Display at the New York World’s Fair 1939. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White.
Tag: NYC
The “Big Apple”, the city that never sleeps, home to 7 million people in the 1930s.
Cooling Off
Some girls cooling off on a rooftop in New York City, summer of 1943
A NYC Easter, 1956
“Huge crosses, formed by lighted windows, blaze above New York’s skyline as part of an Easter display in Manhattan’s financial district. This scene, photographed from the roof of the Municipal Building, features 150-foot-high crosses in the City Services Co., City Bank Farmers Trust Co., and the Forty Wall Street Corp. buildings.” – Oxnard Press-Courier, March 31, 1956.
The G-Bomb
Thursday March 11, 1995 THE G-BOMB. Who are the Warmongers? NEW YORK DEVASTATED. (March 11th, 1995 was actually a Saturday)
The G-Bomb by Vargo Statten, Published in 1951 by Scion Books
1939 Pontiac Ghost
The Pontiac Ghost, a transparent car built with plexiglass, on display at the General Motors ‘Highways and Horizon’s’ pavilion at the New York World’s Fair.
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A Foreign Artist’s Idea…
… Of Modern Day New York
Vanity Fair, 1924, by Belgian artist Frans Masereel
Man with a Camera
SETS LENS AND FOCUSES ON ADVENTURE….. Charles Bronson stars as Mike Kovac, ex-combat photographer now freelancing in ABC-TV’s “Man With a Camera,”
adventure-mystery series premiering Monday, October 19 (10:30-11PM, PST).
Kovac, a warm hearted but tough New Yorker, is as expert with his camera as his fists, and his freelance assignments give him plenty of practice in both fields. (ABC promotional copy)
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Alright, Who Played With the Bat-Signal?
An image of an eye is projected onto a building at New York by a skyjector. February 1960.
Happy Pi Day
Lombardi’s, America’s first pizzeria, established in 1905, located in the “Little Italy” section of Manhattan, NYC
