Eldergays Tell me about Harlem

You'll have to ask Cole Porter and Alexander Woollcott.

It had a bunch of globe trotters back then, OP

[quote]We’re race relations better?

Oh, dear.

There is a rose in Spanish Harlem, OP.

Scored more BBC in the Bronx.

I miss all the hubcaps I lost in Harlem.

R6 Did you present hole during muggings? That’s so hot.

uh, gee, this isn’t at all racist now, is it??

I think Harlem has a f ascinating history. I watched that movie PAssing, shot in Black and White and it gave you a glimpse of the Black MIddle Class lifestyle in Harlem back in the day.

R4 yes there sure is.

Thanks for posting. More hot stories please.

Where are my New Yorkers at?

R10 someone else recorded the song and made it a hit before Aretha, but I cannot remember who. But I remember my mother playing it.

R13 Spanish Harlem was originally performed by Ben E King, most famously known for Stand By Me.

Harlem was Jewish/Italian until the early 1900s, when Southern blacks began migrating north en masse due to segregation laws and settled there.

"Uptown" - the Crystals

we all took the train

I associate the old Harlem with stories about the Harlem Renaissance, Strivers Row, and Langston Hughes, Adam Clayton Powell and Hazel Scott. During Prohibition there was the Cotton Club and all the gangsters. Lots of good stories.

I got raped in Harlem.

R19 was it fun?

No, r20, it wasn't fun. He put a gun to my head and told me he would kill me if I didn't suck his cock. So I sucked his cock. He was ugly. He was smelly. I sucked it anyway.

It didn't become a defining, life-ruining moment in my life, though. This past week, after the Danny Masterson sentencing, I've gone back and forth on whether I would have wanted my rapist to go to jail for ten years. I still don't know. I can make the case either way.

R21 Too bad this didn't happen to you. 😂

Sorry to be flippant, but I always think of that whenever I hear of someone being robbed at gunpoint.

I guess because I watched CLUELESS as a wee child and was my first exposure to mugging.

r22 is why I wish I hadn't bothered to post r21. Why is it so many of you react that way? Do you lie so often, you imagine lying to be other people's default setting? I wish what you said were true, r22. Unfortunately, I really did get raped at gunpoint, December 26, 1976.