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- Penn Station: 1910
- New York circa 1910. "Pennsylvania Station, track level, showing stairway and elevators." 8x10 inch glass ... Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Penn's Passive Lighting Penn Station was notable for its extensive use of cast glass prism lights in ...
Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 5:42pm -
- Penn Station: 1910
- Circa 1910. "Pennsylvania station, main concourse, New York." Silver gelatin glass transparency, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Present Penn Station Interesting comment on the old Penn Station from Anonymous. I never experienced the old one, but I'll agree ...
Posted by Dave - 07/26/2012 - 12:36pm -
- City Hall: 1910
- ... buildings are a thing of the past!
Curse of Billy Penn's hat Said to be the reason why Philly sports teams lose, as ... as a disc jockey on Philly's WHAT-FM. It was a 24/7 jazz station with all white DJs. Our AM (a studio window away) was all R&B and ...
Posted by Dave - 05/16/2023 - 3:34pm -
- Penn Station: 1910
- New York ca. 1910. "Pennsylvania Station. Track level, main and exit concourses, stair entrance." 8x10 inch ...
*sniffle* Every photo I see of the original Penn Station is like a little knife in my heart. As someone who didn't move to ... "Conquering Gotham: A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels" by Jill Jonnes.
We don't need no ...
Posted by Dave - 08/02/2012 - 5:22pm -
- Hamilton House: 1910
- ... this building almost makes up for the loss of the original Penn Station ... almost.
Awnings Some awning salesman must have made his ...
Posted by Dave - 02/05/2024 - 11:07am -
- Knickerbocker Trust: 1904
- ... and simplified ... a Faustian bargain that spared it a Penn Station type date with the wreckers.
Earlier Knicks Knickerbocker Trust ...
Posted by Dave - 01/24/2024 - 1:59pm -
- Neither Snow Nor Rain: 1900
- ... Building is still going strong.
Soon to be the New Penn Station The Post Office was designed by McKim, Mead and White to complement ...
Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 5:46pm -
- Wartime Washington: 1942
- ... close scrutiny. To paraphrase Vincent Scully on New York's Penn Station, once you entered like a god; now you scuttle in like an small animal. ...
Posted by Dave - 01/07/2024 - 12:07pm -
- Penn Station: 1910
- Pennsylvania Station in New York as seen from Gimbel's department store circa 1910. George ... on the early historic preservation movement, the original Penn Station (as shown in the photo) was torn down in the 1960s for a really ... the trains are, there are some remnants of the original Penn Station, a large grandfather clock, some old signs stating where the ...
Posted by Dave - 09/07/2011 - 6:18pm -
- Petro-Hut: 1920
- Washington circa 1920. "Penn Oil Co., Massachusetts Avenue & Wisconsin Avenue station." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
Neato ... Massachusetts and Garfield Street NW:
Penn Oil I love the gas station photos Shorpy has been featuring. Nice ...
Posted by Dave - 09/11/2011 - 4:25pm -
- Penn Station 1.0
- "Thirty-Second Street entrance, Pennsylvania Station, New York." The original Penn Station in the final stages of construction, circa 1910. 8x10 inch dry ... Jersey landfill with its driver asking, "Where do you want Penn Station?"
Cover you eyes, Velma One of those ladies leaning on ...
Posted by Dave - 01/26/2016 - 11:50am -
- Fill Er Up: 1920
- Washington, D.C., 1920. "Penn Oil Company, Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol." View full size. ... in various places around town. Thank you for early gas station photos, Shorpy!
Penn Oil This gas station occupies space that is now the National Guard ...
Posted by Dave - 08/07/2012 - 10:12pm -
- Candy Soda Drugs Kodaks: 1910
- ... New York circa 1910-1915. "N.Y. Drug Store, Pennsylvania Station." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. ... sprinkler?
Beautifully artistic candy displays!
Penn Station Chrome I found the color postcard based on this image --
...
Posted by Dave - 07/29/2012 - 10:11am -
- Bustling Baltimore: 1917
- Baltimore, Maryland, circa 1917. "Union Station showing Charles Street and Jones Falls." 8x10 inch glass negative, ... behind and to the left of Union Station.
It's Penn Station now and still in full daily use, including as a main stop on ... would make a run from our depot on Calvert & Centre to Penn Station. The usual cargo was mainly express packages and barrels of ...
Posted by Dave - 07/20/2012 - 7:18pm -
- Penn Station: 1912
- New York, 1912. "Pennsylvania Station, east facade." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing ...
Posted by Dave - 07/30/2018 - 9:34am -
- Ghost Office: 1912
- ... the plate is big (5 x 7 inches). - Dave]
The New Penn Station This wonderful building is slated to be renovated into the New Penn ...
Posted by Dave - 12/02/2021 - 2:39pm -
- Guaranty Loan: 1905
- ... Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The Penn Station of Minneapolis This building - known to most Minneapolitans as the ...
Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 1:36pm -
- Cat Park: 1958
- ... Street side of the street, across from the north side of Penn Station. Of course, with more recent buildings in place it's impossible to get ...
Posted by Dave - 11/18/2021 - 1:43pm -
- Central City: 1941
- ... photo?
[ Stay tuned! - Dave]
Not exactly Penn Station The two red brick buildings to the immediate right were station ...
Posted by Dave - 11/16/2019 - 1:08pm -
- Diaper Depot: 1942
- ... "New York, New York. Waiting for trains at Pennsylvania Station." Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Old Penn Station As someone who has to regularly commute through the "new" Penn ...
Posted by Dave - 04/28/2017 - 10:59am -
- The Gas Shack: 1920
- Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Penn Oil Co., Columbia Road station between 17th & 18th." National Photo Company Collection glass ... the shack? It looked old even THEN!
[The sign reads PENN OIL. - Dave]
Yikes. "Unescorted lady motorists always welcome. ...
Posted by Dave - 09/13/2011 - 9:40pm -
- Transitorium: 1910
- New York circa 1910. "Pennsylvania Station. Concourse showing gates, indicators." 8x10 inch glass negative, ...
also, "Overlooking a wine rack inside Penn Wine & Spirits is a segment of vintage glass bricks, once a floor and now a ceiling."
-- Penn Station's Buried Glory (NYDN)
What? No scissor lifts or JLG boom ...
Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 5:42pm -
- Hollywood & Vine: 1963
- ... 90's it didn't look as pretty as this. Awesome 1959 Ford station wagon driving with the back window open (you'd get a ticket for that ... specifically at FW's headquarters in Delaware Water Gap, Penn., and at his Shawnee-on-Delaware, Penn., home.
By the way--Fred is one ...
Posted by tterrace - 06/24/2009 - 5:04pm -
- Pennsylvania Station: 1910
- ... "Track level, main and exits, concourses, Pennsylvania Station." 8x10 dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full ... Fantasy The marvelous steel arches and glass vaults of Penn Station's concourse are just as decorative and "artificial" as the ...
Posted by Dave - 08/01/2012 - 5:42pm -
- Way Station: 1943
- ... Illinois. Waiting for trains in the concourse of the Union Station." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. View full size. ... was the equivalent to the train shed of other stations. Penn Station's concourse had a similar beams, girders and rivets appearance. If ...
Posted by Dave - 03/13/2015 - 10:16am -
- Q Street Gas: 1920
- Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Penn Oil, Q Street, Georgetown." View full size. National Photo Company ... Congress.
27th and Q, NW Ads from 1920 indicate a Penn Oil station located at 27th and Q streets NW.
I've added this photo to my ...
Posted by Dave - 09/11/2011 - 6:51pm -
- Loco: 1890
- Circa 1890. "Mexican Central Railway train at station." Dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. Detroit Publishing ... is the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Penn. The circular builder's plate on the side of the smokebox was a trademark ...
Posted by Dave - 07/17/2012 - 10:26pm -
- Planes, Trains: 1935
- June 12, 1935. "Newark passenger station, Pennsylvania Railroad. Waiting room, sunlight and passengers. McKim, ... plane to either L.A. or San Francisco.
As Newark Penn Station opened in 1935, I expect that's why there's a plane on the wall. ... thanks to an extensive restoration in the 1980's. Newark Penn features four levels of interconnections: Cabs and buses at street level; ...
Posted by Dave - 02/27/2014 - 10:03am -
- Wayne Camera: 1970s
- ... and early 70s, NYC's Willoughby's on West 32nd Street by Penn Station, where he knew some of the staff very well. His cameras of choice were ...
Posted by Desdinova - 04/20/2013 - 12:09pm -
- North Terminal Station: 1890s
- 1890s. "North Terminal Station, Boston, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit ... I am constantly amazed at how poorly the current North station is designed. Now to realize that it was once a far more attractive and accessible building just rubs salt in that wound.
Like Penn station in NY, this is a piece of history that I almost wish I never knew. ...
Posted by Dave - 07/26/2012 - 4:58pm -