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Loading... Summer at Tiffany (2007)by Marjorie Hart
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. A delightful little memoir of working at Tiffany in 1945. Full of interesting historical tidbits, but a bit outdated in tone. (  ) Carmentalie | Jun 4, 2022 |  Adult nonfiction/memoir. As told by a charming, 82-year-old lady. (  ) reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 | This was a quick charming read. (  ) baruthcook | Aug 26, 2020 | Young women working at Tiffany's in New York the summer the war ended. Lovely story of their lives and work and the family back home. ( ) nhlsecord | Sep 16, 2019 | I love that this is a true story. If it had been fiction, it wouldn't have been as enjoyable. Knowing that the events in the story actually took place made it so fun to read. Two college girls from Iowa decide to spend the summer in New York City. They don't have much money saved, they don't have jobs lined up and they barely find an apartment in time. But they've spend their lives reading gossip and glamour magazines and they feel that they must go and see it for themselves. I love their faith that they will just waltz into the city and find a job. Through an entertaining turn of events, they wind up working at Tiffany's. At the time, the store had never employed women on the floor, only men. But because of the short supply of male candidates due to the war, and the confidante of these two women, they decide to employ the girls as pages. They are so proud of the glamorous job. You could be very proud to have the chance these two did. They knew even while they were living it that this would be the summer of their lives. I thought the story was a lot of fun. How brave these two women were. It was a leap of faith that paid off with memories that lasted them a lifetime. ( ) Mishale1 | Dec 29, 2018 | no reviews | add a review
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Do you remember the best summer of your life? New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, 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-a diamond-filled day job replete with Tiffany blue shirtwaist dresses from Bonwit Teller's-and the envy of all their friends. Hart takes us back to the magical time when she and Marty rubbed elbows with the rich and famous; pinched pennies to eat at the Automat; experienced nightlife at La Martinique; 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 Caf ?society, she fell in love, learned unforgettable lessons, made important decisions that would change her future, and created the remarkable memories she now shares with all of us. No library descriptions found. |
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