Ted Perez, The Stork Club, New York, NY, New Year’s Eve 1947
When asked if he had any resolutions for the coming year by author John O’Hara, Ted responded with, “I will always face the past with my chin up and the future with my nose down.” Ted, not an invited guest to the evening’s festivities, was asked to leave roughly an hour before the New Year. By midnight he’d made his way to a holding tank in the 13th precinct police house.