[Sca-cooks] Kitchen Scene by Campi

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 11:22 AM 1/2/03 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I wonder if, in the movie "The Gangs of New York" (based allegedly
>but not in any recognizable fact on Herbert Asbury's fascinating
>non-fiction account of an era of which I've often thought of doing
>recreation), the streets of downtown Manhattan (there being no uptown
>Manhattan worth speaking of at the time) are filled a foot deep with
>a mudlike amalgam of trash, wet ashes, horse manure, raw sewage and
>other, less savory products?

Dunno. But the streets of Washington DC were known for being similarly
er... decorated for most of the century. Apaprently one of Mary Todd
Lincoln's many complaints about the town.

'Lainie
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