“Fifteen years before this could have been my friends and me up on Amsterdam Avenue. Our treasured baseball cards. We’d flip for them, scale them against the wall, count them, swap them, hoard them, dog -eared bulging in our pockets. But now in the brave new post war world the players (Mickey Mantle here ?) are found in TV Screens and in color.
It’s a serious boy’s business, the cards,
not for girls, but the girls could blow soap bubbles."
~ William Klein
(1926-2022)
Yes for sure Bill was like these NY street urchins. Cocky and street wise at any early age.
It was good training for the life that was to come, an anarchic and questioning approach to authority and convention. A “why not?” energetic and" kick the doors down and let me in" creative passion. Watch out everyone.