DavidS3293 wrote:
Grants on 42nd Street, just off Times Square. Two bars, greasy hamburgers, cheap and fresh seafood, open 24 hours a day, sleazy clientele. Disney, go home.
I've been trying for thirty years to find someone who could remember the amazing if always slightly disreputable Grants at the corner of 42nd and Seventh in Times Square, next door to the New Amesterdam Theatre where "Mary Poppins" is now playing. Grant's vanished in the early . About ten different dedicated food counters. First on the left sold great French Fries the size of thumbs in a china bowl, and had excellent Rheingold Scotch Ale on draft for fifteen or twenty cents. Incredibly good little greasy hamburgers for a quarter, sat in onions. Soda fountain where an ice cream soda went for a quarter in a paper cup. Long bar where all the pimps hung out, Grant's "Big Shot" of well-brand whiskey was 60 cents. Clam bar at the back (never had the courage to have raw seafood there.) Any further memories, DavidS ???