Gosh...

PB is the champ on New York City lore. We had a nice little exchange about "Sweet Smell of Success," a truly great film with Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster set in the streets of midtown Manhattan. It opens with Tony reading the paper and sipping a fruit drink at a fast food place in Times Square. I wondered if it was Elpine or Benedict--chains that were big in the Fifties but had long since folded. PB, the champ, fished out video and stills that showed it was Elpine. Probably seems like obscure stuff to most, but to old New Yorkers like me (and not-so-old ones like PB), it's the Nectar of the Gods.