He whistled the fragment of a tune and went farther along this street of uncanny silence and vacancy, noting, as he went, the signs on the shop windows.

There was the Busy Bee Restaurant, Jim's Place, the Hotel Renown, the Last Dollar Dance Hall, Hank's Pool Room.

Upon one window was painted the terse announcement, "Joe--Buy or Sell." The Happy Days Bar adjoined the General Store.
He moved rapidly through this street.

It was no place to linger.

At the lower end it gave insanely upon a row of three-story brownstone houses which any picture patron would recognize as being wholly of New York.
There were the imposing steps, the double-doored entrances, the broad windows, the massive lines of the whole.