Tales of Times Square

by Friedman, Josh Alan

• ISBN13: 9781932595284
• ISBN10: 1932595287
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-16
• Publisher: Feral House

Summary

This classic account of the sleazy, pre-Disneyfield era of Times Square is now the subject of a documentary film of the same name. Tales of Times Square returns to print with seven new chapters, including "The Strikeout King," "God's Gift to Women" and "Memories of Screw." Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Yesterday's Cheers Have a Very Short Echo	p. xvii
After the Death of Burlesque
A Schitzy Girl is Like a Melody	p. 1
Rave Up!	p. 13
Uncle Lou's Scrapbook	p. 19
Season's Greetings from Long Jean Silver	p. 23
Old Flesh Agents	p. 26
Tell all the Gang on 42nd Street!
The Princess of 42nd Street	p. 33
The Crystal Ball of 42nd Street	p. 36
Dancing on the Frying Pan	p. 39
Pee Wee Is Not a Happy Man	p. 42
Lowdown
Inside the Peeps	p. 45
The Peep Machine	p. 50
The Peep History	p. 56
In Search of the Longest Stiletto	p. 64
For the Record!
Queen of the Gang-Bang	p. 67
Pecker Full of Miracles	p. 75
The Saviors
Father Rappleyea's Parish	p. 102
Cops and Skells	p. 107
The Big Cleanup	p. 114
Times Square or Bust	p. 123
Times Square's Good Shepherd	p. 127
Pross and Pimps	p. 132
Castrate the Bastards!	p. 135
A Loner's Paradise
Save Our 42nd Street	p. 139
Twenty-Four Hours On the Square	p. 143
Victory's Defeat	p. 144
Skell's Nutrition	p. 146
If Marquees Could Talk	p. 149
Remembering Hubie's	p. 151
Twenty-Four Hours On the Square (Part II)	p. 154
Hell's Shoeshine Stands	p. 155
Liz Dumps Dick for Mort Fineshriber	p. 157
The Ol' In And Out	p. 159
Twenty-Four Hours On the Square (Part III): Greatest of Grease	p. 160
Riese's Leases	p. 164
Feelings	p. 167
Phata Section	p. 171
When Sex Was Dirty
God's Gift to Women	p. 187
The Strikeout King	p. 202
Babes on Broadway	p. 247
I Just Met a Girl Named Maria	p. 258
Memories of Screw	p. 260
The Rise and Fall of Al Goldstein	p. 267
Afterword: I Gave My Regards to Broadway	p. 285
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