City College of New York locations

[gunhilltrain]

In this video created by an engineering graduate (class of 2015? I was 1977) I noted a number of locations I've used in stories. It feels like these events really happened, and I had to remind myself that they are only in my mind (and on the Lit pages).

He gets a number of things wrong, like the fact that half the campus used to be part of a Catholic women's' college. He shows a sepia-toned aerial photo of it which he incorrectly identifies. As an engineering guy, he must have spend most of his time in the northern end, while we liberal arts people were in the south end, the former Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart.

 

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It’s funny how sometimes everybody in a given area buys into a story about the areas history that ends up being bullshit. I had heard for decades that Naked City in Las Vegas, a frequent spot in my two series, got its nickname from the showgirls sunning themselves nude in their balconies. It was only during my research and review for my series that I found out that explanation was bullshit, lol.

The number of cool stories about places I’ve lived that have turned out to be apocryphal is long and distinguished.

 

[gunhilltrain]

It’s funny how sometimes everybody in a given area buys into a story about the areas history that ends up being bullshit. I had heard for decades that Naked City in Las Vegas, a frequent spot in my two series, got its nickname from the showgirls sunning themselves nude in their balconies. It was only during my research and review for my series that I found out that explanation was bullshit, lol.

The number of cool stories about places I’ve lived that have turned out to be apocryphal is long and distinguished.

He was there for six years, and I don't think he meant to give bullshit. People notice different things, and he was there decades after I attended. Most of the buildings left over from Manhattanville College, which were important to us, are gone. In the 1970s, the feel of the old Catholic institution was strong there, but not now.

The lost artifacts of history are forgotten by those who never saw them.

P.S.: Was that Naked City named after the movie and TV show, which were about cops, not strippers? I wonder how many people have heard of them.