I think of the train station, the enormity of it, the beauty that was built in 1913 by Mr. Vanderbilt.”
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A great railroad terminal, an historic restaurant, acclaimed cuisine. All the bases are covered. Make Grand Central Terminal and the Oyster Bar an entry on your bucket list, to be checked off the next time you are “in the area.” Better yet, arrive by train. Luckin’s program, meanwhile, will fea- ture interviews with a variety of noted histo- rians, and include a special interview with colorful former New York City Mayor Ed- ward Koch (who passed away on the eve of Grand Central’s centennial celebration) re- garding the preservation of the building. The program, titled Grand Central: An American Treasure, will be released later this year with bonus footage, and can be pre- ordered by sending a check for $28.95 (post- paid) to RK Publishing, 621 Cascade Court, Golden, CO 80403-1581. For the Record:The Grand Central Oys- ter Bar & Restaurant, Lower Level, Grand Central Terminal, 89 East 42nd Street, New York, New York; 212/490-6650; www.oyster
barny.com Twain on Trains: As he did about so many things shaping the American charac- ter, Mark Twain early on (1872) had some- thing to say about dining in an early Pull- man dining car and retiring to a Pullman Palace sleeping car. In one of the entries in Roughing It, titled “Across the Continent,” Twain wrote: “At 4.20 P.M., Sunday, we rolled out of the station at Omaha, and started westward on our long jaunt. A couple of hours out, dinner was announced - an ‘event’ to those of us who had yet to experi- ence what it is to eat in one of Pullman’s ho- tels on wheels; so, stepping into the car next forward of our sleeping palace, we found our- selves in the dining car. It was a revelation to us, that first dinner on Sunday. And though we continued to dine for four days, and had as many breakfasts and suppers, our whole party never ceased to admire the perfection of the arrangements, and the marvelous results achieved.
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covered with snowy linen, and garnished with services of solid silver, Ethiop waiters, flitting about in spotless white, placed as by magic a repast at which Delmonico himself could have had no occasion to blush; and, in- deed, in some respects it would be hard for that distinguished chef to match our menu; for, in addition to all that ordinarily makes up a first-chop dinner, had we not our ante- lope steak (the gourmand who has not expe- rienced this — bah! what does he know of the feast of fat things?) our delicious moun- tain brook trout, and choice fruits and berries, and (sauce piquant and unpur- chasable! [sic]) our sweet-scented, appetite- compelling air of the prairies? You may de- pend upon it, we all did justice to the good things, and as we washed them down with bumpers of sparkling Krug, whilst we sped along at the rate of thirty miles an hour, agreed it was the fastest living we had ever experienced. (We beat that, however, two days afterward when we made twenty-seven miles in twenty-seven minutes, while our Champagne glasses filled to the brim spilled not a drop!) After dinner we repaired to our drawing room car, and, as it was Sabbath eve, intoned some of the grand old hymns — “Praise God from whom,”
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