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The Last Old-School Seltzer Shop in New York
- tomcam 3y agoBoomer 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 because 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.
- mhb 3y agoThe Seltzer Man is a nice one https://www.amazon.com/Seltzer-Man-Ken-Rush/dp/1481401491 https://www.amazon.com/Seltzer-Man-Ken-Rush/dp/1481401491
- Bran_son 3y ago> 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.
- tomcam 3y agoAgreed 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.
- morkalork 3y agoNot sure what I expected but I immediately recognized the bottles in the article! https://weigel-comments.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/3v6Yz-1582844524-1g%20seltzer%20bottle.png https://weigel-comments.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/3v6Yz-158...
- tomcam 3y agoBugs bunny using seltzer bottles as a firefighter!!! Love that!
- noxvilleza 3y agoSeen a few Youtube videos on Brooklyn Seltzer Boys over the years, found them pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAkMbk20y4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAkMbk20y4 (for example).
- ms512 3y agohttps://archive.is/9zkhT https://archive.is/9zkhT