[ Barnstead isn't a name Steve recognizes, but that also doesn't surprise him. It sounds like it's a small enough town that anyone who doesn't live there or close to it probably isn't going to have heard of it. It sounds quaint, though. Idyllic, even, though a city kid like him can hardly imagine living somewhere so small.
His face does light up as soon as Nadine mentions her trip to New York, though. He can't help but idealize his own home city, especially when he has so much nostalgia wrapped up in it — of what it was like at a different time. ]
FAO Schwarz? [ He has memories of when that location moved to Fifth Avenue, and as for the Music Hall... ] Yeah, I remember when the Music Hall opened. They played King Kong there.
[ This is probably going to be enough to alarm Nadine, given that he's talking about something that happened in the 1930s. Granted, he could just be from the past, but it's a little more complicated than that. Figuring that she might ask, he adds: ]
I was born in 1918, but took a pretty long nap starting in the '40s. Was on ice for about... seventy years.
[ Hence, a seemingly modern man who nonetheless grew up in a different time entirely. ]
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His face does light up as soon as Nadine mentions her trip to New York, though. He can't help but idealize his own home city, especially when he has so much nostalgia wrapped up in it — of what it was like at a different time. ]
FAO Schwarz? [ He has memories of when that location moved to Fifth Avenue, and as for the Music Hall... ] Yeah, I remember when the Music Hall opened. They played King Kong there.
[ This is probably going to be enough to alarm Nadine, given that he's talking about something that happened in the 1930s. Granted, he could just be from the past, but it's a little more complicated than that. Figuring that she might ask, he adds: ]
I was born in 1918, but took a pretty long nap starting in the '40s. Was on ice for about... seventy years.
[ Hence, a seemingly modern man who nonetheless grew up in a different time entirely. ]