More Way Back When....

Way back when....

....we got our advice from Mick & Keith, not Ben & Tim.

....the City had more money than the Mayor.

....there was no Weather Channel, and nobody took Uncle Wetherbee, the five o'clock weatherman, very seriously.

....your office building's lobby was not a fortress.

....you actually wore a sweater around your shoulders on a breezy summer night and you weren't even near the shore. No, it's true.

.... The Bowery was where your parents said you'd wind up dead, if you did not go to law school, so you did, and guess where your daughter just found a little place " to die for?"

...."Jersey Shore" wasn't an insult.

....you couldn't afford the Upper East Side, had to settle for the East Village, and you couldn't tell anybody.

....the High Line was where you waited your turn at Studio 54 and once saw Halston.

.... "deli" was a place you went for lunch from your job, not the place they moved your job, while you were out to lunch.

....we met at Bloomingdale's, instead of over our Bloombergs.

.... a cheeseburger, fries, and a coke wasn't a misdemeanor.

....a cell phone was the thing hanging on the wall in the little jail in that college town, from which you had to call your mom for bail.

....before Manhattan moved to Brooklyn, Disney moved into midtown, and The Village People began to look more real than those new people in the West Village.

....your date said, "Let's get a slice," instead of your life-partner saying,"How about that new tapas place on Ludlow?"

....the meat in the Meat Packing District was not referred to as tartare, and the burgundy on Bowery was made in Hoboken.

....before the annual cost of local school taxes was higher than the total four-year cost for your college degree. Sorry, make that five-years!

... Twitter was a female twit.

....Way back when, way back then....

Ed Note: For those who might not recall Tex Antoine's Uncle Wetherbee, try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Antoine. And, for those who want a real taste of New York, try our friend Willie Nile's song,The Streets of New York. Unfortunately, there is currently no video that we think is good enough to share.