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Moses was very angry about this Casino. It was very old. The building itself was as old as the layout of the park, or very nearly as old as that. The restaurant at McGowan's Pass had burned down in some fire a good many years before, so the only really exclusive restaurant left was the Casino. It was charming. It was lovely. It was where your young man took you to dine when he was courting you, among other things. It was very fashionable and very elegant. It had ceased to be very practical because it wasn't modern. The cooking equipment was old and old-fashioned.

Jimmy Walker revived it and put a lot of city money into it to bring the thing up to date. Then they leased it to some concessionarie and it came back with a real bang. It was a charming place. During LaGuardia's operations, Moses was LaGuardia's righthand man, and they had a whack at Central Park. Moses walked right in and condemned the place as being perfectly ridiculous, nonsense and so forth. He gave birth to the idea of the Tavern-on-the-Green, which was the old sheep fold. Central Park was really a lovely park. It was designed by F. L. Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. A beautiful flock of sheep were kept. The sheep fold was a picturesque building in itself. It was like an old English sheep fold. The sheep were really kept there and they really gamboled on the great greens where the Tammany Hall children