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Gay Nineties

plural noun

  1. the 1890s in the United States, a period regarded nostalgically as a decade of prosperous comfort and associated with gaslights, early bicycles and cars, and the Gibson girl.


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As a teenager, she followed her married sister to Washington and embraced the cultural and social life of the booming Gay Nineties city.

He popularized ragtime, an early form of American music combining classical European harmonies with syncopated African rhythms, in the late 1800s with his hit, “Maple Leaf Rag” — the sheet music sold half a million copies, and the song became a soundtrack to the Gay Nineties.

Bill’s New York City The restaurateur Curt Huegel has had his eye on the venerable Bill’s Gay Nineties for many years.

Yunnies are, by his account, the silent accomplices of hyper-gentrification: de-cultured millennials who actively like to shop at Target and could not care less if a quirky shrine like Bill’s Gay Nineties, which is the tavern where Tallulah Bankhead used to drink and which closed three years ago, is turned into a garish, high-end restaurant.

It’s too polite, more Gay Nineties ice cream parlor than Second Empire Parisian cafe.

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