest buildings in the world from 1913–74. Gallery New York SkyscrapersJournalCharles: "Greatly New York", the completion, to be finished Sunday at Noon...
Yes, New Yorkers so full of vaunting pride built their most iconic towers and looked out to see the city was not an endless succession of canyons but it had limits between the Hudson and East River...Beyond the Hudson and Palisades of New Jersey lay an expance of blue and green, and New Yorkers who had climbed to the top suddenly understood their own crowning error, its Pandora's box: New York was a city after all and not a Universe that I, too, demanded..of New York... ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, My Lost City: Personal Essays 1920-40 tags: disillusionment, empire-state-building, farewells, new-york-city Read more quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald “From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. And just as it had been tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza roof to take leave of the beautiful city extending as far as the eyes could see, so now I went to the roof of that last and most magnificent of towers. Then I understood. Everything was explained. I had discovered the crowning error of the city. Its Pandora's box. Full of vaunting pride, the New Yorker had climbed here, and seen with dismay what he had never suspected. That the city was not the endless sucession of canyons that he had supposed, but that it had limits, fading out into the country on all sides into an expanse of green and blue. That alone was limitless. And with the awful realization that New York was a city after all and not a universe, the whole shining ediface that he had reared in his mind came crashing down. That was the gift of Alfred Smith to the citizens of New York.” I wAS supposed to meet this guy, an attractive mechanic I find hot, last night at Polk and Post for drinks and to see again this goregoues very tall New Zealand gal with curly blond hair i just met. She was bartending there at Polk and Post for a chairy event in a swin suit but... well, i fell .into one of those very deep, long, good sleeps when there is no existence... no anything dead or alive up until now when I woke up on my side with a smile and joy at the bewitching hour... AnyWay the New Zealand chic is extra cool... She swims all the way from Farallon Islands out in the freezing cold Pacific Ocean to the Golden Gate Bridge which takes her 17 hours and she's wearing just a swin suit over her white skin...tough skin I'ld say...and stamina like no other...why she could take on the entire Russian army... and all the armies in Asia and keep up her endurance-- I am sure of it.. The uninhabited Farrallon Islands are way out in the stormy Pacific (32 miles from The City) and actually are a part of San Francisco City and County limits... I've been out there once and got sea-sick--a terrible feeling; it was so rocky and stormy I never expected to return to the living ...
https://youtu.be/iV5VKdcQOJE Aysenur3 months ago "I crumble completely when you cry" hits me like a fucking freight train. Reply 224 View all 5 replies Nicole Francis3 weeks ago . Reply Not Yoobin2 weeks ago i p much tear up every time Reply 1 JJ 862 months ago They should play this live more often, it's so great! |
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