Go West, Wide-Eyed Easterners
David RooneyJune 10, 2011: The setting of a Pullman sleeping car departing Grand Central in spring 1914, bound for the Pacific Coast, evokes thoughts of adventurous pre-Depression train travel, when crossing the country was as much an endurance test as a glamorous jaunt. It suggests East Coast sophisticates leaving behind their cosmopolitan yet insular world to enter a landscape that opened their horizons in ways both physical and figurative.
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