Summer at Tiffany
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Do you remember the best summer of your life? New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and Marty Garrett arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as pages at Tiffany & Co., becoming the first women to ever work on the sales floor. Hart takes us back to the magical time when she and Marty rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous, pinched pennies to eat at the Automat, and danced away their weekends with dashing midshipmen. Between being dazzled by Judy Garland's honeymoon visit to Tiffany, celebrating VJ Day in Times Square, and mingling with Café society, she fell in love, made important decisions that would change her future, and created the remarkable memories she now shares with all of us.
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Simply delightful! As a 20-something I lived in NYC for 7 years and love to read about the adventures others had in different eras. Marjorie Hart seems to have excellent recall, as does her former NYC roommate who has been her best friend since college. Innocent stories, exciting adventures, once in a lifetime experiences. The neatest part was that Hart wrote this some 60 years later yet was able to find many of the people she knew from back in the day. Her enthusiasm is catchy. Read this in one afternoon.
Summer at Tiffany is Marjorie Hart's story of the greatest summer of her life, the summer of 1945, when she and a friend traveled to New York City and worked for twelve weeks at Tiffany. Marjorie's story is full of the joy and wonder she felt while being in the big city.
