Wallace Wood: Against the Grain, part 29 In May 1953 the couple left Rego Park and moved back to Manhattan, renting an apartment on West 74th Street at Columbus Avenue. They lived there for the next 15 years. “I remember sometimes on a hot day we would sit out on the fire escape after we moved here,” said Tatjana. “About 12 o’clock at night, we would look at each other and say, ‘Let’s go to a movie.’ We would go down to Times Square. In those days there were still some of the theaters that were relatively decent, although most of them smelled of disinfectant and urine. Every so often, late at night, we would go to 42nd Street and see the movies after midnight. During the day, there were even a few moviehouses that I would go to by myself. We saw quite a few movies, because we were not among the early people to get a television. I remember seeing all kinds of science fiction, which is not my genre, but I’d always trek along. We saw Them, with the little girl wandering out in the desert; Wallace drew that.”  ¶ 10:50 AM