#27 Radio City Music Hall

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2008

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Behind the glamour of New York's greatest stage, Radio City Music Hall is a story involving a toothpaste tube designer, an allergy to Brazil nuts, a hydraulic lift protected from the Nazis, and a grandstanding but forgotten man by the name of Roxy. PLUS: The Bowery Boys go backstage (figuratively) with the Rockettes. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 27 of The Bowery Boys
0:02.7	Radio City Music Hall and The Rockets
0:05.4	Hey, it's The Bowery Boys!
0:07.0	Hey!
0:09.0	The Bowery Boys is brought to you by EuroChipo.com
0:12.8	EuroChipo editors personally visit and review the best budget hotels in Europe
0:17.6	Now with hotels in New York City, on the web at EuroChipo.com
0:22.2	Hello there and welcome to The Bowery Boys, my name is Greg Young
0:25.0	And I'm Tom Myers
0:26.2	And we are once again, we're The Bowery Boys, we are
0:29.2	And Tom's back
0:30.2	Thank you, just in time to celebrate Christmas in New York City
0:34.2	We don't normally date our podcasts, you may have noticed
0:37.2	But we can't get around this Christmas thing, we caught it, didn't we?
0:41.2	You know, you'd hate to get the Christmas fear, nothing like Christmas in New York
0:45.2	And especially the centerpiece of it, Radio City Music Hall and their Christmas spectacular
0:51.2	And those wacky, long-legged Rockets
0:55.2	High-kicking tap-dancing Rockets
0:57.2	So we've got a lot of fun little details of all those things for you, it's
1:02.2	And this is not a paid advertorial, by the way
1:05.2	We are telling the backstory of Radio City Music Hall
1:08.2	We're telling some details they may not want you to know about Radio City Music
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