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December 30, 1930
The Milwaukee Leader
Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
What is this article about?
New Year's Eve in New York: celebrations cost from 20 cents (Times Square basics) to $2,000 (luxury hotels), with middle options at $60; depression lowers cover charges at venues like Biltmore and Plaza.
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N.Y. Year-End Whoopee At 20 Cents to $2,000
BY HARRY FERGUSON.
Staff Correspondent
The United Press
NEW YORK-A conscientious attempt to ascertain how much money will be spent along Broadway on New Year's eve celebrations revealed today that individual expenditures will range from 20 cents to $2,000. Both prices include a headache.
The throng that annually invests 20 cents in its celebration will be augmented this year by a large number of persons who believe conditions are basically sound, but don't care to spent any money proving it.
As usual, their money is budgeted at follow: Subway fare to Times Square, 5 cents; one paper cap, 5 cents; one paper horn, 5 cents; subway fare home, 5 cents.
Good Old Headache.
Upon arrival at Times Square they don the caps, blow the horns and push each other off the sidewalk. Eventually the violent exhaling required to blow the horn, combined with the glare of the bright lights, gives everybody a headache.
Then one goes home and knows one has been some place and seen something.
The $2,000 can and will be spent in any one of the following places:
Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Central Park Casino and Club Lido.
The $2,000 includes a horn.
For the man in between, however, the cost will be about $60, excluding the cost of a woman to stay with the two children while he and the wife go through that quaint ritual known as "making whoopee."
He will take her to a musical show-perhaps The New Yorkers or Three's a Crowd-and whereas on ordinary evenings it would cost him $5.50 a ticket, the tariff for New Year's eve is $11 a seat.
After theater, supper and celebration at one of the better hotels will come to $30, and the taxicab home is going to cost $3. That leaves $5, and a choice between a pint of middling rye or three quarts of gin.
Most of them will make it rye.
Cut Cover Charges.
Business depression is reflected in lower prices in the hotels and night clubs. Already the following reductions have been announced in cover charges:
Biltmore, from $15 to $12.50; McAlpin, from $14 to 12; Pennsylvania, from $15 to $12; Plaza, from $12 to $10, and the St. Regis from $15 to $12. Nothing daunted, the Central Park Casino will ask $20 a person, and probably get it.
What has come to be known as the Broadway crowd-actors, chorus girls, newspaper columnists and all racketeers who own evening clothes-will find their amusement in places like the Club Abbey, the Cotton club in Harlem and Barney's down in Greenwich village.
BY HARRY FERGUSON.
Staff Correspondent
The United Press
NEW YORK-A conscientious attempt to ascertain how much money will be spent along Broadway on New Year's eve celebrations revealed today that individual expenditures will range from 20 cents to $2,000. Both prices include a headache.
The throng that annually invests 20 cents in its celebration will be augmented this year by a large number of persons who believe conditions are basically sound, but don't care to spent any money proving it.
As usual, their money is budgeted at follow: Subway fare to Times Square, 5 cents; one paper cap, 5 cents; one paper horn, 5 cents; subway fare home, 5 cents.
Good Old Headache.
Upon arrival at Times Square they don the caps, blow the horns and push each other off the sidewalk. Eventually the violent exhaling required to blow the horn, combined with the glare of the bright lights, gives everybody a headache.
Then one goes home and knows one has been some place and seen something.
The $2,000 can and will be spent in any one of the following places:
Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Central Park Casino and Club Lido.
The $2,000 includes a horn.
For the man in between, however, the cost will be about $60, excluding the cost of a woman to stay with the two children while he and the wife go through that quaint ritual known as "making whoopee."
He will take her to a musical show-perhaps The New Yorkers or Three's a Crowd-and whereas on ordinary evenings it would cost him $5.50 a ticket, the tariff for New Year's eve is $11 a seat.
After theater, supper and celebration at one of the better hotels will come to $30, and the taxicab home is going to cost $3. That leaves $5, and a choice between a pint of middling rye or three quarts of gin.
Most of them will make it rye.
Cut Cover Charges.
Business depression is reflected in lower prices in the hotels and night clubs. Already the following reductions have been announced in cover charges:
Biltmore, from $15 to $12.50; McAlpin, from $14 to 12; Pennsylvania, from $15 to $12; Plaza, from $12 to $10, and the St. Regis from $15 to $12. Nothing daunted, the Central Park Casino will ask $20 a person, and probably get it.
What has come to be known as the Broadway crowd-actors, chorus girls, newspaper columnists and all racketeers who own evening clothes-will find their amusement in places like the Club Abbey, the Cotton club in Harlem and Barney's down in Greenwich village.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
Misfortune
What keywords are associated?
New Years Eve
Celebrations
Spending
Times Square
Cover Charges
Economic Depression
Where did it happen?
New York, Broadway, Times Square
Story Details
Location
New York, Broadway, Times Square
Event Date
New Year's Eve
Story Details
Reports on New Year's Eve spending in New York ranging from 20 cents for subway fare, caps, and horns at Times Square to $2,000 at luxury venues like Hotel Ritz-Carlton; middle-class option around $60 for show, supper, and drinks; reduced cover charges due to business depression.