May Day 04/05/2006 - Key and Rose

“About nine o'clock of the same night two human beings came out of a cheap restaurant in Sixth Avenue” (page 74).

Fitzgerald never says what cross-street Key and Rose exit at Sixth Avenue, so I put it at Forty-fourth Street for no other reason than because I can. I probably could have picked a better cross-street; nothing is really going on there. I didn’t find any “cheap restaurants” (page 74) either.


There is nothing really visually spectacular about the remainder of Key and Rose’s journey to Delmonico’s aside from stopping at “a shoddy tablecloth restaurant between Fifth Avenue and Broadway” (page 78). I am using the Flatiron Building[1] as a visual reference for their walk. Although, Fitzgerald never actually mentions the Flatiron there is a pretty good chance that the two soldiers strolled past the building while looking for Key’s brother George.

[1] Originally named the Fuller Building, the Flatiron Building was completed in 1902 by Daniel Burnham (New York Times).
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. “May Day”. Tales of the Jazz Age. First Pine Street Books: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003.