New Year’s Eve 1924
No ticklers allowed.
New Year’s Eve 1923
People drinking at home or in private dining rooms in hotels.
New Year’s Eve 1922
At the Hotel Astor with Florence Foster Jenkins.
Nancy New Year’s Eve
Olivia Jaimes continues the Ernie Bushmiller tradition of taking holidays off.
New Year’s Eve 1921
Dry sleuths in the road houses.
New Year’s Eve 1920
In hotels, no serving, only looking the other way. In other establishments, a different approach.
Holiday wars
They’re saying “Happy New Year” again!
New Year’s Eve 1919
Prohibition in 1919? Yes and no.
A Robinson New Year’s Eve
From Michelle Obama’s book Becoming.
New Year’s Eve 1918
I would have imagined that the first New Year’s Eve to follow the end of the Great War was noisy. But no.
New Year’s Eve’s morning
For tykes: New Year’s Eve at noon.
New Year’s Eve 1917
The high and low temperatures for December 31, 1917, as recorded in Central Park: 6°, -7°.
Fake New Year’s Eve 1916
“New York Rejects a Fake New Year’s. Apathy Marks the Slim Crowds That Gather for a Cold-Storage Celebration.”
New Year’s Eve 1916
“1917, in on Tiptoes, Keeps the Sabbath. Hardly a Horn to Herald Glad New Year’s Arrival in the Great Cabaret Belt.”
A poem for the day
Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush.”
New Year’s Eve 1915
What‘s a “fez horn”?
New Year’s Eve 1914
“The whole town was awake.”
New Year’s Eve 1913
Dancing.
New Year’s Eve 1911
From the New York Times.
A poem for New Year's Eve
By John Clare
Happy New Year
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