Vintage Times Square - Page 9

600West218 · July 16th, 2012, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by rst22

They need to bring back some of that. The new Time Square is lacking. To Sterile. to many chain stores, and the signage is just a bunch of screens.

Sadly, you aren't describing just Times Square - you are describing all of Manhattan. It has become Disneyland with some supertalls

I can't complain about the reduction in crime but it is very much losing its character.

***desertpunk*** · July 30th, 2012, 02:45 AM

1935

http://www.screanews.us/NewYork/NewYorkBW.htm

Middle-Island · August 8th, 2012, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rst22

They need to bring back some of that. The new Time Square is lacking. To Sterile. to many chain stores, and the signage is just a bunch of screens.

Orange and red neon stamping out B-A-R-B-E-C-U-E will catch my eye longer than 50-foot LEDs. There's no character to constantly changing video-like displays. There's no warmth or charm to it, either. Fortunately, plenty of neon and smaller 'old school' static displays will probably always exist on the fringes of Times Square, and along 42nd St.

***desertpunk*** · August 19th, 2012, 03:16 AM

Broadway & 52nd St. 1927

http://www.photographium.com/broadwa...-new-york-1927

600West218 · August 21st, 2012, 04:30 PM

Intersting how when you see pictures from the teens you still see plenty of horses but in these from the 20s you don't.

I wonder when the horses finally all disappeared from the streets of New York?

Rolling_stones · August 22nd, 2012, 11:03 PM

These were the days when America offered a really enjoyable lifestyle

Middle-Island · August 25th, 2012, 07:03 AM

[Cagney voice] And it was O'Briens gym, see...where you went to box--or reduce! No pussyfooty treadmills and nautilus.

bolg · August 28th, 2012, 12:33 AM

Great posts! Can't believe how much Times Square has changed, and not for the better by the looks of it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by desertpunk

The New Amsterdam Theatre c. 1900[/b]
image hosted on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035562025@N01/

What happened to the details and decoration abovethe entrance of the theatre?

CNB30 · September 3rd, 2012, 07:54 PM

The Roxy

Hideous makeover

demolition (1960s)

***desertpunk*** · October 3rd, 2012, 05:00 AM

1956

image hosted on flickr

TIMES SQUARE 1956 Playland Vintage New York City by Christian Montone, on Flickr

image hosted on flickr

Vintage Photo NYC Times Square 1950s by Christian Montone, on Flickr

***desertpunk*** · October 3rd, 2012, 05:00 AM

1962

image hosted on flickr

1960s NYC Vintage Times Square 1962 by Christian Montone, on Flickr

***desertpunk*** · October 10th, 2012, 07:15 AM

1948

http://webradiopost.blogspot.com/201...m-old-nyc.html

***desertpunk*** · October 10th, 2012, 07:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bolg

What happened to the details and decoration abovethe entrance of the theatre?

My guess is that the ornamentaion was buffed sometime in the 1940s or '50s during the modern retrofit era and after the New Amsterdam was converted into a movie house.

***Libidito*** · December 23rd, 2012, 08:32 PM

Great pics of Times square!

***desertpunk*** · January 11th, 2013, 09:17 AM

1936

http://nycpast.tumblr.com/page/10

http://nycpast.tumblr.com/post/23674...re-information

http://nycpast.tumblr.com/post/32126805721

***desertpunk*** · January 18th, 2013, 12:04 PM

1980s - photographs by Matt Weber

http://weber-street-photography.com/

http://weber-street-photography.com/tag/checker-taxi/

http://weber-street-photography.com/...ry/cars-buses/

http://weber-street-photography.com/.../signs/page/2/

http://weber-street-photography.com/...nagers/page/2/

http://weber-street-photography.com/.../old-new-york/

Claude_Chan · January 29th, 2013, 05:39 AM

Great pics.....NY is growing.

Middle-Island · January 29th, 2013, 05:12 PM

Compared to today, the mid-'80s practically look like the mid-1960s.

CanadianDemon · January 29th, 2013, 09:01 PM

I don't think Times Squares looks sterile.... If anything it looks a lot better now then it ever did. All New York had then was bricks, concrete and large signs. Now, it's the best of everything. It had to grow up eventually anyways.

Metalog51 · February 6th, 2013, 01:01 PM

I wonder if the character of the old TS that people bemoan the loss of is specifically due to the filth, grit and shadiness (strip clubs, drug addicts, prostitutes and pimps, among other insalubrious things) or some other factor.

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CanadianDemon Registered User Join Date: May 2010 Location: Sudbury Posts: 1,103 Likes (Received): 93	I don't think Times Squares looks sterile.... If anything it looks a lot better now then it ever did. All New York had then was bricks, concrete and large signs. Now, it's the best of everything. It had to grow up eventually anyways. __________________ "Those used to light will face darkness in revolt & hatred, those used to darkness will face light in curiousity and awe." --------------------------------------------- "No man is an evil one, because every man wishes for a better planet. One just has different ways of getting there. War is there to conclude the victor." - Me

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