Harbor Celebration Frame Color:Gold Rita's Roman Catholic Church in

Rita's Roman Catholic Church in the South Bronx

"In this pleasant land where the greatest tension ever felt by most people in the past was the pull of a fish on a baited line all the countryside is now taut with the strains of the Atomic Age

and it just didn't seem to be capable of being broken

The ticker-tape that blanketed the city afterward

Once thought to be the restaurant of the future

Harbor Celebration Frame Color:Gold Rita's Roman Catholic Church in"New York Harbor pulled out all the stops yesterday in greeting the new ocean queen, the superliner United States," The Times reported in June 1952. As the United States neared her home port at Pier 86 on West 46th Street in Manhattan, the harbor staged "one of the most exciting demonstrations in its long history," which began early in the morning and lasted six hours. "Hung over guests on the liner who had looked too long and too often into their