OK, I know we are a casual, cozy bunch here at IAN, but I like to throw a few oddities into the mix every once in a while. I'm talking New York City archival photos just made public.
Tuesday! A day to stroll down Old NYC memory lane.
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Follow me below the orange fingerprint for more tabloid photos so old that they may be art/Art.
This is my favorite
Apparently no one was hurt, just very, very surprised.
This is just one of thousands of newly-released photos added to the NYC Dept. of Records trove. There were some fascinating crime scenes, but I left those out of the diary. (Click on one of the included links if you want to take a peak.) They are not really gruesome, IMO, because they are so old now and so stilted that they almost look surreal. But I chose other oddities. Like this one
What is that horse doing down there?
The New York Times on March 21, 2015, published an article on this new addition to digital photo history.
The photos, crime scenes, disasters, and other NYC oddities, got me thinking about what it was like when we did not have 24/7 tabloid media yapping at us. These photos from the NYC archives represent single shots that may well have been the only visual record of an even for the public, via newspapers, of course.
This not only shows a heavy snowfall, but was taken at the infamous Five Points neighborhood--tenement and crime-ridden--at the end of the 19th century.
Bye-gone snow removal
Mayor LaGuardia destroying illegal slot machines. No delegating for him!
Dealing with unruly women:
But making sure they had a safe place to eat
Do you think your job is/was stressful? How about this?
And traffic only got bad lately? I think not:
Finally I include these iconic photos of the iconic Penn Station. Since this gorgeous example of civic, public architecture was summarily torn down in 1963, I view these shots as crime scene photos: