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On the Avenue: 1905
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 12/28/2012 - 2:23pm.
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New York circa 1905. "St. Regis and Gotham hotels." Looking south along Fifth Avenue at East 56th Street, a streetscape glimpsed here from a different angle. On the right, the Gotham rising behind Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Current view
Submitted by TwistedLogic7 on Sat, 12/29/2012 - 10:06pm.
This is from Google Maps. Nice to see it's lasted nearly 100 years.
St. Regis hotel
Submitted by Bolek on Fri, 12/28/2012 - 4:45pm.
Lovely building, and luckily, still exists. As I see, they even built a "bigger" version in Atlanta (2009). Still prefer the original one!
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Submitted by timeandagainphoto on Fri, 12/28/2012 - 4:39pm.
Below is the same view from April of 2006.
Vigilant cop
Submitted by montrealfilmguy on Fri, 12/28/2012 - 3:52pm.
The cop in the car across the street is eyeing us pretty good.
[He's a chauffeur. - tterrace]
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