• - • / '. cut-o.ut 0011book,,09slgned by saneone with the delightful name of Queen Holden. It costs $8.95, and a funny Beaver Cleaver hat with a twi~y-twirly on top costs $11 :50. I left Ken's fQr Keru,eth Cole, where I admired a pair of canoe-shaped black patent leather pumps, for $100, and some suede boots, in yellow, forest green, red or black, for $98. I was just about through with Columbus Avenue by then. I got on my bicycle and cruised the remaining blocks, catching here and there a glimpse of the neighborhoods pre-'80s stores like Supreme Hardware and Frank's Hairstyling, an old barbershop where Frank (I presume) glared at me resentfully when I a~d him how much he charged. He had a big wall clock, a marble counter and a fun floral curtain at : the back, but he didn't find me as charming as.! found him, and he stared at my patented ACT UP crew cut and said suspiciously, "Ten dollars 'n' up," and pointed at the clock. It was 5 pm. I bicycled home to the East Village through the midtown rush-hour traffic. . - Mynext.big e}(cursion was Christopher Street on another sunny day, late in the afternoon, with the sun melting slowly into Jersey and casting shadows on the brownstone and red brick facades of the West Village. I started at the foot of Christopher;Street at the Hudson River, ..where aline.Of wqterfront graffiti, "Uve to Be Legendary,~. is sprayed in yellow, blue and red across a concrete barrier. At the Spy Shop, next to Bailey House, I contemplated surveillanCe and coonter-surveillance equipment useful accessories for the activist llano who lives in fear of FBI • • infiltration, Storeowner frank Jones carries everything fran beer cans with secret hideaway compartments ($25) to a bean . box that conceals a closeckircuit television camera ($5,000). Dressed for espionage in a black. turtleneck, Jones demonstrated an electronic debugger, a small black box that vibtates warningly when saneone else is carrying a concealed tape recorder. "Wear it under your shirt," he said, winking. . Shrugging my shoulders as if flipping up the collar of a trench coat, I walked two desolate, waterfront blocks, '.past a rusted sign advertising Marine Repair, and stopped to answer a ringing public telephone.in front of the Silver 001- . lar Restaurant. The caller hung up. I brusbed my lips existentially, like Jean- Paul Belmondo in Breathless, into AII- . 26 H O'L •• A Y ••• T • U • D. • America Boy. The wanan working behind the counter, grinning with a caus- .tic New York affability, explained the difference between All-Ameri~ Boy and New York Man--"New York Man is much fUrther up the street," she said-and watched me as I fondled a rack of silk boxer shorts, $38 per pair. I liked the yellow ones, which they call "citrus"; the boxers also come in peach, which they call "ginger"; blue, which they call "plum"; , and black, which they call "black." Crossing Hudson Street I stopped in the Christopher Street Bookstore, where they were selling a Peter Gun, a blue • • • • , • squirt gun with a pink penile attachment. But the man behind the counter said it didn't have a price tag, and anyway, it was broken. Cresfallen, I went immediately to U Lac Candies, where I considered drowning my sorrows in fudge squares ($1.25 each), mint-green and chocolatebrown marzipan acorns ($23 per pound), a chocolate credit card ($2.50) or a chocolate lV remote control ($8). But I'm off sugar. I fled the candy store and crossed the street to the Leatherman, where, if I felt like it, I could See COLUMBUS on page 32 • ••• , ;;> ./' • • First class housemen. Handsome, informal, reliable, Bartenders and waiters available. (212) 691-1798 • • • •
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