For years, New York seemed more foreign and intimidating than Paris, Munich, Washington, or other cities I knew. Switchblades, peep shows, con men, crazies, bad neighborhoods, muggers, and way too much traffic. Worst of all were the prices. Everywhere else was cheap by comparison.
My first job out of college required me to program an arcane NCR computer, and the sole test machine on the East Coast was in the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. The menu posted in the window of a restaurant in the neighborhood was so pricey that it took my breath away. I could not believe they were charging more than a dollar for a hamburger!
Tonight I’m at the City Club Hotel, in between the Harvard Club and the Algonquin on 44th. The Bistro Moderne, our hotel’s restaurant, offers a hamburger for $32!
Thank goodness I know other options.
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Wonderful! I have just started working as an Instructional Designer but the moment I saw this first entry I am all smiles. Can I forget this? So playfully a point has been made. This is how learning should take place, more pictutes less text and a playful attitude, wow! I must thank you and congratulate you for you have made me re-affirm my conviction that learning should be so natura that you do not realise the transition of where the playful lead-in ceased and where the actual learning began. Let me go back to the blog and learn some more. Can’t wait!
That’s nothing. The Blue Room at the Algonquin next door has $10,000.00 martinis.
$10,000 Cocktail Sparkles Among Favorite Old Gems
on the Algonquin Hotel’s New Martini Menu
New York – 10/18/04 – Whether you’re looking for the perfect proposal or just enjoy a little bauble with your cocktail, The Algonquin’s new “Martini on the Rock” is just the drink for you! “Martini on the Rock” carries a $10,000* price tag and includes a private meeting with the hotel’s preferred jeweler to select the perfect diamond to suit your fancy.
http://www.algonquinhotel.com/press_cocktail_10182004.html
-j
Thirty two dollars for a hamburger is a lot, but when was it that you programmed the NCR machine? I mean, prices have risen a lot since 1957 (first NCR computer), but you have to order the Inflation-Adjusted Hamburger… though I guess that the $32 hamburger would’ve cost at least $2 back in the 1950’s.
Dan
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$32 in 1966 dollars amounts to $4.80.
John, the Algonquin’s martini menu is dynamite. Thanks.