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...Sunday stroll down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (but everybody still calls it 125th Street) between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) takes the visitor past an armory of corrugated metal doors drawn protectively over shop facades. But on each of these doors a street genius named Franco has painted Pop-art murals appropriate to the goods sold inside: an underwater paradise for the fish shop, a spangled Eiffel Tower for the travel agency, a chain- laden Mr. T for the jewelry store. Midblock stands the legendary Apollo Theater, which brings Harlem...
...edition in my house, however, only went up to the year 1965. So, upon going to Harvard, where I figured it would be even more useful to have a superficial knowledge of cultural history, I decided to get a new, updated Bartlett's: the "Fifteenth and 125th Anniversary Edition...
Ronald Harmon Brown developed his social skills at a most unlikely place: the once famous Theresa Hotel on 125th Street in Harlem, where he grew up. His father was the manager, a celebrated fixture in the community. His mother was socially prominent. Ron was their only child. The hotel was alive with entertainers, politicians, doctors, lawyers and sports heroes, black and white...
...photographed with Ron ("I immediately decided I wanted to become a Democrat," he jokes). Joe Louis, a frequent guest, gave him a pair of his boxing gloves. From the roof of the Theresa, 13 floors high, Ron and his friends would gaze out on the excitement of 125th Street -- the Apollo Theater, the street-corner orators, the hustlers -- and the poverty beyond...
...curious example of violence spilling over from the arena into the streets, Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson and one of his earliest ring conquests staged an impromptu rematch in New York City around 4:30 a.m. outside a 125th Street haberdashery that boasts a formidable clientele. Anyone purchasing a necktie at that hour better at least have been the champion of the Pacific fleet. After giving Mitch ("Blood") Green a Carmen Basilio facial, crumpling one of his licensed hands in the process, Tyson momentarily faced charges brought not by the law but by Green. They were eventually dropped...