by Erin Conlon 
Eighty-two years ago today, a reader of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reminisced on the swinging seniors’ party that was the Greenpoint Home for the Aged’s annual Old Ladies’ Fair in the paper’s January 28, 1940 issue.
Though a night at Ponyboy or Saint Vitus it was not, reader Catharine P. Briggs (whose letter was affectionately sequestered to the “Old Timers” category) recalled the week-long debauchery as thesocial event of the year, boasting a…
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