When I was a teenager and ran away from home, I chose to go to the Greenwich Library. I knew I could spend hours listening to the newest record albums (remember those?), peruse the latest magazines, check out artwork in the gallery upstairs and feed my brain-cells while hiding from my parents.
Back in the early 1970′s, Greenwich Library was a free source for everything you needed to know -a type of Google before the internet was invented by Al Gore. And it was a valuable source for art-film aficionados, especially those of the High School variety with no money but lots of free Fridays. Free Friday Night Films were always at the top of “where to take your date” list.
And so it remains. The following is from the Greenwich Library Friday Film website. This is just the beginning of a marvelous series:
LOVERS AND LOLLIPOPS (1956)
Directed by Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin. With Lori March, Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Cathy Dunn. A jewel of a film and a time capsule trip to New York the way it once was. Filmed at various locations like Macy’s Toy Store, Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art, Central Park, the Bronx Zoo, Liberty Island, Playland in Rye, and Windmill Farm in Armonk. Tells the story of the romance of a widowed fashion model and an engineer, and how their relationship is affected by her daughter. But more than that it shows a magical city that now exists only in memory. 82 min.
Admission to the Friends Friday Films is free
This series is made available by your membership contributions
Show time is Friday, October 2nd, 2009, 8 p.m. Doors open at 7:40 p.m.
