March 24, 1964: A warm day — “temperatures in the low fifties” but with sun — apparently rendered Ne
March 24, 1964: A warm day — “temperatures in the low fifties” but with sun — apparently rendered New Yorkers ravenous, for “comment almost everywhere reflected a hunger for ‘open air and spring,’ ” The New York Times reported. “By 3 p.m. 100 pounds of frankfurters, 50 gallons of coffee and 50 pounds of hamburgers had been consumed” at the Central Park Zoo, the story read, citing numbers that sounded more like what an ungulate zoo attraction might consume than its visitors. Photo: Eddie Hausner/The New York Times. -- source link
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