Holus Bolus: “The Square”, Manhattan

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The Square

People gathering at night to enjoy restaurants, movies, theaters

All sorts of wonderful entertainment in one colorful square

A square that would become a celebration point for all America

The VE Day celebrations there would echo around the world

All this can only mean one square the Times Square

Before the New York Times built a new building on 43rd Street in 1904

To give the name Times Square it was known as Longacre Square

Earlier the turn of the century a somewhat dangerous place

A place where only villains and the like would dare enter

– Reginald Stanley Birch

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