Four well-dressed men strike a pose that hides their faces behind their fedoras. They were being held at New York City’s police headquarters on charges of bank robbery.
Tag: NYC
The “Big Apple”, the city that never sleeps, home to 7 million people in the 1930s.
Why Do You Not Write To Me?
Flatiron Bldg. After Snowstorm, N.Y. City (ca.1910)
I wonder if Effie ever received a reply…
NYC Winter Wonderland, 1945
Broadway, 1937
Elektro the Moto-Man, 1939
Elektro the Moto-Man, built by Westinghouse, performs 26 human-like tasks at the World’s Fair, New York City 1939
Central Park Casino 1929-1936
Originally the Ladies Refreshment Lounge (1864), the Central Park Casino (where no gambling took place) was transformed into one of NYC’s most expensive nightclubs. Mayor Jimmy Walker handed control of the property to his friend Sidney Solomon. Mayor Walker had a private office within its walls in order to do business with his political cronies.
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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
World-Wide Christmas, 1934
A New Yorker’s Idea of the USA, 1937
This humorous pictorial map of the United States takes the perspective of a New Yorker, with New York State shown in oversized proportion to the entire country. Some place names throughout the states are incorrect, for example, Minneapolis and Indianapolis are humorously shown together in Michigan as “The Twin Cities.” Decorative details include ships in the oceans, and various views in the borders such as the Empire State Building and a Fifth Avenue Coach bus. Explanatory texts are in two insets on the left. Compass rose on left corner of map oriented with the north to upper left. Location of 1939, New York World’s Fair grounds shown in Queens, New York. (David Rumsey Historical Map Collection)
