Fischer spent his childhood on the most splendid street in Budapest: Andrássy Avenue, a wide boulevard patterned on the Champs-Élysées.
Opened in 1998, the splendid Thomas Street venue has in the past played host to musicians such as Neil Young, Al Green and Bob Dylan.
Now he has moved into the gallery business, opening up a temporary space in a splendid 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-footer G. Fox building in downtown Hartford.
The city still retains a medieval charm, which is evident in its narrow streets, splendid forts and palaces, opulent havelis and bazaars.
Its location as the first anchorage for galleons billowing back from the new world laden with gold, silver and spices made the city prosperous; its merchants and priests built themselves the splendid palaces and elegant streets that make Angra today a Unesco world heritage centre.
The Catholics too had their mutual aid societies, such as the Knights of Columbanus, but the masons, with headquarters in a splendid building in Molesworth Street, not far from Bill Beckett's office, still reigned supreme.
A splendid panorama from Front Street across to the neighboring islands of Molokai and Lanai is now frequently broken by the spectacle of tourists flying through the air on parasails towed by speedboats at $35 a ride.
Formerly the city's main street, many of Lajos Kossuth Street's once splendid baroque buildings are now boarded up or have become slum dwellings.
It has a working waterfront, even if there hasn't been much work lately, and streets full of splendid Victorian houses that rise from downtown in a way that is likely to reward a casual glance out the kitchen window with a magnificent view of the river and a couple of freighters and the hills of Washington State on the northern bank.
I grew up in Highbridge, in a fourth-floor apartment on 170th Street with a splendid view of the bridge.
