Upper East Side ladies who lunch paid cold hard cash to come downtown for "An Afternoon in SoHo," a bus tour that took ticketholders to two real-life artist studios and a genuine bohemian art gallery.

Public art was kind of a new concept in New York City in the 1970's, so I think we were lucky to have numerous wall murals in SoHo. Actual murals, not ads for DKNY or Knob Creek.