Looking at this postcard, you can almost feel the heat from the colorful lights of theater marquees and restaurants, and hear the whirling of the cable cars as they rush down Broadway.
“This view, in the centre of the theatre district, shows the usual crowd of pleasure seekers, who nightly throng the famous ‘Great White Way,'” the back of the card reads.
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Ephemeral New York 
June 5, 2014 at 11:50 am |
I don’t know what it was but in the 1970s one hot sweltering night on 42nd St and 7th Ave the crowd was so packed there was hardly any room to breathe or walk, each person pressed tightly to the other, sweating, squirming and, most probably, experiencing sexual release. I’ve written about it in my stories and novels but, alas, experienced just that once. Like New Year’s Eve in August. It was beautiful!
June 8, 2014 at 1:18 pm |
sounds pretty average there Mick (including the sexual release..I mean it was the 70’s in TS right!)
June 8, 2014 at 1:19 pm |
Forty-Duece was a treat back then wasn’t it…before Rudy made it Disney Land…
June 8, 2014 at 2:07 pm |
Meet those dancing feet/on 42nd Street…
June 10, 2014 at 12:55 am |
Streetcars. Not cable cars. No cable under the street for them to attach to. This is NYC, not San Francisco!
June 10, 2014 at 3:24 pm |
Actually, New York City did have cable cars. Stephen Crane wrote a wonderful story about them in the 1890s, riding from the Tenderloin down Broadway to City Hall Park:
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/55424/