A restaurant on The Bowery in the early 1920’s
The Bowery in New York City in the early 1920’s. Prohibition is around the corner — then the restaurant will move up to street level and the liquor store down below.
The Bowery in New York City in the early 1920’s. Prohibition is around the corner — then the restaurant will move up to street level and the liquor store down below.
Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men’s souls to joy.“ – Jack Kerouac, On the Road The music flows in and out of your senses as easily as the sweat raises your skin. What you […]
Father Today you would be ninety-seven if you had lived, and we would all be miserable, you and your children, driving from clinic to clinic, an ancient fearful hypochondriac and his fretful son and daughter, asking directions, trying to read the complicated, fading map of cures. But with your dignity intact you have been gone […]
They stopped us at the bottom of the jetway. We were the first ones to board, had scanned our tickets and paced down the carpeted walkway with the peculiar metronomic intensity of regular travelers. They weren’t ready for us. We were a motley gathering: a tall, thin woman with a pinched face reading a faded […]
The conception of the library in Stockholm has wormed into my imagination. Then I stumbled upon a curated sampling of bookshelves from Desire to Inspire. Here are two of my favorites. Just like the Stockholm conception, these images create kinesis in my imagination. I grew up surrounded by books — literally, surrounded by books, in […]
via boingboing.net Read this ad from a Children’s Home Society in Chicago from the early 1890’s closely. The children would be sent to you for free, on a 90-day trial, the ad proclaims. The copy spurs an odd sense of displacement: What a different time it was then. My grandfather was put in a Children’s Home […]
via bldgblog.blogspot.com Biosphere 2 was a ill-conceived effort to recreate the earth’s ecosystem within an vast geodesic dome, a kind of Earth-pod on the surface of Earth. BldgBlog is featuring the photos of Noah Sheldon, who recently visited the defunct structure and recorded nature’s steady creep. A dead building, BldgBlog proclaims. A dead building is one […]
via ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com Here’s lower Broadway in 1850, two years after the photo was taken of the farmhouse on the Upper West Side. Click through to Ephermal New York’s post — they have some interesting background on the Moffat behind the ad on the building you see down the street. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream
via ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com Columbia University is up there on the hill where St. Luke’s was in 1900. (St. Luke’s is still on Amsterdam, just not so prominent.) But, three-quarters of a century later, the bucolic vista had turned into a dark, tangled park of violence and intrigue that was bordered on its west side by a […]