But at one dingy pizza parlor, the party hadn't stopped yet.
Couples listen to classical music and play parlor games at parties.
"Meet me in the parlor" is not typically party talk, at least not in 21st-century Manhattan.
Vega, a San Bruno resident who worked at a funeral parlor, liked to host parties with underground musicians and was always up for the odd event like a midnight concert on the beach.
Now that there was a surplus to sample — massage parlors and swingers' parties — he wanted to feast.
Sales grew steadily through the decades and Ms. Johnson's runway shows, which riffed on playful themes like "The Little Rascals" and '50s beauty parlors, were whimsical parties amid the seriousness of Fashion Week.
They are the ones who have happily attended the long succession of bals masqués, al-fresco fêtes, parties to inaugurate new parlor games or parlor personalities, dinners, dances, cocktail and tea parties which she has given at her Villa Trianon, or in her Paris flat, or at the Paris Ritz, which is a second home, or on the Riviera, where she generally summers.
These parties, also called "parlor socials", were attended by members of the working class who were unable to afford to go to Harlem's more expensive clubs.
That week, her friends on the tour threw her a retirement party at a pizza parlor near the golf course.
Travelling from Springfield to New York, a friend of ours had a parlor-car seat near a family party of five-father, mother, son and daughter, and a lady who could have been the children's aunt.
By Arthur Bartlett The New Yorker, July 9, 1938 P. 53 A man who disliked parlor games was roped in on a party, the hostess proposed The Game.
