Nostalgic

This is one of many iconic New York buildings.

In lunch conversation, as one thing led to another, my memory while active and ecletic still seemed as full of holes as Swiss cheese.

I could start an anecdote, but crucial details required a session with Google.

Filling in Fred MacMurray‘s role in Double Indemnity didn’t jog enough of the story. The point of it had been to detail Akim Tamiroff as a window washer in a very different MacMurray film, Honeymoon in Bali. But I offer too much information.

The detour into the movies was one path over lunch. The other was a recollection from my C.V. which had long been forgotten but is ever so pertinent to this Walk with Me, Too blog.

Eons ago, I was on a junior board at the Municipal Art Society with offices in the Lotte Palace Hotel at the Villard Houses.

MAS is one of several preservationist advocacy groups in our city.

Jobbing

What jobs have you had?

Is walking around and writing about it a job? Well, I kind of feel like today it is my job.

Admittedly, it’s a self-created job, one I took on as a way of sharing my views and tours of our city.

Usually, a job brings home a paycheck. My pay for this job is the gratification of having you read my words.

Coffee hunt

We have walked the city looking for good to great cups of coffee for a long while.

I like to think that we’ve succeeded more often than not. That does not mean we won’t keep reporting on the real finds as we stumble upon them.

Stay tuned for more from the coffee trail. ☕️

Here’s a partial recap of earlier searches: