To Alan Best Wishes
The memoirs of a Brooklyn teenager in the mid 1950s, coming out and coming of age in the New York Theatre District. The book contains 50 photographs of Stage and Screen celebrities, taken by the author, plus 400 autographs and the stories and adventures of the collectors and the stars that they met. Purchase the book here.
The memoirs of a Brooklyn teenager in the mid 1950s, coming out and coming of age in the New York Theatre District. The book contains 50 photographs of Stage and Screen celebrities, taken by the author, plus 400 autographs and the stories and adventures of the collectors and the stars that they met. Purchase the book here.
"In this age of selfies it's hard to recapture the bad old days when half-crazed collectors hung around New York's Shubert Alley in the hopes of getting an autographed photo of Ethel Merman or Marilyn Monroe. Alan Perna, a star struck Brooklyn teenager, was there in rain or sleet, waiting to seize the moment of the stars passing through.
It's all preserved in this charming anthology that the present- day Perna, a successful Greenwich Village hairstylist, has assembled to delight his recollection and ours."
John Ashbery