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when disney parks drops this randomly out of nowhere????

(added side note: he went to disney a week or two ago to talk and sing santa fe for the disney college program. hoping it means more than just that though lol)

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fun fact starforonewholeminute is my instagram name 😎😎

I gotta be either dead or dreaming??

Cause look at that pape with my face beaming??

Tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it??

But I was a star for one whole minute??

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i love newsies history 😃

Hey Newsies Fandom, LETS TALK LODGING HOUSES (by someone who wrote a 13 page essay on them for a university class)

I’ve recently delved into the world of Newsies Fanfiction and I’ve been going a little crazy over some of the representation of the Lodging House so I thought I’d offer up some FACTS regarding some things I’ve seen. For this I’m going to focus on the N°9 Duane Street Lodging-House.

(If you want a basic idea without doing too much research or reading this post, just go watch the 1992 Newsies, it’s not perfectly accurate but it’s close enough.)

THE LAYOUT: the lodging house itself was 6-7 floors. The first floor was rented out to shops like some apartment buildings.

Floor 2: The second floor consisted of a large dining-room “where nearly two hundred boys can sit down at table” (Campbell et al, 1897, 122), as well as a kitchen, laundry room, store-room, servant’s room and living quarters for the lodging’s superintendent and their family.

Floor 3: The third floor contained the school-room as well as washrooms, leaving the two top floors for the dormitories.

Floor 4-5: Each dormitory was “furnished with from fifty to one hundred beds” (Campbell et al, 1897) with spring mattresses and plenty of comforters. There were also “private rooms” which were squared spaces quartered off by curtains for privacy. These beds, though more expensive, were almost ALWAYS filled.

A couple different sources mention the lodging house having a gymnasium (with a trapeze) but they can’t seem to agree exactly where the gymnasium was. My guess is it was on the 6th floor as mentioned in an article by The Journal. The attic was used as extra space for the winters when the dormitories were full.

COSTS: lodging was 6 CENTS (or 10 for a “private room”) and meals (breakfast and dinner) were the same price. Boys could have as many helpings of a mean as they wanted! Without paying extra! From what I could tell they didn’t serve lunch because the afternoon paper came out around noon and most boys just picked up something while they were out so they wouldn’t miss a prime selling time.

(Don’t forget that most papers cost 1¢ for customers so a newsie would only have to sell 6 papers to stay the night or get a meal)

AMENITIES: THEY. HAD. SHOWERS. They had access to both hot and cold water and free towels. Boys were expected to wash up after entering the lodging house. Also, as mentioned, there was a laundry room. From my understanding it was most often used to clean the sheets of the beds which were used every day, but there were also boys said to be around helping with chores, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they were also able to wash their clothes there when they wanted.

There was also a free clothes ‘closet’ with donated clothing for boys to access. It seemed most boys chose not to make use of it out of pride, but it didn’t go UNUSED. When a kid really needed stuff they would give it to them.

SCHOOLING: boys staying at the lodging house who did not receive a pass to stay out late were expected to attend the night school held there from 7:30-9. During the day the lodging house also held trades classes and other such courses for those who couldn’t attend a full day of school for whatever reason.

There’s so much more but that’s the basics of it and some of the stuff I’ve seen people get wrong (both in fanfics AND here on Tumblr) I’ve added photos from the Lodging house as well as some links of interest for those who want to go do their own research.

Campbell, H., Knox, T. W., & Byrnes, T. (1897). NEW YORK NEWSBOYS-- WHO THEY ARE, WHERE THEY COME FROM, AND HOW THEY LIVE-- THE WAIFS AND STRAYS OF A GREAT CITY. In Darkness and Daylight; or Lights and Shadows of New York Life; A Pictoral Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis (pp. 111–138). essay, Hartford, Conn. The Hartford Publishing Company. Retrieved November 23, 2024, from https://archive.org/details/darknessdaylight00campuoft/page/137/mode/1up.

^ Chapter IV: NEW YORK NEWSBOYS— WHO THEY ARE, WHERE THEY COME FROM, AND HOW THEY LIVE— THEY WAIFS AND STRAYS OF A GREAT CITY.

Riis, J. A. (1890). How The Other Half Lives. Charles Scribner’s Sons. November 23, 2024, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45502/45502-h/45502-h.htm#Page_82

^Chapter XVII: The Street Arab

Riis, J. A. (1908). The Children of the Poor. Charles Scribner’s Sons. November 23, 2024, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32609/32609-h/32609-h.htm#Page_122

^Chapter XIV: The Outcast and the Homeless

Smallest saving bank in the world. (1896, February 16). The Journal, pp. 19–19. Retrieved November 23, 2024, from https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84031792/1896-02-16/ed-1/?q=Great+Depression&sp=19&st=image&r=-0.421,0.085,1.842,1.398,0.

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i am a jack kelly lover.

i have nothing bad to say about this boy.

✨ 𝙹𝙰𝙲𝙺 𝙺𝙴𝙻𝙻𝚈 (𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙴) ✨

“𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎, 𝙼𝚎 𝚒𝚖 𝚍𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚢."

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YOU’RE TELLING ME THEY HAD ALL THIS TO PUT OUT AND MUSEUM OF BROADWAY ONLY GOT JACK?

Newsies at the 2025 EPCOT Festival of the Arts!!

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guys i need help

everywhere i keep seeing a quote from the weeknd

and i’m so confused

because like

wdym?

92sies santa fe?

clearly i have not heard the song if he sings that in one of them

does anyone know what song it’s from or if the internet is just lying 😭😭😭

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still can’t believe i was in the presence of this beauty briefly a few days ago

i will never recover

it even has the iconic one suspender sticking out

and they were playing king of new york while i was in this room

it was meant to be

live laugh love museum of broadway

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i love how i come on here maybe once a month to either yap about something somebody already said many times before me, spread misinformation accidentally, or dig something up that shouldn’t have been (cough cough juck kelly)

i have no original thoughts or fun ideas 🥲

i do however have lots of newsies stickers saved on my phone to send my mother

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jack kelly modern au??

you cannot tell me he wouldn’t absolutely wear this

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i have the best plans for a future cat i want to have whenever i move out

his name will be spot catlon

that way i can tell people who don’t know what newsies is his name is just spot

and the people who get it can know the full name

also it will be funny because people usually names dogs spot

and then he can be the leader of the brooklyn mewsies

thank you for coming to my ted talk.

i know people have come up with this before but i am 100% stealing it

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for those who like podcasts andrew wilson (swing on the newsies tour) just made a newsies travel podcast

you should all go listen 👀

the first guest is chaz wolcott (tour buttons 😃)

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forgot to post these yesterday whoops

also face reveal???? (scared to do this but it’s okay 🥲)

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hear me out

newsies au where all the newsies are berries

but pulitzer is still human and it’s in the universe of fruit ninja

so pulitzer is like

trying to slice them up

tell me if this makes any sense

Newsberries!

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JATHERINE DANCING TOGETHER OH MY GOD

wake it up

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just found out about juck kelly yesterday. i’m scared.

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i genuinely want to know why people hate livesies so much. you can like 92sies more, thats cool. it seems like people tend to like whatever version they saw first which is totally fine cause i did too. i just want to know why people are so against it? i know a lot was changed for the musical so i guess that’s partly why? idk. i personally don’t hate 92sies, i just prefer livesies because it appeals to me more. i’ve just always been a fan of dancing and broadway in general. also probably partly because i was sick when i saw it for the first time and it hyped me up a lot. idk if you have thoughts or opinions please feel free to leave them 😃

(i rewrote this like six times because i don’t want to sound mean i just wanted to ask 🥲)

(also genuinely cannot tell if people are actually saying they hate it or if it’s an exaggeration)