Slices Of The Apple

July, 1966

Slices of the AppleNew York in the Twenties: color it white, a dazzling, blinding white for the Great White Way, Gotham's answer to Paris, where die suckers flocked like lemmings, where cider and seltzer passed for champagne, where the rumrunners' pistolas boomed louder than the music that filled the theaters, dance halls, speak-easies and cabarets from the Palace to Princess Oui Oui's; color it black for Harlem, the iris of the city's eye, focusing and reflecting the mirror image of a post-War...