I am going to New York City next week.
Does anyone know where Mickey Mantle's
Restaurant is?
Thanks,
Tim

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I found it! It's on S.Central Park Ave.
Hamburgers are $19.95 each; but you
get fries.
Tim K.
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$19.95!!!  Welcome back to Michigan, home of the Blimpy Burger.
So, how much fun was it?

S. Central Park Ave. ? I think you mean "Central Park South"
If you do, that's is definitely the high rent district.
(Between the Plaza and the Essex House Hotels)
I'm surprised you get anything for $19.95  :-)

We had a great time in the city.
Certainly a whole different way of
life! Got to see taping of Late Nite
with Conan O'Brien. Hope they keep
him. Yes, the restaurant in question
is on "Central Park South". Thanks for
the correction.

My old stomping ground, from an earlier epoch. "The City" is cool.

And I stomped there before you did.

And I was born there and stomped my way through high school and college
there, and got married there and had two kids there, a long long time ago.

Wow! Three of us NYC stompers. I'll Rane had first shot at it.
Well, we've highjacked this item away from the out-of-towners, for sure.

I gotta get back sometime and check out the Natural History Museum's
remodeling. I've heard good and bad things about it, but geez,
I used to live in that building, practically.( still an AMNH member)
I left to go to college, and returned only for occasional visits since.

Out-of-towners may not know that "The City" means Manhattan, not all NYC.

There is no more vibrant, wonderful or exciting city in the world than NYC.
See a show, root for my beloved Yankees (or even the Mets), ride a ferry, eat
any kind of food that you can imagine, I can go on for hours. If anyone needs
touring suggestions, leave a message. P.S., I'm not with the tourism board, I'm
just enthusiastic about the place.

I lived in New York until I was 18. The city *did* have some points, but
I would not want to live there (or nearby) now.

Why not Rane?

Too crowded. I grew up in NY, and then lived near Boston, San Francisco,
and London (England), before coming here. Ann Arbor struck me as a
real "cow town" at the time. But I've gotten used to the ease of getting
around, lack of auto traffic, lack of dirty air, ease of departure
to other points, lack of bums all over the place, etc. There are
some negatives here, but they aren't as bad as New York's (IMHO). One
is, the much smaller availability of cultural activities here, in both
number and variety. 

While growing up in New York, you tolerate it's disadvantages.
rcurl and I both went to school in the Boston Area (Cambridge) , and
I skipped England, coming directly to AA from there. AA was a cow town then.

We used to drive to Detroit to go shopping. There were no malls in those days.
We had to go to downtown Detroit to find a real department store (Hudson's).
If things hadn't changed around by the time I finally got my degree,
we probably wouldn't have stayed. But it took me long enough and they did.

I miss a lot of things about NY. Museums, concerts, all my favorite
sports teams, much much more. I stay here because I like walking in the
woods and driving to work in 10 minutes. I don't feel as strongly
about not going back though, but I wouldn't want to live in the city
(too expensive) nor work there if I didn't live there (too inconvenient).

Re Ann Arbor as "cow town":  I also came to Ann Arbor after attending
school in Cambridge Mass, and Ann Arbor did indeed seem like a cow
town by contrast.  This was about thirty years ago.  I wonder if it
would seem that way if I were making the transition today.

Yes. Not long ago I sold a family home in New York City, and the buyer
flew to Detroit airport to get my signature on a paper, so I gave him
a little tour to Ann Arbor and back to the airport. He was astonished
at *farms* being so close to the city. When we crossed the Huron River,
he looked wide-eyed, and asked "Is that salt water?".

But I think not. At least not in the sense that I was struck in 1966.
Rane's anecdote seems to point up big city ignorance, rather than
any valid disparagement of Ann Arbor.

The US and much more of the world is a great deal more homogeneous now
than it was back then. Yes, there are "cows" nearby, but as a town
it lacks little today in contrast to what I perceived then as glaring
deficiencies.

My anecdote was to was not disparagement of Ann Arbor. It was supposed
to reflect possible responses of a big city person coming to a small
town like Ann Arbor for the first time. And probably remmers thought
that the Charles River was salt water: I am sure he never *tasted* it
;-).

Hmm. Well when I first saw Ann Arbor, I thought it was a "cow town" in a
disparaging sense (no amenities). That was what I thought you were saying too.
Now I no longer feel that way, and it's primarily because the place has
changed for the better.

 you aint seen a cow town until you've been to Croswell or Sandusky, MI.

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