Orange County Archives:
South Coast Plaza carousel, 1989
SubtropicBob:
Gil Cohen cover art, Executioner #80 RUNNING HOT (1985)
SubtropicBob:
MALE, Sept 1961, art by Mort Kunstler
SubtropicBob:
MAN'S LIFE, March 1959. Cover by Wil Hulsey
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So let's say we have a time machine which allows us to view Battery Park City under construction, the very end of the abandoned West Side Highway, West Street and the World Trade Center on a misty, rainy day in March 1975. New York.
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A cropped portion of a 110 film slide showing an old Staten Island Ferry plying the waters of New York Harbor while the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Empire State Building hover in the distance. New York. April 1973
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Independence Plaza North going up in what is now Tribeca in Lower Manhattan. Looking south from near the West Side Highway to the recently completed World Trade Center. New York. June 1973
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Construction of Independence Plaza North, cobblestoned West Street and Lower Manhattan from under the elevated West Side Highway. New York. June 1973.
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Lower Manhattan, the Battery and the Circle Line from the Staten Island Ferry. New York. 1954
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View from Pier A's fire escape. Battery Park City landfill, West Side Highway, World Trade Center and lots of colorful 1970s cars on a rainy, foggy day. New York. 1975
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Harlem from Morningside Heights. Morningside Drive and 118th Street in late afternoon light. New York. Sept 1973
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19th century Harlem tenements illuminated by the setting sun in late afternoon. West 118th Street slices through the view to the horizon. Con Edison's Big Allis power plant is visible in the distance. New York. Sept 1973.
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Walking down the rusty, abandoned 1930s West Side Highway with the World Trade Center and NY Telephone Company at right, West Street below and Battery Park City landfill at left. New York. April 1975
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From my dad's office on the 58th floor of the World Trade Center toward the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge and the East River by smoggy morning light. New York. April 1975
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The East River, Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge on a smoggy day from the 58th floor of the World Trade Center. 1975. New York
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1960s and 1970s car heaven. I spy a 1960s Chevy Impala, a 1971 Camaro, a Chevy Nova, a Datsun (?), Cadillac, a GMC Flxible bus, a 1960s Dodge Van and lots of VW Beetles. What do U see? Brooklyn Battery Tunnel traffic. New York. March 1973
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Wish I still had the negative of this. World Trade Center, Battery Park City landfill and the Hudson River on a gloomy afternoon just before a thunderstorm from the Staten Island Ferry. New York. June 1974
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Another view of the abandoned West Side Highway. New York Telephone Company building and 6 World Trade Center in front of it. (the new WTC is where building 6 used to be). Some old piers still existed on the left. New York. June 1974.
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From the era of great NYC movies like "The French Connection", "The 7-Ups", "The Taking of Pelham 123", I was inspired as a teen to wander and photograph the demise of the city. Abandoned West Side Highway with a stolen, burned out Camaro. New York. 1975
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Hey, is that Theo Kojak sitting in the brown 1970s Cadillac, staking out a sleazy suspect in a battered and forlorn old industrial neighborhood in Brooklyn by the East River? Could be! New York. April 1976
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A foggy day on the harbor from the Staten Island Ferry looking toward Lower Manhattan. An orange ship and its tugboat ply the waves. The Twin Towers of the brand new World Trade Center stand tall and proud. New York. June 1974
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More cloudy day wanderings in grubby old post-industrial New York. Looking south at Lower Manhattan from the abandoned New York Central Railroad (better known now as the "High Line") from Washington Street. New York. March 1982
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Sunset reflections on the East River and Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn. The twin towers of the World Trade Center stand tall and proud as a lone seagull flies overhead. New York. 1973
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The very core of the World Trade Center visible in this slide taken from the Empire State Building. The classic MetLife building at left. A little smoggy, but not too bad for the times. New York. May 1971
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The World Trade Center, Battery Park City under construction, Pier A, Battery Park and the vintage spires of Lower Manhattan. Taken on a gray, rainy day from the deck of a three day "Cruise to Nowhere". New York. Aug 1986
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Exchange Place in Jersey City with an old girlfriend of mine and the World Trade Center behind her. Dec. 1979
