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Guide to theContest responses to Lenore Skenazy's"Only in New York" and "New York Stories" columns,New York Daily News,1988-1995 MS 3232

Series I. "Only in New York" contest responses, 1988-1990, inclusive

Arrangement

The collection remains in its original folders, which were marked by Lenore Skenazy with their contest number and an abbreviated and/or paraphrased version of the contest question posed. The container list includes the verbatim questions as recorded in the Daily News, followed by the date the results of each contest were published. "ONY" before each file name stands for "Only in New York."

Tear sheets and photocopies of published "Only in New York" contests (scattered)

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

• ONY Contest 2. {How do you choose your lottery numbers?} [results published September 4, 1988]
• ONY Contest 11. What was the most bizarre thing you ever witnessed on New York public transportation? [results published November 6, 1988]
• ONY Contest 16. What's the one thing about holidays, apart from crowds, we mean, that makes you craziest? [results published December 11, 1988]
• ONY Contest 23. How did your mom and dad meet? [results published February 5, 1989]
• ONY Contest 25. A genuinely appropriate New York fortune cookie fortune. [results published February 19, 1989]
• ONY Contest 31. What's your favorite New York cockroach story? [results published April 16, 1989]
• ONY Contest 33. What was your worst experience with a rude New York salesperson? [results published April 30, 1989]
• ONY Contest 40. The most incredibly annoying colleague you've ever dealt with. [results published June 18, 1989]
• ONY Contest 46. What would you like to find when (and if) you get to heaven? [results published July 30, 1989]
• ONY Contest 54. What was the most useless and irrelevant piece of advice your nice old grandparents ever gave you? [results published September 24, 1989]
• ONY Contest 61. What was the most traumatic thing that happened to you in elementary school? [results published November 12, 1989]
• ONY Contest 63. The stranger you never thanked. [results published November 26, 1989]
• ONY Contest 71. What was the best time you ever had at Rockefeller Center? [results published January 28, 1990]
• ONY Contest 73. How did your sweetie propose? [results published February 11, 1990]
• ONY Contest 82. Your most obnoxious customer. [results published April 22, 1990]

ONY Contest 47. What was the most disappointing thing that ever happened to you on a vacation? [results published August 6, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 48. What's the worst thing your roommate, past or present, ever did to you? [results August 13, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 49. What was the greatest rip-off you've ever experienced in this city? [results published August 20, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 50. What was your worst birthday party ever? [results published August 27, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 51. What is the most amazing tale a panhandler has ever laid on you? [results published September 3, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 52. What one thing went wrong at your wedding (or a wedding you attended)? [results published September 10, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 53. Send us a photo of yourself and tell us what famous person you think you look like. [results published September 17, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 54. What was the most useless and irrelevant piece of advice your nice old grandparents ever gave you? [results published September 24, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 55. What is the one piece of good useful New York trivia that you happen to know but probably very few other people know? [results published October 1, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 56. A campaign slogan for Batman for Mayor. [results published October 8, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 57. Ode to the New York shove. [results published October 15, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 58. I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry I did . . . (whatever). [results published October 22, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 59. What one letter would you like to write to a New York TV personality? / What one letter would you like to pen to your New York public? [results published October 29, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 60. What did you want to be when you grew up, how close did you ever get—and how did you end up doing what you're doing now? [results published November 5, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 61. What was the most traumatic thing that happened to you in elementary school? [results published November 12, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 62. What's the nicest thing a New York shopkeeper ever did for you? [results published November 19, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 63. The stranger you never thanked. [results published November 26, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 64. A provable truth about New York City. [results published December 3, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 65. Where can we find your favorite ethnic food in New York and what makes it unusual? [results published December 10, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 66. What was the weirdest diet you ever went on? [results published December 17, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 67. What was the worst present you ever got for Christmas of Chanukah? [results published December 24, 1989]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 68. What was the most amazing thing that ever happened at an office party you attended? [results published January 7, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 69. What was your personal high point of the '80s? [results published January 14, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 70. An ode to and about Ed Koch from his faithful constituents who loved him so. [results published January 21, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 71. What was the best time you ever had at Rockefeller Center? [results published January 28, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 72. What was the hardest thing to get used to about your in-laws? [results published February 4, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 73. How did your sweetie propose? [results published February 11, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 74. What was your most exasperating babysitting experience? [results published February 18, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 75. A typical conversation with your mother. [results published February 25, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 76. What was the most amazing exchange you ever had with a cab driver? [results published March 4, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 77. What was the weirdest class you ever took at night school? [results published March 11, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 78. Your imaginary childhood friend. [results published March 18, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 79. The now-extinct New York landmark whose loss you regret the most. (March 25, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 80. What's the lamest excuse you've ever given/heard to get out of trouble with the law? [results published April 1, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 81. A typical conversation with your son or daughter. [results published April 8, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 82. Your most obnoxious customer. [results published April 22, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 83. The New Yorker you knew before he or she became famous. [results published April 29, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 84. What was your first impression of your honey? [results published May 6, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 85. A picture of yourself and your pet. [results published May 13, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 86. What was the best time you ever had at a baseball game? [results published May 20, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 87. What did you do on a typical Saturday night when you were 17 years old? [results published May 27, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 88. The most awful person you ever sat next to on a plane, train, boat, or bus. [results published June 3, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 89. What's the shortest time you ever held a job? [results published June 10, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 90. What urban clues tell you it's summer? [results published June 24, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 91. What song have you always mis-sung the words to? [results published July 29, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 92. Under what circumstances was an item returned to you unexpectedly? [results published July 1, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ONY Contest 93. What's the best nickname you or a pal ever had? [results published July 8, 1990]

Offsite-Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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