An example was the crash of a small plane onto the side of a YMCA (an incident also noted by White in the previous issue); a newsreel crew was able to go from scene to screen in about four hours: BEFORE GERALDO…Fox Movietone news crew in 1930. (City of Toronto archives) * * *...
Note in the foreground the rooftop of the Vanderbilt mansion, demolished in 1926 to make way for the Bergdorf Goodman department store; at right, a page from the new museum’s brochure. (Museum of the City of New York/MoMA) The gallery rooms in the Heckscher were modest — although ...
Liquor license holders can reduce drink prices for up to four hours on any one day, but no more than 15 total hours in a week. Indiana was the most recent state to allow happy hours, reversing a ban that had been in place since 1985. The change went into effect on July 1. That le...
Chief Wiggum mentions a piece of machinery in Shreveport, Louisiana; usually, when referring to a city in the same state, the state name is usually not mentioned after the name of the city. In "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", Homer asks, "We leave you the kids for three hours, and...
On October 24, 1924, Diamond is shot and wounded by shotgun pellets, reportedly after trying to hijack liquor trucks belonging to a rival crime syndicate. On October 16, 1927, Diamond tries to stop the murder of “Little Augie” Orgen. His brother Eddie is Orgen’s bodyguard, but Diamond...
Liquor license holders can reduce drink prices for up to four hours on any one day, but no more than 15 total hours in a week. Indiana was the most recent state to allow happy hours, reversing a ban that had been in place since 1985. The change went into effect on July 1. ...
Exceptions would be made for the hospital or the liquor store for hootch supplies. I walked into an “End Times” scenario. The H-E-B, that pure Texas grocer, was in full pandemonium mode. The local police were arresting a mother for stealing food from an old woman’s shopping cart, ...
Walter wants to invest it in a liquor store while Beneatha wants to use it to pay for medical school. Lena takes a portion of the money to provide the down payment on a house and gives the rest to Walter to invest and put towards Beneatha’s education. When Walter loses the money to...
Back when James and I lived in Minneapolis, there was a guy who worked at the liquor store by the Parkway. Whenever we went in, he’d say, “What you got going on?” by way of greeting. We’ve since moved and I don’t know if that guy, whose name I never learned, is still ...
In addition to the state liquor stores, 100 restaurants and hotels were able to obtain a temporary license that allowed the restaurants and hotels to sell liquor that was bought at a state store. The Liquor Commission charged each hotel $5.50 and each restaurant $2.75 for the licenses, which...