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Category: Photo Album
Cotton Club, 1923-1940
The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub located in Harlem on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935, then briefly in the midtown Theater District from 1936 to 1940. The club operated most notably during the United States’ era of Prohibition. (Wikipedia)
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Greyhound Bus Station, 1937
Greyhound Bus Station, NYC, Penn Station sits in the background
Skating Cowboy, 1889
Captain Wise A. in skating costume, 1889
Chanukah 1932
“It was on a Friday afternoon right before Shabbat that this photo was taken. My grandmother realized that this was a historic photo, and she wrote on the back of the photo that ‘their flag wishes to see the death of Judah, but Judah will always survive, and our light will outlast their flag.’ My grandfather, the rabbi of the Kiel community, was making many speeches, both to Jews and Germans. To the Germans he warned that the road they were embarking on was not good for Jews or Germans, and to the Jews he warned that something terrible was brewing, and they would do well to leave Germany. My grandfather fled Germany in 1933, and moved to Israel. His community came to the train station to see him off, and before departed he urged his people to flee Germany while there’s still time.” – Yehudah Mansbuch
Written on the back of the photo (translated):
“Chanukah, 5692.
‘Judea dies’, thus says the banner.
‘Judea will live forever’, thus respond the lights”.
Gojira (Godzilla), 1954
He looks so much taller on the big screen…
Zeppelin over the Saladin Citadel, 1931
Graf-Zeppelin over the Saladin Citadel, Cairo Egypt, 1931. Round trips offered to Egyptian clients from Almaza airport over the Sinai and around Jerusalem.
San Gervasio, Cozumel
Most Mayan sites were found deep in the interior of their lands, with the exception of structures like Tumba del Caracol, San Gervasio was built roughly two miles from the nearest coast. It is believed that no human sacrifices were made at this location, mostly because there is no evidence of such a practice happening here; no skeletal remains, no artifacts, and no (human) sacrificial alter. Once in their life Mayan women would travel to San Gervasio and offer their sacrifices to Ix Chel, an aged deity of childbirth, and fertility. Like many Mayan sites, there was only one way in and out of San Gervasio. In this case it was through the arch pictured below. A white limestone road was be illuminated by the full moon which would lead travelers to the sacred site, where it is said that on a full moon, the moon appeared over the alter.
Hangman’s Tree, 1945
Hangman’s Tree… the place to take your family for lousy food and warm beer…
