Italian Festa. Circa 1912 street festival in New York’s Little Italy.
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Girls on the street in New York City, 1960s. Photo by Joel Meyerowitz.
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Bowery Tattoo Parlor, circa 1940s
“Darkened by the gridwork of the Third Avenue elevated, the Bowery was a shadowy boulevard of netherworld appeals. Tattoo parlors dotted the avenue, the signs and display windows assuring potential customers what they could expect. With its shady reputation and inexpensive services, the Bowery was the Fifth Avenue of day laborers, itinerant seamen, drifters and drunks — men who could get a black eye repainted to look natural for as little as a dime.”
From New York in the Forties
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From The Archives: Found footage of the 1939 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Among the regular balloons featured at the time: The Tin Man, Santa, and Uncle Sam (introduced the year before).
No new balloons were introduced that year.
Footage finder Tom Pappalardo writes:
I bought this reel at a junk shop in Northampton, Massachusetts (I think?) about a decade ago. It sat unwatched in a box of other random Super 8/8mm reels for quite awhile, until I decided I wanted to capture some of my family’s own home movies. Since I had the projector set up, I ended up sifting through all my other ‘mystery’ reels, and this was one of them.
He captured the film with an 8mm projector and a Canon HD camera, and used After Effects for color-correction and editing. He notes that there was no audio track.
[tompappalardo / gothamist.]
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1930s
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1930s
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1930s
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1930s
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, 1963
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