All Around AA

A living room in a Brooklyn brownstone, 1934-1939. A swank tailor shop on Fifth Avenue, full of bolts and bolts of handsome tweeds--and assorted A.A.s --spring of 1939. A vacant apartment on West 72nd Street, summer of 1939. The same tailor shop's West Side loft, with the cutting tables for seats, the rest of the hot summer that same year. A real meeting-room in Aeolian Hall, fall and winter, 1939-40. Then, at last, the New York area A.A.s had grown enough to dare taking their own clubhouse, and in the spring of 1940 "24th Street" was ours--A.A.'s first clubhouse anywhere.