Our last installment ended at Hotel Nacional which has hosted mobsters, politicians and actors. I leave it to you to decide how many categories that makes.
…If you thought (as I did) that those were the years of plentiful cheap energy or that people weren’t paying attention to how much they used, you’d be wrong.
Although the opening of the 1939 New York Worlds Fair was timed to coincide with the 150th anniversary of George Washington’s inauguration, this bit of trivia didn’t get much traction, as we say these days.