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Happy Trails
... Date and location unknown, but possibly Pennsylvania or New York. The uniform is also unknown. The back of the photo says only "Cliff". One ... 
 
Posted by Commander McBragg - 01/10/2012 - 11:39am -

Date and location unknown, but possibly Pennsylvania or New York. The uniform is also unknown. The back of the photo says only "Cliff". One thing's for sure, he won't misplace his .38. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Linda Gray and Mac: c. 1957
Taken in the rear yard 156-12 43 Avenue, Flushing, New York about 1957. Linda and her favorite Collie dog, Mac. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by Hank - 10/12/2010 - 9:00am -

Taken in the rear yard 156-12 43 Avenue, Flushing, New York about 1957. Linda and her favorite Collie dog, Mac. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Bob Wilson and Clayton MacNeal: c. 1912
... Clayton MacNeal in a field somewhere in northern New Jersey in about 1912. They are probably on the estate of one of the Childs ... Childs chain for many years beginning in about 1916 in New York City, married in 1927 and again in about 1938, and had a life-long career ... 
 
Posted by wilso127 - 09/16/2010 - 8:24am -

My Dad (at left) and his half-uncle Clayton MacNeal in a field somewhere in northern New Jersey in about 1912. They are probably on the estate of one of the Childs brothers of the then-popular restaurant firm. My Dad was an only child who lost his father when he was less than 2 years old, so Clayton became all but a big brother to him while they were growing up. Clayton worked for the Childs chain for many years beginning in about 1916 in New York City, married in 1927 and again in about 1938, and had a life-long career in the food service and hospitality business in locations all over the country. He died in Los Angeles in 1959. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
3 Dimension Sensation: 1953
RKO Theatre, Broadway and West 146th Street in New York City taken June 3, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:46pm -

RKO Theatre, Broadway and West 146th Street in New York City taken June 3, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Ross Park: 1915
... churches had at Ross Park on the south side of Binghamton, New York. The school was called Rossville School by the locals, in reality it was ... 
 
Posted by nunzw15 - 08/15/2014 - 7:51pm -

This unmarked photo was in my father's Funeral Book. I believe he is the small blond boy in the middle of the back row; to his left is my Uncle Billy with the dark hair. The annual summer outing that the schools and churches had at Ross Park on the south side of Binghamton, New York. The school was called Rossville School by the locals, in reality it was the Longfellow School or PS 13. Most likely my 2 aunts are in this photo as well as some of their cousins. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Clara and Max: 1890s
... make the actual year close to 1897. He later left for New York City. Clara stayed in Germany, where she was captured by the Nazis and ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 08/11/2017 - 6:56pm -

My father’s father, then about nine years old, poses with his Gibson Girl sister Clara at a professional photography studio in Germany. Max was born November 23, 1888, which would make the actual year close to 1897. He later left for New York City. Clara stayed in Germany, where she was captured by the Nazis and sent to Theresienstadt. More of her story here. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Family: 1925
Tappan, New York, 1925. My grandmother, the tall person second row on the right, with her ... 
 
Posted by Bobby Shafto - 01/03/2014 - 8:25pm -

Tappan, New York, 1925. My grandmother, the tall person second row on the right, with her father in front of her, her father-in-law on the left front row and her mother-in-law in the center. Her mother is to her right. The other two girls are her sisters. The small boy is her nephew. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
My Grandparents
... outside Mt. Carmel Catholic School in Poughkeepsie, New York during WW2. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery) ... 
 
Posted by booboogbs - 11/14/2014 - 7:38pm -

My grandparents standing outside Mt. Carmel Catholic School in Poughkeepsie, New York during WW2. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Edna Margueritte Moor
... had the ambition to become an opera singer and moved to New York. This photo must be from the early 1920s and was taken in Sacramento, ... 
 
Posted by ndlxs - 03/09/2013 - 12:09am -

My wife's great aunt, Edna Moor, who came from Birmingham, Alabama. She later had the ambition to become an opera singer and moved to New York. This photo must be from the early 1920s and was taken in Sacramento, California, probably on a visit to her brother. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Aboard the Queen: 1939
... , August 7, 1939. This was the day my father arrived in New York from Bombay, headed to MIT. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery) ... 
 
Posted by Mudhooks - 02/06/2019 - 10:07am -

Aboard the Queen Mary, August 7, 1939. This was the day my father arrived in New York from Bombay, headed to MIT. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Beach People Revisited: 1920s
... Vilna (now named Vilnius) and my mother lived in Brooklyn, New York, she and these relatives never met. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery) ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 12/22/2017 - 6:28pm -

The same three women previously seen on the beach, gather on the dunes with rubber swim caps and bathing suits. The place is probably Lithuania. The date is some time in the 1920s. My best guess at who these people are, is my grandmother’s two older sisters and her mother (center). That would have made them my mother’s aunts and grandmother. Because they lived in Vilna (now named Vilnius) and my mother lived in Brooklyn, New York, she and these relatives never met. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Battle Circus: 1953
Taken in New York City on June 1, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:44pm -

Taken in New York City on June 1, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
West 31st Street: Circa 1930s
... Circa 1930s. West 31st Street alongside the Post Office in New York City. The building on the next corner is where Madison Square Garden sits ... 
 
Posted by Bobby Cole - 09/26/2018 - 8:04am -

Circa 1930s. West 31st Street alongside the Post Office in New York City. The building on the next corner is where Madison Square Garden sits today. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Grandparents: 1943
... the time. Picture taken at their home in Chenango Bridge, New York. It may have been taken for her May 9th birthday. (ShorpyBlog, Member ... 
 
Posted by Sharon King - 04/21/2012 - 7:16am -

George and Viola Folmsbee, May 1943. They were 60 and 54 years old at the time. Picture taken at their home in Chenango Bridge, New York. It may have been taken for her May 9th birthday. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Me and Mom: 1930
1930. New York City on an upper eastside apartment roof. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by mporta1929 - 10/12/2011 - 11:24am -

1930. New York City on an upper eastside apartment roof. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Mother: 1922
... third wife. The first two had died in childbirth. New York circa 1922. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery) ... 
 
Posted by Bobby Shafto - 10/25/2013 - 8:29pm -

My mother and her step-grandmother; the lady was my great-grandfather's third wife. The first two had died in childbirth. New York circa 1922. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
A Daring Pose: 1912
... enjoyed life. Most of these photos were made in Central New York around Trenton Falls, once a park, now closed to the public. View full ... 
 
Posted by 3dfoto - 02/24/2017 - 8:28pm -

Here is the companion image to this photo submitted earlier. It seems that the lady and the photographer (probably her husband) were engaging in a bit of banter when she struck this spontaneous pose. She would be mortified to know that her playfulness would be exposed, along with a bit of ankle, but it emphasizes them as real people who enjoyed life. Most of these photos were made in Central New York around Trenton Falls, once a park, now closed to the public. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Marie, Rocker, Issar, Cigar: 1921
... brother Benny who invited the teenage Issar to join him in New York City around 1905. They subsequently formed Weinstein Brothers Cloak and ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 07/07/2017 - 6:59pm -

This photo shows my mother’s parents (Marie was last seen here) two years before they were wed if the date hand-written on the picture margin is correct. In 1921 both would have been approximately age 30. He was born in Bialystok (which is now part of Poland) in 1891, supposedly under the name of Issar Derrish which became Americanized to Isadore Weinstein, probably at the behest of his older brother Benny who invited the teenage Issar to join him in New York City around 1905. They subsequently formed Weinstein Brothers Cloak and Suits, with “Izzy” as the craftsman and Benny as the salesman. When Benny suddenly died in the 1930s that company fell apart. My guess is that this picture is at some vacation resort hotel, possibly in the Catskills. Beyond that, I have no clue. I would not consider sitting in a rocking chair and reading while a guy smoking a cigar was sitting on that chair’s arm with cigar smoke inches from my face to be a wonderful dating activity. I know for a fact that they married in 1923. That makes me question if this is a honeymoon photo, and not a dating photo. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Botany Bay Ballyhoo: 1953
Taken in New York City on November 8, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:45pm -

Taken in New York City on November 8, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Trylon and Perisphere: 1939
... stand in front of the Trylon and Perisphere at the 1939 New York World's Fair, dwarfing the tiny people waiting in line to enter the ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 08/18/2017 - 7:45pm -

Statues in the misty Lagoon of Nations stand in front of the Trylon and Perisphere at the 1939 New York World's Fair, dwarfing the tiny people waiting in line to enter the exhibit inside the ball-shaped Perisphere. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
10-16-2007
... OCTOBER 16, 2007 Today's theme is fire in and under New York. Or at least a lot of billowing smoke. Yesterday our readers did a great ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/16/2007 - 3:41am
Issar in America: 1905
... Hurwitz’s Photographic Art Studio, 273 E Houston Street, New York City. At the time he spoke no English and had little formal education, but ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 09/30/2017 - 11:20am -

At the behest of his older brother Benny, my mother’s future father, Issar, left his home in what is now Poland, for America. There he had his picture taken at Hurwitz’s Photographic Art Studio, 273 E Houston Street, New York City. At the time he spoke no English and had little formal education, but he had been apprenticed in the garment trade. Together the brothers formed Weinstein Brothers Cloak and Suits in NYC. Exactly when his name was changed from his birth name of Issar Derrish to his “American” name of Isadore Weinstein I do not know. I never met him to ask, though if I had, I would have asked which dumb cluck brother thought that very Eastern European ethnic name was American. My mother describes her Uncle Benny as an outgoing life of the party kind of fellow and says he was “the outside man” of the company. Her more reserved father was the “inside man” making the patterns and supervising whatever employees the company had. I translate that as being the salesman and the craftsman. When Benny died suddenly during the 1930's, the company folded, leaving Issar to freelance from company to company, making each one a pattern so that they would have new product for the coming season and stay in business during those hard times. Reportedly Issar loved children, opera, and cigars. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Arlene: 1937
... taken, probably during a family vacation at a Catskills New York resort. She had flame red hair as a child, and is wearing a dress with ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 06/09/2017 - 7:02pm -

My future mother, who was then seven years old, stands alone in a field to have her picture taken, probably during a family vacation at a Catskills New York resort. She had flame red hair as a child, and is wearing a dress with very odd sleeves. Who took the picture is unknown. Scan was made from a print. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Girls vs Boy: about 1938
Location is Brooklyn New York City. The event is a birthday party that my approximately eight year old ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 11/03/2017 - 7:08pm -

Location is Brooklyn New York City. The event is a birthday party that my approximately eight year old future mother, Arlene (in the light coat) attended. It was supposed to be a picture of the girls at the party, but somebody’s little brother snuck into the frame. The coat my mother is wearing might have been a coat her father made for her. He made at least one of her childhood winter coats. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
A Droll Stroll: 1912
... Here again is our popular fashionable woman from Upstate New York, first seen here as a Pensive Rocker . I chose this shot because this ... 
 
Posted by 3dfoto - 02/17/2017 - 8:18pm -

Here again is our popular fashionable woman from Upstate New York, first seen here as a Pensive Rocker. I chose this shot because this lady certainly enjoyed her life. Here she is looking over her shoulder at the camera, clearly bantering with the photographer, her husband. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Serious News: 1912
Our fashionable upstate New York woman once again, seen earlier on this porch here , here reading a ... 
 
Posted by 3dfoto - 12/30/2016 - 8:03pm -

Our fashionable upstate New York woman once again, seen earlier on this porch here, here reading a paper that gave us the hint of the year 1912. There is a headline referring to "sailing under false colors" and a search led us to a 1912 news item about an imposter who gave himself various identities in order to woo and marry young women. The fact that other articles about him use the same phrase suggests it is the item in the paper she's holding. The paper is likely published either Rome or Utica NY. From a collection of glass and film negatives I purchased. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Astor Theatre Marquee: 1951
September 20, 1951 New York City. Taken by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:42pm -

September 20, 1951 New York City. Taken by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Baby See, Baby Do: 1956
... both worked in the garment trade and she was a graduate of New York City’s FIT (a college for clothing design). There are several pictures ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 07/14/2017 - 7:47pm -

My mother was very into fashion design and sewing. Her parents had both worked in the garment trade and she was a graduate of New York City’s FIT (a college for clothing design). There are several pictures in my family’s albums of me at the sewing machine, but this is the earliest of those. I was so small I could not even sit in the chair. But I do appear to be actually sewing, just like I saw my mother do. The bizarre boy-cut hair I have was done to me by (an adult) neighbor, much to my mother’s displeasure, who wrote to her mother that the best thing about it was that my hair would grow and make it go away. Photo was probably taken by my mother on an Argus 75 box camera. Scan was made from a negative. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Ella in Person: 1953
Paramount Theatre New York City Taken August 9, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:45pm -

Paramount Theatre New York City Taken August 9, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Metropole: 1949
... this time at the Metropole, 723-7th Avenue at 48th Street, New York, NY on March 6, 1949. Thurston's favored position seems to be on the left ... 
 
Posted by DoninVa - 02/05/2016 - 7:44pm -

Another brief interlude in the Naval career of CPO James Thurston Watson, this time at the Metropole, 723-7th Avenue at 48th Street, New York, NY on March 6, 1949. Thurston's favored position seems to be on the left of any group. There are two watery names inked on the reverse: Lee Jul--ier and ----- N. Summers. A reunion of old shipmates? I can't decide if the lady is content or bored, but I find her eyes appealing. Waiter, another round of cocktails! View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
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