[78-L] Fw: [bens-blues-basement] Tin Pan Alley faces demolition

[Steven C. Barr]

This looks more suited to 78-L...?!
...stevenc
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lewis Ward" <bluesbangler at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Ben's Blues Basement" <bens-blues-basement at yahoogroups.com
> November 9, 2008
> Historic Tin Pan Alley in jeopardy
>
> BY VERENA DOBNIK
> ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
> NEW YORK -- A group of New Yorkers is fighting to save Tin Pan Alley, home 
> to publishers of some of the catchiest American tunes -- from "God Bless 
> America" and "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" to "Give My Regards to 
> Broadway."
>
> In a half-dozen 19th-Century buildings on Manhattan's West 28th St., the 
> music of Irving Berlin, Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, George M. Cohan and 
> other greats was born.
>
> The buildings were put up for sale earlier this fall for $44 million, with 
> plans to replace them with a high-rise. The construction plan fell through 
> amid the turmoil in the economy, but the possibility of losing the 
> historic block hastened efforts to push for landmark status for Tin Pan 
> Alley.
>
> A commission is "researching the history of the buildings and reviewing 
> whether they'd be eligible for landmark designation," said Lisi de 
> Bourbon, a spokeswoman for New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission.
>
>>From the late 1880s to the mid-1950s, the careers of songwriters were 
>>launched from the buildings at 45, 47, 49, 51, 53 and 55 West 28th. The 
>>windows of music companies broadcast a cacophony of competing piano 
>>sounds, earning the area the nickname Tin Pan Alley, to describe what one 
>>journalist said sounded like pounding on tin pans.
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