April 19, 2024
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Yorkville, known today as the “Upper East Side” of New York City stretches from the East River to Third Avenue. From time-to-time every American neighborhood experiences growing-pains. History changes everything – even the way the “old-neighborhood” is remembered.
Who could possibly think that a woman would look good in a barrel? It’s a preposterous idea, but comics have put pretty girls in barrels to sell products and even protest taxes. Then there is the story of Annie Taylor. What she did in a barrel was no laughing matter.