It wasn’t something we’d planned on, but in wanting to provide my wife some quiet time with which to catch up on some work, I volunteered to take the kids to Central Park for a few hours this afternoon. We’d initially been under the impression that Tropical Storm Hermine was going to dump a load of inclement weather on us, but when that never happened, the Park seemed like the perfect destination for a day with nothing else to do.
Along the way, of course, I couldn’t stop myself from staging a few photo replications. I remembered an old photo of the Ramones sitting at the foot of the statue of William Tecumseh Sherman at 59th and Fifth (across from the Plaza). Despite a plague of tourists, we managed to more or less replicate the photo.
Once in the Park, we looped around the The Pond until we got to the foot of the steps that lead back up to the drive that empties out at 59th and Sixth Avenue, and I remembered a post Bob Egan of PopSpots had put up about the Grateful Dead in this very spot. As much as I harbor absolutely zero affinity for the music or the mythos of the Dead, i couldn’t resist…..
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