Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york with headlines like "Jollity Reigns

with headlines like "Jollity Reigns Supreme

In June 1948

the enormous cast worked up an appetite: at the invitation-only supper that followed

A detailed view of the interior of the Oculus

adopted rats

Chugging Along the Bowery collection-new-york with headlines like "Jollity ReignsNorth view of the Bowery, framed by the Third Avenue Elevated tracks. Visible on the left are the Gaiety Theatre and an advertisement for Casperfield Cleveland Diamonds & Watches. On the streets, horse drawn carriages and trolleys are used for transportation. The Bowery was "the boulevard of the Lower East Side, the city's Cosmopolis," The Times declared. The street ran through "an area of gaunt tenements," harboring the kind of social misery that