{"id":1060,"date":"2008-03-11T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T19:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2010-11-18T23:38:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T23:38:42","slug":"another-false-memory-west-107th-street-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/03\/11\/another-false-memory-west-107th-street-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Another False Memory – West 107th Street & Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"False
\n\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Broadway & West 107th Street<\/strong>
\nUpper West Side, Manhattan<\/span>
\n– taken December, 2002<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>False Memories II<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

– <\/strong>Olympia Theatre.<\/em><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This False Memory<\/strong><\/em> has an interesting story. I had heard about this sign from my friend Linda Bahoritsch who lives around the block from it. It is the winter of 2002. I\u2019m standing on West 107th and Broadway, peering down an alleyway trying to figure out how to get the best photograph of this fading sign through a chain link fence. There was snow on the ground and a huge dumpster was blocking the view. Nearby I saw a police barricade which I quickly dismantled from its horse and started shoving under the fence to move the dumpster away from my nostalgic subject. Vincenzo waited patiently in the car. When the dumpster was pushed far enough away from my line of focus, I wedged the blue wooden plank under one of the casters so it wouldn\u2019t roll back into view.<\/div>\n
At this point, a Puerto Rican building superintendent from a nearby six story walkup shouted out to me, \u201cGreat thing what you are doing. That\u2019s history!\u201d He obviously figured out my plan. Almost immediately afterwards, an erudite Upper-West Side Jewish woman in her late fifties exclaimed:<\/div>\n
\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a fake. They painted it a couple of years ago for that movie about Orson Welles- what was his name again? You know him- Susan Sarandon\u2019s husband? Oh yeah- Tom Robbins. No Tim! Yeah. What the hell was the name of that movie again? The Hand That Rocks?\u2026 no, no, THE CRADLE WILL ROCK! That\u2019s it. Yeah. It\u2019s a fake. But you may as well take a picture of it anyway. They\u2019re tearing the building down next week.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Hence- the false memory.<\/div>\n

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