BEACH, THE. The Beach —the concrete island separating Broadway and 7th Avenue across the street from the Palace Theatre —was the hangout for out-of-work vaudevillians in the teens and twenties. They would gather on the little island and brag about their recent bookings and hefty contracts. Usually these exploits were greatly exaggerated.
The Beach even had its poet: Philip Stack , a clerk in the Brooklyn Edison Company, who wrote poems under the pseudonym Don WahnDon Wahn...