reference to astor hotel. bud in talking to the two girls "got anything special on tonight?" "yeah, we were just about to get a bite to eat at the astor" (sarcastically) bud: "don't try to pull no astor stunts on me (that sarcasm) i don't come from the bronx (poor area). coupla drinks, the speak (speakeasy), a dance & maybe a movie." bud is telling them he has money to spend. hotel astor was a prestige hotel located in the times square area of manhattan, in operation from 1904 through 1967. featured a long list of elaborately themed ballrooms and exotic restaurants: the old new york lobby, the american indian grill room with artifacts collected with the help of the american museum of natural history, a flemish smoking room, a pompeiian billiard room, the hunt room decorated in sixteenth century german renaissance style, and many other features.