Buckles Blog: Post Card #1 (From Buckles)

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Chic Silber said...: Was this the 1st or 2nd location

of "The Garden" As I recall the

joint up on 8th between 49 & 50

which will always remain my very

favorite show building was known

to be the 3rd home so if this was

indeed the original it would have

been at "Madison Square" which is

the diagonal intersection of 5th

Avenue & 23rd Street

As a side note the original name

of "Times Square" was "Longacre"

As Broadway meanders up through

the island it's intersections with

each Avenue is called either a

square or a circle (trivia); 11 February, 2012 10:12
Chic Silber said...: Addendum to that trivia

These "Squares" are dual triangles

"Times" is a combination of

Longacre & Duffy (Father Duffy); 11 February, 2012 10:44
Ole Whitey said...: This is where Harry Kendall Thaw shot and killed Stanford White over that brazen hussy Evelyn Nesbit (Thaw's wife).; 11 February, 2012 13:42
Chic Silber said...: Sounds like the makings of a film

& one of the last century's best

Broadway musicals Whitey

And Now I'm The Girl On The Swing; 11 February, 2012 14:02

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