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Salvador Dalí, Jerome Robbins, Jackie Onassis. Gregory Peck, Mick Jagger, S. J. Perelman, I. M. Pei. Philip Johnson, Josephine Baker, John Lennon: They, and so many more who made NEW YORK the guts of the world in the 1970s, all acquired one thing in common besides their adopted hometown - they shopped at a famous palace of catalogs, music, and skill: Rizzoli Catalogs at 712 Fifth Avenue. There, Kennedys and Rockefellers mingled with travelers and "regular" customers under the watchful gaze of advanced employees, themselves a multitalented, international assortment of artists, scholars, and rogues. Times at Rizzoli is the memoir of Felice Picano, an aspiring but near-starving young article writer who, in 1971, lucked into a part-time job at the stunningly fashionable store via a good friend. It metamorphosed into a life-changing experience, one which exposed him for some of the brightest equipment and lighting in the world's cultural capital. In the store he became an integral player on the stage that opened up every evening to a fresh drama that often presented romance, sometimes violence, and undoubtedly always the catalogs and their viewers. So when his move was over, in this post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS era, the handsome young bookstore administrator stepped from one world into another, prowling the piers, bars, and incredibly private clubs of the different NEW YORK.
