08/04/2006 - Maps (Part 4)

Here is part four in what seems to be a never-ending battle against time. The following is the first series of events outlined in chapters one and two, a closer look at Sterrett and Dean’s early morning walk. The map contains these points of interest from right to left,
1. Yale Club (50 Vanderbilt Avenue) - “In the Yale Club they met a group of their former classmates who greeted the visiting Dean vociferously” (page 71).
2. The Biltmore Hotel (43rd Street and Madison Avenue)
3. Rivers’ Brothers (Brooks’ Brothers) – “At four, to his relief, Dean rosed and announced that he was going over to Rivers Brothers to buy some collars and ties” (page 70).
4. 44th Street and Fifth Avenue - “Fifth Avenue and Forty-fourth Street swarmed with the noon crowd” (page 70).
It just dawned on me that these two never set foot in Delmonico’s together, in fact it could be argued that the two never even saw each other at the party. The last post will be another smll one: Rose and Key’s search for George and a glimpse of what Sterrett calls home, East 27th Street.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. “May Day”. Tales of the Jazz Age. First Pine Street Books: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003.
Atlas of the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York. Plate 73. Map. New York: Bromley. 1916.