Saturday, October 10, 2009

Mazie Phillips-Gordon: The Queen Of The Bowery, Part 1

First of a series about Mazie from the Knickerbocker Village Blog

I found the obituary of the legendary Mazie of KV. There's a chapter devoted to Mazie in Joseph Mitchell's, "Up In The Old Hotel"
Read this doc on Scribd: maizie

3 comments:

  1. knew mazie very well i owned a florist shop on madison st went to the venice movie house almost every week mazie also owned a few rides in coney island she had a heart as big as herself was a very well person in the lower east side

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  2. According to Mitchell, she was "bosomy."

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  3. Mazie was one of the greatest persons ever to walk on the face of the earth. She had a heart of gold. All the people on the lower east side knew her and her generosity

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