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ZAGATSURVEY 2006 Times Square Pocket Guide Bustling and brilliant and bursting with energy, Times Square is more packed than ever with new people from cutting-edge companies, new shows for an increasingly diverse theater audience, chic new restaurants, striking new buildings and distinctive new retail destinations. With so many people working in and passing through Times Square, we wanted to do more to showcase the area's wide variety of restaurant, nightlife, shopping and hotel options. That's why we are thrilled to present the ZAGATSURVEY Times Square Pocket Guide. This special Times Square Pocket Guide includes:
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Hotel Kid: a Times Square Childhood by Stephen Lewis A Manhattan landmark for fifty years, the Taft in its heyday in the 1930s and '40s was the largest hotel in midtown, famed for the big band in its basement restaurant and the view of Times Square from its towers. As the son of the general manager, Stephen Lewis grew up in this legendary hotel, living with his parents and younger brother in a suite overlooking the Roxy Theater. His engaging memoir of his childhood captures the colorful, bustling atmosphere of the Taft, where his father, the best hotelman in New York, ruled a staff of Damon Runyonesque house dicks, chambermaids, bellmen, and waiters, who made sure that Stephen knew what to do with a swizzle stick by the time he was in the third grade.
Lewis contrasts the fairy-tale luxury of his life inside the hotel with the gritty carnival spirit of his Times Square neighborhood, filled with the noise of trolleys, the smell of saloons, the dazzle of billboards and neon signs. In Hotel Kid, lovers of New York can visit the nightclubs and movie palaces of a vanished era and thread their way among the sightseers and hucksters, shoeshine boys and chorus girls who crowded the streets when Times Square really was the crossroads of the world.
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Postcards from Times Square by George J. Lankevich
Through beautiful postcard images and personal messages that span a century Postcards from Times Square tracks the ever-changing nature of the district of movie palaces and playhouses, elite restaurants and fast-food chains, and the best-known New Year’s Eve celebration in the world. You’ll see the Great White Way go from gaslight to light bulb to neon, and read handwritten thoughts and impressions from ten decades of visitors.
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Times Square Style Graphics from the Great White Way By Vicki Gold Levi and Steven Heller
Before there was Vegas, and long before there was "reality television," there was Times Square. For a century, it has stood as the blazing Crossroads of the World; the sometimes magical, sometimes tawdry, but always spectacular epicenter of American commercial culture. Times Square Style is a visual compendium of the energy and dazzle and glamour that made the Great White Way the most famous -- and notorious -- place in America's most famous -- and notorious -- city. From Ziegfeld's Follies and George White's Scandals to titanic signs with screaming type -- Drink Pepsi! Smoke Camels! Good to the Last Drop! -- to burlesques with dancing girls in short, short skirts, this book brings to colorful life a trove of arcane, lost, and otherwise forgotten promotions, signs, flyers, programs, posters, records, napkins, advertisements, billboards, and other works of ephemera large and small. Times Square Style is published on the centennial anniversary of this defining American place, with more than 200 color images and 25 vintage black-and-white prints.
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