Judge — June 1935 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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here are many reasons for the popularity of the new rooms at the Gotham. A lot of interesting things have hap- pened to this traditionally fine hotel in the last year. The rooms are still just as large and just as beautiful... but in a new way, a smartly modern way. You may have heard of the Alpine Grill (Switzerland on the Avenue) or the Ladies’ New Cocktail Bar... but see for yourself how much fine environment and living com- fort you can get at the Gotham for a very modest rental. Rates from $4.00. THE ALPINE GRILL Quaint as a Swiss chalet, a delightful rendezvous for luncheon, cocktails, dinner or after the theatre FIFTH AVENUE at SSth ST. NEW YORK CITY HIGH HAT (Continued from page 17) the only place in California where the Spanish architecture doesn’t look Jack- son Heightish, and finally (thank heaven) we dizzied into San Diego. From San Diego to the border of Lower California is 14 miles. This we did in a neat two hours flat. Then after a quick examination to see that I was taking in some money to spend, I was allowed to pass thru the officials and head for the pleasures of the Golden South Land. I had lost sight of my Iowa trail blazers and was off alone at last for infamy and fortune! Hurray for hell! was in my mind as I drove the two miles from the border across excellent dump land into the sacred portals of Tia Juana. Arriving on the Main Street of Tia Juana for a moment I thought I was either back in Hollywood on the Hoot Gibson lot or at a Coney Island that had gone Devil’s Gulch. For Tia Juana is nothing but a honky-tonk movie set which the tourists insist be kept alive. It is by far the most incredible place in the world. Nothing but one dance hall and saloon follows another. They are noisy, blarey, dirty, dismal, hokey, phony, punk, and turbid. They sell liquor that reeks of a 1926 Bowery . speakeasy and sport women made up like ladies of the oldest and most hon- orable profession. I found out the bar- tenders are chosen for their fierce ex- pression but are happily married broken’ down movie extras. I found that every- body knows all these things, will tell you they know them, will say that they never have a good time at Tia Juana but yet make several pilgrimages a year to it. Dancing in the honky tonks, play- ing the slot machines, drinking rotgut on a foreign soil and bumping into tour- ists from the Middle West brings out the repressed Tom Mix in them. It makes them rough, tough and swagger- ing for a few hours. Then they go off and have their hangovers back among the corn husks. Whoopee! I drove thru the cheap Coney Island- ism of this glamorously unglamorous deadeyedick town and found myself in a smart stucco realtor’s subdivision— the sort of place you see in Florida called Vista Miramar del Rey—you know—something with the unmistakable reek of Kew Gardens Spanish about it. Everything was lush, immaculately white, and there was a bit of green lawn here and there. I knew imme- diately I was in Agua Caliente, the Hot Frijole of the Southland. It was like a clean spot on Willie’s neck. I decided to cool off after the effects of my journey, so got a room, a swim in the circular pool and a lunch on the patio all for some reasonable sum— $4.50 I believe. 28 -.-at the CAVALIER! © Voried sports and ideal weather make the Cavalier the choice vacation spot of the Atlantic Coast. © Golf on two femous courses adjecent to the Hotel. Excellent stables ond miles of rambling bri- dle paths. Indoor salt wa- ter pool. Trap shooting. Real "Old Virginie" cook- ing. @ Easily accessible by mo- t train of boot, Direct connections and an un- lly pleasant overnight boat trip from New York. Write for illustrated folder, Sidney Banks, Mg. Dir. VIRGINIA BEACH VIRGINIA Lo | GH eT OFFICES AT 18 EAST 48th STREET Between Fifth and Madison Aves. 1 Block from Radio City IMMEDIATE POSSESSION 300 TO 4500 SQUARE FEET REDUCED RENTALS GRESHAM REALTY CO., INC. 18 EAST 48TH STREET, N.Y. C. TELEPHONE: W12-6200 TIME IS MONEY The convenience of this hotel saves you minutes and effort. The equipment is most modern, the Bis- marck being the newest hotel in the loop. The service is cheerful. The food is delicious. Rooms, $2.50 up. Write for book- let with map. comicbooks.com SS nent gad!