Child’s

Unspecified

Address

Childs' Restaurant, 36 West 34th Street

GPS

40.749239820766, -73.986599206827

Mostly there were parties—to Orange or the Shore, more rarely to New York and Philadelphia, though one night they marshalled fourteen waitresses out of Childs’ and took them to ride down Fifth Avenue on top of an auto bus. They all cut more classes than were allowed, which meant an additional course the following year, but spring was too rare to let anything interfere with their colorful ramblings.

This side of Paradise

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

One of the venues in the Childs’ Restaurants chain. Identified as the restaurant at 36 West 34th Street, which closed in the 1950s. The company remains active as the Hotel Corporation of America and operates hotels and cruises on three continents.

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