GRAND CENTRAL STATION!
That was enough for me to want to live in New York when I was ten years old. And I DID for several years, later on!
Jim Stokes 
Starter of this subject: j jackson
Last post in this subject: 12/30/2000
Messages in this subject: 4
| j jackson | 12/30/2000 4 replies |
| Looking for sound byte of original lead-in to "Grand Central Station" : "As a bullet seeks its target, shining rails from every part of theis country are aimed at.........." |
| Ted Hering | 1/4/2001 2 replies |
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I believe this clip is used on the LP compilation "Themes Like Old Times." Volume 2?
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| Jim Stokes | 1/4/2001 1 replies |
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That was a neat show. It came on the air in eastern South Dakota at noon on Saturday. The introduction went something like the train hurtling down the tracks from the weat. It thunders down on the shore of the Hudson River. Past the tenements. And (SFX-PSSSSHHHH)comes to a stop at
GRAND CENTRAL STATION! That was enough for me to want to live in New York when I was ten years old. And I DID for several years, later on! Jim Stokes |
| j jackson | 1/6/2001 0 replies |
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I remember a little more of the intro......
"As a bullet seeks its target, shining rails frome very part of this great country are aimed at Grand Central Station...... ........ flash briefly past the.....of tenement houses south of....streeet, dive with a roar into the 2 1/2 mile tunnel beneath the glitter and swank of Park Avenue, and then: Grand Central Station, crossroads of a million private lives, gigantic stage on which are played a thousand dramas daily. Thanks |
| jed dimatteo | 1/6/2001 0 replies |
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..... mile tunnel...... ......... (at the end) Crossroads of a million private lives .......... "
Some of the stories picked up at the station but a few took place on the train. There was a certain romance that was associated with train rides - I related to that and recalled going on train trips with my parents .... sleeping and eating on trains etc., and I loved when the Grand Central Station stories took advantage of that venue. Perhaps my favorite story was one such tale - wherein the train barber was going to slip with his razor to kill a mobster who was riding on the train and had been responsible for the barber's child's death. In the end, the mobster was the victim of a hit before the little barber was to take his revenge. That was another thing in those days.... there was a broadcast code where no crime could go unpunished. |