A Red Diaper Baby's Guide to New York City in the 1960's by Nora (Straus) Albert
FOOD
Yona Shimmel’s Knishes
Schraffts Cheese Bread
Tien Tsin restaurant for Ten Ingredient Soup
Shanghai Café
Wells Fried Chicken and Waffles
Horn and Hardart Automat
Original Fulton Fish Market
Tad’s Steak $1.99 with Baked Potato
PLACES TO VISIT AND THINGS TO DO
Henry Street Settlement
New Dance Group
Try on hats and sample perfume at Bonwit Teller
Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
Serendipity’s
Radio City Music Hall
Feast of San Gennaro
Salt Water Pool in the St George Hotel in Brooklyn
Meet friends in Washington Square Park
Boycott Woolworth’s
Start to Buy Trailways Bus tickets with change but come up short
March for Civil Rights
March against the War in Vietnam
THEATER
A Raisin in the Sun
West Side Story
Three Penny Opera
My Fair Lady
Finnian’s Rainbow
A RED DIAPER FASHION MUST-HAVES
Alan Block Sandals
Fred Braun Shoes and Bags
Lee or Wrangler jeans
Wraparound Skirts
Black turtlenecks
Black Leotards
Black Tights
Pierced Ears
Hoop Earrings
POLITICAL SINGERS AND SONGWRITERS
Woody Guthrie
Pete Seeger
Joan Baez
Judy Collins
The Weavers
Richie Havens
Odetta
Bob Dylan
Phil Ochs
MUSIC VENUES
Folk City
Village Vanguard
Blue Note
Carnegie Hall
Donnell Library
Algonquin Hotel
Nora Straus Albert lived in Sunnyside until 1968. She and husband Ken now live in Northampton MA, close to their grandchildren. She still believes in the values she was brought up with.