Woodstock High School - Eureka Yearbook (Bryant Pond, ME)

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 a • %'a -' On Sunday evening, April 19, six Senior girls, with Mrs Bessie House as chaperone, started for Portland in cars. At 8:30 vre met Standish High School at Union Station and took a chartered Paine Central Bus to New York with then. We stopped for lunch at a restaurant about 2 a.m., and arrived at the Hotel New Yorker about 5:30 in the morning. ’To got settled in our rooms and at 9 o'clock we started a tour through Chinatown, downtown New York and the . 'Bowery. We ended up at the dock to take the boat to the Statue of Liberty, but because of a little mistake in tickets we couldn't take this tour until later. Wc had to take a subway back to the Hotel, and then we got lost for the first time. Some of us got off at the wrong stopj and when the others got off two stops later and tried to go back to meet the others we passed them on a different subway. I don't think any of us realize how we ever net again, which was on Broadway. That first night'vre vrent to a T V broadcast, a Quiz show conducted by John Reed ring. Then, as all of us were very sleepy, vre went back to the Hotel again. Tuesday morning vre felt very refreshed and I'm sure all felt more like seeing things. At 9:30 wc wont to Radio City Music Hall. I think this was the most memorable and the most enjoyed place vre went. Yfe saw BY the Light of the Silvery Moon , with Doris Day and Gordon MacRae. Also there was a wonderful stage show, and the Rockcttcs dancing. This lasted quite late into the afternoon. In the evening we vrent to a three-dimension movie, Tho House of wax . After it there was a stage show with Eddie FisherI Y cdncsday morning we vrent to the Statue of Liberty. Most of us went to the top of the Statue, but Jean Carini and Bessie House got sick climbing and vrent back. In the afternoon wc went to the top of the Empire State Building, whore vre had our voices recorded and listened to a lecture telling about the different buildings vre could see. In the evening vre vrent to an Ice Rcvievr and a movie Call Me Madame . We vre re all so tired vre didn't stay to sec much of the movie. Thursday wc had all day free to go shopping. This vre certainly enjoyed. At 11:30 vre started for home. We stopped in Massachusetts for breakfast and reached Portland at 8 o'clock in the morning, Bellmont House and Robort Farrington met us there. V r ' „ We had a very enjoyable trip a§d saw mpy,'things vrhich amazed us in New York, but vre were all very glad to get hdme 1 EmCF Sf a %