Valentine's manual of old New York . MEMORIES OF OLD NEW YORK: : BY MEN STILL LIVING : : Recollections of Old Sixth Avenue Walter C. Reid Dear to my heart are theScenes of my Childhood XT is difficult to realize the wonderful changes in ourgreat city during the past fifty years until we lookover publications such as this. Without suchcorroborative evidence, the stories of the early days thatwe to the manner born,, are fond of repeating, are opento suspicion as it seems hardly possible that such greatchanges could occur in so short a period. In the Manual for 1916 was shown a cottage that stood
Valentine's manual of old New York . MEMORIES OF OLD NEW YORK: : BY MEN STILL LIVING : : Recollections of Old Sixth Avenue Walter C. Reid Dear to my heart are theScenes of my Childhood XT is difficult to realize the wonderful changes in ourgreat city during the past fifty years until we lookover publications such as this. Without suchcorroborative evidence, the stories of the early days thatwe to the manner born,, are fond of repeating, are opento suspicion as it seems hardly possible that such greatchanges could occur in so short a period. In the Manual for 1916 was shown a cottage that stoodat the corner of Broadway and Twenty-ninth Street atthe rear of which in my boyhood days I have pickedsickel pears, and I am not yet sixty. My grandfatherhad greenhouses on Thirtieth Street between Broadwayand Fifth Avenue, with adjoining city lots covering aspace 250 x 100, for which at one time he paid only thetaxes as rent. [27] VALENTINES MANUAL I was born in a house on Sixth Avenue, and many fondrecollections center around that
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