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Footage of New York, 1911 . Colorized with ambiance sounds added.

Broad street, New York, USA, early 1900′s.

newyorkthegoldenage:

The gala premiere of the film version of Grand Hotel at the Astor Theater, April 12, 1932.

The original, a play, opened on Broadway in November 1930 and was a major hit, running for 459 performances. Eugenie Leontovich  played the role later played on screen by Greta Garbo, Albert van Dekker the role later played by John Barrymore, Hortense Alden the role later played by Joan Crawford, Sam Jaffe the role later played by Lionel Barrymore, and  Siegfried Rumann the role later played by Wallace Beery. The only member of the stage cast who appeared in the film was  Rafaela Ottiano, who played Suzanne (in the movie, Suzette).

Photo: Bettmann/Getty

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newwavearch90:

Metamorphosis Salon - Great Neck, Long Island NY - Alan Buchsbaum (1969)

“Buchsbaum designed Metamorphosis, a women’s beauty salon and men’s clothing store in the Long Island suburbs, as an inhabitable work of Pop Art, a full-scale fantasy of mod colors, finishes, forms, and super-graphics. The exterior, faced with one-foot strips of red porcelain-enameled steel, featured glass windows and two doors with giant-scaled human profiles, one for each shop. The curving interior wall that separated the store from the salon was painted in ten shades of lipstick pink and one shade of eyeshadow blue; the “VIP” room, or pedicure area, sported floor-to-ceiling horizontal stripes in a full spectrum of colors. Cabinets in white laminate, chairs in shiny white vinyl, and a white tile floor with inlaid bands of pink exaggerated the entry and seating area.
Beneath the distracting surfaces and sensations, a rational plan organized the salon’s multi-staged program. Metamorphosis was an efficient workplace and highly stylized commercial architecture. The owner noted, “People feel young when they’re here, and I know that the architect’s design will be modern for many years to come.”

Scanned from the Alan Buschman monograph book(1996)

1969

stylingup:

Peggy Moffitt, Central Park, New York, 1967

Lee Radziwill & Truman Capote, New York 1960’s

Women looking at the mannequins in the window of Bergdorf Goodman, Fifth Avenue, NYC, 1942. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Truly a stunning fashion pic.

Street fashion photographed by Martine Barrat, NYC, 1940s

New Year’s Eve in Times Square, 1939.

American Museum of Natural History staff view the new whale model at the Hall of Ocean Life, 1969

Admirals Row, Brooklyn.

New York, 1955

angelkarafilli:

Wm. Goldberg’s clothing store. 771 Broadway, New York City, circa 1930’s.

photo:Berenice Abbott

vintageeveryday:

Vintage photographs captured ‘Human Fly’ George Willig climbing the World Trade Center in 1977.

CultureCINEMA: “Dog Day Afternoon” Opening Sequence (1975) - Music: “Amoreena” Elton John (1970)

Directed by Sidney Lumet and featuring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Carol Kane, and Charles Durning. A great look at 1970s New York. 

May 29, 1945: Contestants on the CBS radio game show “Take It or Leave It” recording an episode. They are shown working together to answer questions to collect their $64 prize. In 1947 it switched to NBC and three years later its name was changed to The $64 Question.

Photo: MCNY

The semi-annual art exhibit in Washington Square Park, 1939.

Photo: Alexander Alland via NYPL

Front cover of The Bedell Company summer catalogue, ca. 1920, showing a fashionable afternoon dress and cape. The dress is in chiffon taffeta silk and features a shawl collar, wide sleeves, tie waist, and a tiered overskirt. The military-style cape coat is in navy serge wool and features a buttoned belt, a high collar decorated with khaki serge bands, and bone buttons.

Source: Paul Popper for Popperfoto via Getty Images

He left Fifth Avenue and walked west towards the movie houses. Here on 42nd Street it was less elegant but no less strange. He loved this street, not for the people or the shops but for the stone lions that guarded the great main building of the Public Library, a building filled with books and unimaginably vast, and which he had never yet dared to enter. He might, he knew, for he was a member of the branch in Harlem and was entitled to take books from any library in the city. But he had never gone in because the building was so big that it must be full of corridors and marble steps, in the maze of which he would be lost and never find the book he wanted. And then everyone, all the white people inside would know that he was not used to great buildings, or to many books, and they would look at him with pity. He would enter on another day, when he had read all the books uptown, an achievement that would, he felt, lend him the poise to enter any building in the world.

     —James Baldwin, Go Tell It On the Mountain, 1953

Photo: Susan Candelario via Fine Art America

Private George H. Ruth of 104th Field Artillery, N.Y. National Guard, May 28, 1924. They wanted to use him for a recruiting poster. At 6'2" he was too big for any ready-made uniform and the Guard had to make a special one for him. Whether he actually served is unknown.

Photo: Library of Congress

Glamorous cars in glamorous places. An ad for Reo automobiles, 1930s.

Source: Advertising Archives via Fine Art America

On May 28, 1957, Major League Baseball approved the request of the Dodgers and Giants to move to California. Their fans were outraged.

These Dodger fans thought that even a move to Queens would be traitorous—Robert Moses had proposed a Queens site for a new ballpark, but Walter O'Malley rejected it. He had a perfect site in mind in Brooklyn, but Moses refused to give his permission.

Photo: United Press via Ephemeral New York

Billie Holiday singing “Fine & Mellow,” accompanied by Cozy Cole on drums, James P. Johnson at piano, and other unidentified musicians during a jam session, 1943.

Photo: Gjon Mili for Life magazine

Immigrants arriving on Ellis Island from the ferry, May 27, 1920.

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Fine Art America

Well, there was a war going on in the early 1940s. In fact, American and British planes had just been shot down in Germany and off the Alaskan coast. But this shopkeeper on 42nd St. had another type of war in mind when he put this sign up in his window.

Photo: Keystone Press Agency via the Holden Luntz Gallery

Fishing for coins, ca. 1930. These boys attached chewing gum to sticks and lowered them down the grate, hoping to catch coins that were dropped by passers-by.

Photo: Popperfoto via Getty Images

May 27, 1958: Seven-foot one Wilt Chamberlain looks over one of his long legs as he talks with newsmen in New York. He offered a plan for penalizing the tall man in basketball: put the basket on the floor. “Put it on the floor and then everybody can reach it,” he said.

Photo: AP via the Denver Post

Looking north along Orchard Street from the corner of Rivington Street, with Teitel’s Pharmacy, 86 Rivington Street, on the right, 1920s.

Photo: Irving Browning via the NY Historical Society/Getty Images/Fine Art America

Two pizza bakers at work in the window of their pizzeria, 1950s.

Photo: Michael W. Gorth/Lost Color Library/Daily Mail

Passengers on a bus at the Greyhound Terminal, 1947.

Photo: Esther Bubley via the Howard Greenberg Gallery

Double-decker bus with exterior stairs, 1932.

Photo: Paul Wolff via Luminous Lint

Poster (?) for the annual Washington Square Art Show, 1935. The drawing is by Otto Soglow, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, who created the character of the Little King in 1930. Four years later it was nationally syndicated and was even included in some short animated films.

Source: Swann Auction Galleries

Love in an alley, 1946.

Photo: Stanley Kubrick via MCNY

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Opening Day of the Empire State Building | May 1st, 1931