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Paul Vanderbilt

New York, New York. A nun collecting contributions outside the door of Macy’s department store, 1939

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Yup. I was one of the kids watching. Always fascinated with Vince Guaraldi's iconic music, bein' a piano kid. Led me to discover I liked Dave Brubeck, as well. Of course, Brubeck's music was not as gentle as Guaraldi's, nor as good natured.

Remember the song, "Cast Your Fate To The Wind", which was ubitquitous on the radio in '63 and after, and was one of the ways many of us first heard Vince Guaraldi without really being conscious of it. It was one of a parade of what have become iconic instrumental 45s, which were created by guys like Guaraldi, and Herb Alpert.

Truly iconic.

What a nice post… happy Halloween!

Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, 1984

Morris Huberland     Bonwit Teller, 5th Avenue, New York City     1952

The Bonwit Teller building, an Art Deco masterpiece, was torn down by Donald Trump in 1979, so that he could use the space to build the gaudy monstrosity, Trump Tower.

that's me

Hippiefest

The Nebra Sky Disk, ca. 1600 BC, Germany. Possibly an astronomical instrument, it features the oldest known depiction of the cosmos [2724 x 2724]

VW Beetle

the band, woodstock, 1968. photo by elliot landy

Pennsylvania Six Five Thousand.

The Hotel Pennsylvania, an over 100 year old hotel featuring 2,200 rooms that once even had it's own newspaper, is slowly but surely being demolished. Via the New York Times.

It's gone...I walked by last week and it was just a huge hole in the ground. It was the first hotel I stayed in in the Nineties. An architectonic part and history of New York - gone. It was the largest hotel world wide when It was built in 1919.

The Eagle has landed: July 20, 1969

LIRR ran four of these little hirail VW Transporters back in the 1960's -- basically for less cost and hassle than a Fairmount Speeder and just as good on gas...

Came equipped with a homemade pintle jack turntable for fast U-turns! Seemingly the track maintenance crews, who called themselves the Cockney slang "Gandy Dancers" lovingly called this versatile little Volkswagen Transporter a "Gandyvvagen"

Ezra Stoller: Times Square VE - VJ Day, 1945

“On Jan. 1, 1898, the population of the city of Brooklyn dropped to zero.That’s because, on that day, the city of Brooklyn ceased to exist.

“Long a major metropolis in her own right,” The Times reported, “she was reduced overnight to a mere borough, one of five in the newly constituted City of New York and by no means the top banana in the bunch.”

Many called it the Great Mistake of 1898.

The evening before, the poet Will Carleton voiced his opinion from what was — until then — Brooklyn’s City Hall.

Reading lines he had composed for the occasion, he said: 

“We are grieved that a maiden of sweetness, / Full of life’s vigor and joy and completeness, / With the rich charms of young womanhood laden, / We are aggrieved that this fair, comely maiden / At midnight must die.”

Few tributes can be more heartfelt.”

NYT | Map

Notre Dame de Paris - 15 Avril 2019

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