Episode 451 of the Bowery Boys, The New Yorker magazine, The Talk of the Town for 100 years.

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Hi there, welcome to the Bowery Boys.

This is Greg Young.

And this is Tom Myers.

And today we're continuing with the theme that we started in our last episode.

100th anniversaries that involve great writers and stories that are told with a big dose of glam, because today we are turning our attention to the New Yorker magazine.

Yeah, now, not New York Magazine, which was another classic publication, and one that started in 1968. So like a baby, a babe in

swaddling newsprint compared to our subject today, which is the New Yorker, one of the most

famous magazines in the world, and a publication that debuted on February 21st, 1925.

And even though issues of the magazine today are often quite contemporary in content and tone,

this is a magazine that still holds on to just a little bit of its jazz age origins.

Yeah, and it was born in 1920s, New York.

Okay, so just imagine, Greg,

flipping through the pages of those early New Yorkers

while sitting in a speakeasy,

you know, chortling over something amusing

that was in the talk of the town

or, like, guffawing over a witty cartoon. This happened,

Greg, in speak-easies. Yes, so much guffawing in those speak-easies over your poisonous wood-green

alcohol. But anyway, we both love the New Yorker, partially for the articles, of course, and the

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