Jim McClure
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Leading businessman George S. Schmidt liked the way York was heading in the Gay Nineties, five years after it had become a city.
But he felt some folks had held too firmly to the past for decades and, in fact, were still doing so. Let well enough alone was a motto which we devotedly followed for a hundred years and which might well have been engraven on our borough seal, he wrote in the daily York Gazette in February 1892.
He didn t stop there. We lived a life as placid and contented as it was narrow and bigoted, he wrote, and blindly sacrificed on the altar of a mistaken conservatism every tendency toward municipal advancement. He wrote these words in connection with businessman A.B. Farquhar’s aggressive improvements to the newspaper he had just acquired, the York Gazette.
We have lost all sight of our civic values
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Preparing for a busy day at the ‘21’ Club’s popular Bar Room, which is festooned with “toys” from its famed clientele.
In 1931, Ernest Hemingway was caught in its kitchen having sex with gangster Legs Diamond s girlfriend. Holly Golightly dined there in
Breakfast at Tiffany s, as did the book s author, Truman Capote. Grace Kelly had its food delivered to an incapacitated Jimmy Stewart in the movie
Rear Window.
Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Taylor ate there, as did Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, Luciano Pavarotti, Audrey Hepburn, Helen Hayes, and Dorothy Parker, nearly a dozen American presidents and all kinds of business moguls. Its walk-in humidor cigars were a major feature of the restaurant before the New York smoking ban was home to the good smokes of Yul Brynner, Jack Lemmon and John F. Kennedy (when he was a senator) as well as Henry Ford II and the Duke of Windsor, among many others.