Sunday I was reading the paper on the subway and saw some health food items that I wanted to buy, so I got off the train near the heart of the Theater District and started walking towards the great health food store on West 54th street.

 

As I climbed to the street, I approached Radio City and there was one of the Rockettes all dolled up and handing out flyers for discount tickets to their Christmas Show (starting already). A discount ticket was "only" $42. I'm old enough to remember when the Rockettes Christmas Show PLUS a first run movie was around $7.50 or maybe $10. But I saw the mothers and their kids lined up down the block from the Radio City entrance. And a new Chevy in those days was $2000 and a subway ride was 15 cents (it is now $2.75 and will probably go up next year).

 

Later I approached the big health food store Westerly'son Eighth Avenue and 54th street, across the street from the former small place of the "Soup Nazi" of Steinfeld fame. There is a new soup store in place of the original but I used to buy lunch there from the real "soup nazi" when I worked with Dana at a place in Midtown, we were about four blocks away from the original soup store. By the way, Dana, the former Beefsteak Charlie's on the ground floor of the building where we worked is now a McDonald's - and a souvenir store next to it. But across from Westerly's is a brand new huge, modern Chick fil-A. I would have had lunch there but as I approached I remembered that Chick fil-A is always closed on Sunday in observation of the Christian Sabbath. Maybe I'll go to that branch of Chick fil-A some another time.

 

There are already Christmas decorations in front of the major office buildings on Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and you can hear Christmas music blaring from loudspeakers on the street. We had some two inches of snow last Friday and the weather was what they call in Minnesota "springtime" but it melted by Saturday.

 

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