{"id":11006,"date":"2012-06-19T02:38:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=11006"},"modified":"2012-06-19T02:38:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:38:23","slug":"bickfords-eighth-avenue-34th-street-nathan-tweti-featured-fade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2012\/06\/19\/bickfords-eighth-avenue-34th-street-nathan-tweti-featured-fade\/","title":{"rendered":"Bickford’s – Eighth Avenue & 34th Street – Nathan Tweti – Featured Fade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9 Nathan Tweti<\/p><\/div>\n

David W. Dunlap writes the following about Bickford\u2019s:<\/p>\n

If you lived in New York anytime from the 1930\u2019s through the 1960\u2019s, chances are you knew Bickford\u2019s. They were up and down Broadway, on Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn, Main Street and Jamaica Avenue in Queens.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cBreakfast at Bickford\u2019s is an old New York custom,\u201d a 1964 guidebook said. \u201cIn these centrally located, speedy-service, modestly-priced restaurants a torrent of traffic is sustained for a generous span of hours with patrons who live so many different lives on so many different shifts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 To say the least. The best minds of Allen Ginsberg\u2019s generation \u201csank all night in submarine light of Bickford\u2019s,\u201d he wrote in \u201cHowl.\u201d The Beat Generation muse, Herbert Huncke, practically inhabited the Bickford\u2019s on West 42nd<\/sup> Street. Walker Evans photographed Bickford\u2019s customers, and Andy Warhol rhapsodized about Bickford\u2019s waitresses. Bickford\u2019s make its way into the work of writers as diverse as Woody Allen and William Styron.[i]<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cDeath (being edged to the doorway): Where\u2019s a good hotel? What am I talking about hotel, I got no money. I\u2019ll go sit in Bickford\u2019s. (He picks up the News).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Getting Even<\/em>, Woody Allen<\/p>\n

\u201cHow vividly there still lingers on my palate the suety aftertaste of the Salisbury steak at Bickford\u2019s, or Riker\u2019s western omelette, in which one night, nearly swooning, I found a greenish, almost incorporeal feather and a tiny embryonic beak.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Sophie\u2019s Choice<\/em>, William Styron<\/p>\n


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[i]<\/a> Dunlap, \u201cOld York,\u201d New York Times<\/em>, www.nytimes.com\/2000\/12\/10\/nyregion\/old-york-look-close-this-ever-new-town-you-will-see-traces-past-peeking-through.html.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David W. Dunlap writes the following about Bickford\u2019s: If you lived in New York anytime from the 1930\u2019s through the 1960\u2019s, chances are you knew Bickford\u2019s. They were up and down Broadway, on Fordham Road and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn, Main Street and Jamaica Avenue in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2110,2111,406,532,643,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bickfords","category-cafeterias","category-david-w-dunlap","category-featured-fade","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms","category-midtown-nyc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-2Rw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}