October 1941. An exterior view of the White Tower (called "White Tavern" in the LOC captions) restaurant in Amsterdam, New York. View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration.
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 7:17am.
This is the Northeast corner of Broadway and West 112th Street in Manhattan. Sometimes on Seinfeld the camera will pan to the right (East) and you can see the Cathedral at the end of the block on Amsterdam Ave.
Submitted by Even Steven on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 9:16am.
The White Tower was one of my favorite restaurants in the early 50s in Baltimore.
The good news was one could get two burgers and a coke for the sum of 25 cents while on the flip side was that it only took two or three bites per burger however I felt like a big shot as I would sit at the picture window and watch the passing parade on Erdman Avenue.
These restaurants were all over Baltimore and were also quite popular as a 2 a.m. stop after the bars closed and the munchies were on you.
Submitted by Joe Manning on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 6:57am.
Another copycat chain was the Little Tavern Shops, a number of which were located in the Baltimore-Washington area. When I was a little boy, my grandfather frequently took me to the one in Laurel, Maryland. See it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/earlg/369898420/
The one in College Park, Maryland, just off the main campus of the University of Maryland, is still there, although it's a different business now. Amsterdam was another sad victim of urban renewal. Its downtown was almost entirely destroyed by a limited access road connecting it with the New York State Thruway, and a massive redesign of the inner city streetscape. The block pictured here was probably demolished.
