Old New York

[Judge Smails]

I love looking at stuff like this.

THIS (http://www.nyc-architecture.com/index.html) is a great site for New York architectural history.

But I particularly love THIS (http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/GAL-BW.htm)page with all the old timey pictures. Some of them, I think, might even predate the Blowhard.

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/007.jpg
Broadway 1894


http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/028.jpg
Times Square 1922

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/050.jpg
Columbus Circle 1933

And this one's my favorite:

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/027.jpg
"Federal Crowd Control, 1918. Machine guns in front, modified phalanx. Soldiers on sides assigned to upstairs windows. Wilson feared antiwar riots, losing mind to small strokes."

Now that's some serious fucking crowd control. This is for all of you people who say that we're living in a police state today.

[cougarjake13]

great site


thanks



i like seeing the way things used to be and see how much it changed

[Farmer Dave]

I found this same site just yesterday though a link on another forum. Coinsidence or are you a diesel truck driver Judge Smails?

[TooLowBrow]

great site


thanks



i like seeing the way things used to be and see how much it changed

i like seeing the stuff thats still the same

[vjr97]

i like the old graffiti up trains and all that decadance of 42nd st

[moochcassidy]

i saw that last night on fark. amazing

love the 30's section

holy shit New York is the greatest city in the world

[One Dead Fred]

Awesome pictures! The last one looks like the arrangement they'll have for the inauguration.

[boobieman]

A site with some old pictures and history.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/verrazanoconstruction/bridge.html

SEEYAYAYAA

I still hate everyone.

[mudflap170]

I was born and raised in NYC. I used to love to ride the old subway trains. Especially since I only lived 2 blocks from the 40th St. Lowery station on the #7 line, I spent a lot of time on them. I even remember when they were still running some of the wooden subway cars on the Canarsie line. I'll bet Blowhard knows what I'm talking about.
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i36/mudflap69/flushing-1.jpg
Here's a pic of a train at the station where I lived. It was taken in 1964 when I was 10 years old and they were painted special for the 1969 World's Fair.