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Sloan Kettering?
No, but thanks for kicking things off!
were you in manhattan?
Yes, Gary. I was.
Lenox Hill Hospital?
Hey, Scott! No, Scott!
By the way, how are your pants holding up these days?
Weill Cornell Medical?
The Women's Pavilion at the Harlem Hospital?
No, Gary; no, Debbie.
Harlem YMCA?
Nah, Debbie.
were you at a medical school?
No, Gary.
Before I ask my question on the WWI, I think you need to explain your statement about Scott's pants.
Were you at a hospital?
Clarification time!
The remark about Scott's pants wasn't a clue. It was a reference to this year's No Pants event, which (I gather) is scheduled for this afternoon.
I covered No Pants 2006 last January--here's one post (with illustration).
And no, I wasn't at a hospital.
I FORGOT THE NO PANTS EVENT WAS TODAY SO I AM SO GLAD YOU REMINDED ME. I HAD BETTER GO GET UNDRESSED.
So, were you at a library such as the main branch on 42nd?
I was not at such a library.
Make sure you take a camera!
are you in the subway?
The United Nations?
No, noonoo--not in the subway!
And Gary, the UN is a NO too--but you're the warmest so far!
UNICEF House on 44th between 1st and 2nd?
That's about the same, Gary.
Were you below 42nd?
No, Gary.
The United Nations Internation School?
The Ford Foundation?
Gary, you're a little warmer than Dolph here, but you've both got a way to go.
The headquarters of the Health and Human Services Union—aka 1199—on 43rd Street?
Oh, that's much better, Scott. In fact, you've got it!
I was outside the Martin Luther King, Jr. Labor Center, New York City headquarters of 1199SEIU, a union of pharmacists and other healthcare workers. The union's website currently includes this salute to Martin Luther King, Jr. The building, located at 310 West 43rd Street, is home to the Bread and Roses cultural project and an exhibition space called Gallery 1199--I haven't been inside, but I've seen this peculiar report. It looks like the gallery is currently home to the photo exhibit Cesar Chavez and The Farm Workers: Marching Through History.
I picked this location with King in mind, but I've also taken the opportunity to learn more about the mosaic in the recessed entryway to the building.
As you can see from the bonus image, the mosaic was "signed" by A. Refregier and dated 1970. This leads me to conclude that the creator of the mosaic was Anton Refregier.
A Russian immigrant, Refregier spent much of his life in New York. However, he is probably best known for a WPA-commissioned set of 27 murals he created for the Rincon Annex Post Office in San Francisco. Completed in 1948, the work depicts the history of Northern California including a 1934 waterfront strike that was violently suppressed. (Apparently the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union commemorates the strike by stopping West Coast work every July 5th.) During the McCarthy Era, politicians including California's Richard Nixon tried but failed to suppress the post office murals as being un-American. Successfully defended, the murals can now be seen at the Rincon Center. (Learn more about the work's history about halfway down this page.)
Coincidentally, Refregier work can now be seen in For the People: American Mural Drawings of the 1930s and 1940s, at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center of Vassar College. And another Refregier mural can be found at Riker's Penitentiary, where I was not.
You can read a colorful interview with Refregier here.
Here's how the 1934 strike panel looks.
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