By John Moore, Charles Cooke, and James Thurber The New Yorker, June 14 , 1930 P. 9When you go out of town you may leave your gold fish in the Loew's Lexington Theatre goldfish pool.
Opened in 1929, it was one of the "atmospheric" cinemas created by the designer John Eberson, meant to transport Bronx residents into a Baroque Italian garden, adorned with marble pillars, statues, tapestries, even a goldfish pool and a night sky with twinkling stars and moving clouds.
A decade ago a visitor might have found homebuilt prop planes buzzing around two primitive dirt landing strips; portly survivalists with guns 'n' ammo waiting for the apocalypse; motorcycles and dune buggies doing wheelies in the sand dunes; artists fashioning Gaudilike accretions of tile and concrete; tinkerers building sinks, showers, goldfish pools and other spring-fed amenities.
Waves on the goldfish pond.
Scattered among the park's pools, goldfish enclosures, rocky hills, weeping willows, pines, cypresses, bamboos, and flowers are pavilions, kiosks, and towers, which are typical of Chinese garden landscape.
By A. J. Liebling and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, September 19 , 1936P. 11 In the Roman Garden, in the south wing of the Metropolitan Museum, is a pool of goldfish, the Roman Garden is supposed to show the everyday surroundings of life in Ancient Rome, and goldfish weren't brought in from eastern Asia until much later.
Directly below the garden is a shallow, 12-foot-long reflecting pool, where goldfish dart just below the surface.
Hewitt quickly rose to become the producer-director of the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite," but he seems to have spent most of those early years cowboying around: impersonating sheriffs, stealing NBC's remote truck, and, for all we know, putting goldfish in Bill Paley's pool.
Let's take a day at the amusement park as an example, which is basically like dropping a goldfish in a piranha pool.
Around them are pools of goldfish.
Into this loony bin arrive a father and his attractive pigtailed daughter Eva (Chulpan Hamatova), who enjoys paddling around in the pool with a goldfish bowl.
