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Atres Artes, v. 1, issue 3, 1946
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Fantasy Article WE GO TO NEW YORK Harold W. Cheney, Jr. Ever since we became active fans, a little over a year ago, we had been set on making a trip to New York. New York that golden dream where all the top fans lived, where back issues of any mag you wanted were to be gotten. New York, 216 miles from Little Falls, near enough to make it seem a real place, far away enough to make it impossible to make a one day trip. The different holidays came and went, but New York was still a dream to look forward to. Then came 1946. We were expecting our income tax refund. It was a sizable sum. We also had a few bonds. Then we learned that a fan we had been corresponding with, Fred Rowland was also planning to go to New York. He was planning on going for a week around Easter. Hoping and praying for our income tax refund to come in time we stood waiting. At last, 3 days before we were going it came. This made the trip positive. We sent a special delivery letter to our uncle who lives in Brooklyn. Could he accommodate us for a few days? He phoned the next day saying that he had a fellow bunking with him but that he'd try to find a cheap hotel. Sunday came. He phoned -- no luck. Still undaunted our father phoned the New York branch of the place where he works and in true brotherhood spirit they came through. We managed to get a cheap roon at the Commodore -- Wednesday night we took the 9 o'clock train. And after a two hour stop-over (at midnight) in Albany and a sleepless night huddled in a day-coach we pulled into Grand Central Terminal at 5:15 in the morning. At the hotel we were informed that we couldn't check in until noon. We then checked our bag and sat forth upon the Streets of New York for the first time in four years. We got the addresses of the back-ish stores out of a phone book and figured them out on a map. Most of them were on 6th ave. We had four long hours until we could go into those wonderful places of enchantment. When we did we were sorely disappointed. The results were sorely discouraging. Them we went to Sharon's down on 14th Ave. While we were there the time came for us to phone our uncle. This we did then we met him and went up to check in at the hotel. That night we phoned Unger and Wollheim. We agreed to have lunch the next day with Wollheim and visit Unger's home that evening. At 13:30 the next day (Friday) we met Wollheim at the place where he worked, Ace Magazines. We walked a few blocks 'till we came to a nice looking restaurant. There we ate and talked for an hour and a half when we had to leave to meet our uncle. We snapped his pic but it was too dark out and it didn't turn out any good. After a swell afternoon with our uncle we started out towards Unger's place. Our uncle rode part way until our paths came to the cross roads. Then we proceeded to get lost in that maze that is Brooklyn. An hour later we stumbled upon Ungers place, an apartment house. Upon entering his flat we gasped in astonishment at the mags piled high along the walls. For the next few hours we were content just to look through them. Then Johnny Nitka and Eddie ___________ came in, and some books were traded and a lot of talking done. We just mostly sat and listened. That night we got Searle's phone number and the directions out to his place. Next morning we phoned and agreed to go up to his place that noon. That we did and after an hour ride we found his beautiful home on 235th St. There we talked fantasy and I ogled over his collection, looking at those first Weird Tales. He asked me to go over the last Fantasy Commentator with him, giving my opinion of each of the articles, etc. It seems as though for some strange reason hardly and of his readers write in their opinion; a strange thing for a fanzine! Our visit was cut short, this time because he had to leave to keep an appointment. Luck was again against us in the matter of pics. This pic came out fairly good but not good enough to warrant additional PRINTS being made for this article. We had planned on having about four PAGE 6
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Fantasy Article WE GO TO NEW YORK Harold W. Cheney, Jr. Ever since we became active fans, a little over a year ago, we had been set on making a trip to New York. New York that golden dream where all the top fans lived, where back issues of any mag you wanted were to be gotten. New York, 216 miles from Little Falls, near enough to make it seem a real place, far away enough to make it impossible to make a one day trip. The different holidays came and went, but New York was still a dream to look forward to. Then came 1946. We were expecting our income tax refund. It was a sizable sum. We also had a few bonds. Then we learned that a fan we had been corresponding with, Fred Rowland was also planning to go to New York. He was planning on going for a week around Easter. Hoping and praying for our income tax refund to come in time we stood waiting. At last, 3 days before we were going it came. This made the trip positive. We sent a special delivery letter to our uncle who lives in Brooklyn. Could he accommodate us for a few days? He phoned the next day saying that he had a fellow bunking with him but that he'd try to find a cheap hotel. Sunday came. He phoned -- no luck. Still undaunted our father phoned the New York branch of the place where he works and in true brotherhood spirit they came through. We managed to get a cheap roon at the Commodore -- Wednesday night we took the 9 o'clock train. And after a two hour stop-over (at midnight) in Albany and a sleepless night huddled in a day-coach we pulled into Grand Central Terminal at 5:15 in the morning. At the hotel we were informed that we couldn't check in until noon. We then checked our bag and sat forth upon the Streets of New York for the first time in four years. We got the addresses of the back-ish stores out of a phone book and figured them out on a map. Most of them were on 6th ave. We had four long hours until we could go into those wonderful places of enchantment. When we did we were sorely disappointed. The results were sorely discouraging. Them we went to Sharon's down on 14th Ave. While we were there the time came for us to phone our uncle. This we did then we met him and went up to check in at the hotel. That night we phoned Unger and Wollheim. We agreed to have lunch the next day with Wollheim and visit Unger's home that evening. At 13:30 the next day (Friday) we met Wollheim at the place where he worked, Ace Magazines. We walked a few blocks 'till we came to a nice looking restaurant. There we ate and talked for an hour and a half when we had to leave to meet our uncle. We snapped his pic but it was too dark out and it didn't turn out any good. After a swell afternoon with our uncle we started out towards Unger's place. Our uncle rode part way until our paths came to the cross roads. Then we proceeded to get lost in that maze that is Brooklyn. An hour later we stumbled upon Ungers place, an apartment house. Upon entering his flat we gasped in astonishment at the mags piled high along the walls. For the next few hours we were content just to look through them. Then Johnny Nitka and Eddie ___________ came in, and some books were traded and a lot of talking done. We just mostly sat and listened. That night we got Searle's phone number and the directions out to his place. Next morning we phoned and agreed to go up to his place that noon. That we did and after an hour ride we found his beautiful home on 235th St. There we talked fantasy and I ogled over his collection, looking at those first Weird Tales. He asked me to go over the last Fantasy Commentator with him, giving my opinion of each of the articles, etc. It seems as though for some strange reason hardly and of his readers write in their opinion; a strange thing for a fanzine! Our visit was cut short, this time because he had to leave to keep an appointment. Luck was again against us in the matter of pics. This pic came out fairly good but not good enough to warrant additional PRINTS being made for this article. We had planned on having about four PAGE 6
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