Re:The Last Old-School Seltzer Shop in New York
by tomcam on Monday May 15, 2023 @08:36AM
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Boomer here, born in Southern California. I read lots of children’s books during the post World War II era.
I realize now that since Manhattan was the center of publishing, and it was probably just convenient for the publishers, virtually all of these books were written by people in the New York area. These books featured lots of terms like brownstone, seltzer, corned beef hash, and egg cream, which took decades for me to understand.
I remember looking them all up in dictionaries, but the dictionaries just couldn’t get across the New York City zeitgeist.
Re:The Last Old-School Seltzer Shop in New York
by Bran_son on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:40AM
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> I read lots of children’s books [..] virtually all of these books were written by people in the New York area.
And virtually all the movies we watch are made in Hollywood. I've always found it sad how impoverished this makes our media - having so much culture be produced by such a small group, we get a fairly narrow set of perspectives represented.
Re:The Last Old-School Seltzer Shop in New York
by tomcam on Monday May 15, 2023 @02:24PM
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Agreed completely. One good development from the last 25 years was that at least Vancouver became a backdrop for so many shows, so there was somewhat more realistic weather appearing in many productions.
I realize now that since Manhattan was the center of publishing, and it was probably just convenient for the publishers, virtually all of these books were written by people in the New York area. These books featured lots of terms like brownstone, seltzer, corned beef hash, and egg cream, which took decades for me to understand.
I remember looking them all up in dictionaries, but the dictionaries just couldn’t get across the New York City zeitgeist.
https://www.amazon.com/Seltzer-Man-Ken-Rush/dp/1481401491
And virtually all the movies we watch are made in Hollywood. I've always found it sad how impoverished this makes our media - having so much culture be produced by such a small group, we get a fairly narrow set of perspectives represented.
https://weigel-comments.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/3v6Yz-158...