Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Independence Day Date: 24 Jul 2024 23:16:03 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <71ae8jdih7c3s6j4psqvm7jr9aumir7hl8@4ax.com> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="27763"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1721 Keith F. Lynch wrote: >The train arrived at Penn Station at 6:45, having taken nearly ten >hours for a trip that never left the state of New York. Since it was >still daylight and I had plenty of time before my next train, I walked >to Times Square. On the way, I noticed a Macy's. I checked what >street it's on. Sure enough it was on 34th Street, just like in the >77 year old movie. I went inside and looked around, but it didn't >seem to sell anything but clothing. Did you take the wooden escalator? It is worth the visit. >Times Square felt like I had walked into a website without using an >ad blocker. I was able to confirm that it's a myth that that narrow >building with all the advertising screens is otherwise empty. I don't >know what may be upstairs, but the ground floor has an Olive Garden >restaurant. If you look around you can imagine you are in a Philip K. Dick novel. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."