My name is Harold Slappy. I am 91 years of age. I have lived here all of my life, and to me this is the Garden of Eden, for me, New York.

We used to go to the Savoy Ballroom every Saturday and stay there until Monday morning. We were youngsters and they adopted us. Saturday, stay Saturday afternoon matinee, Saturday night, Sunday matinee, listening to Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, uh Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, all of em. At the time we had Prohibition in New York, and we always managed to get a little extra libation from uh the corner drug store. We'd go in and a little bottle of half and half, half wine and half gin, go up to the Savoy, get the most comfortable chairs, sit down, watch em dance and looking at the pretty girls. They had about ten hostesses there. If you paid 25 cents you could dance two sets with them. And we used to save up our nickels and dimes and give it to our favorite hostess and spend the night dancing with her (laughing). And trying to make love to her but they'd say, Come back in ten years when you grow up. (laughing) Oh yeah.