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Tenement Beautiful: 1921
Before Urban Renewal, there was the Hyacinth Window Box.
March 1921. "City Gardens Club of New York exhibit at the International Flower Show, Grand Central Palace." From the Home Improvement issue of Better Hovels & Gardens. Gelatin silver print by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.
Magic flowers
That's amazing! If planting flowers can pick up your garbage, straighten your shutters and paint them, and dry your laundry with neither electric dryer nor clothesline, I guess I should get planting!
Clothesline
Why is a clothesline in a narrow-lot yard always taken to be a sign of squalor? It's simply a feature of high-density housing.
Odd couples
Mr. and Mrs. Ungar told their boy to stay away from that Madison kid next door.
Three generations of exhibition halls
Grand Central Palace was not related to Grand Central Terminal even though it was located just a short distance away. It was New York's main exhibition hall from its opening in 1911 until the early 1950's, when it was demolished and a high-rise built on the site. The New York Coliseum on Columbus Circle then became the city's exhibition hall, a status it held until the Javits Convention Center opened in the 1980's.
Now the Javits Center itself is becoming obsolete, being too small for today's mega-conventions, but there are no real plans to replace it.
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