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zimwizdotcom: She Loves To Run
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JFGryphon: Reading in the Attic -- 1955
Matt Lavin: Mountain big sagebrush steppe at the western edge of the sagebrush biome
John N Hoang: 'Airborne'
WAVZ 13: Places that Manhattan tourists DIDN'T visit. Standing in Long Island City, Queens, looking west to the Newtown Creek and some of the factories which lined its shores. One of the Greenpoint gas tanks at left. New York. 1934
Christoph Fischer: The Unveiling
WAVZ 13: 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.
Matt Lavin: Cirsium scariosum
Canadapt: 'Let's Dance'
WAVZ 13: Strip away all the modern tall glass-box corporate buildings, the South Street Seaport and you're left with a Lower East Side of mostly decrepit 19th century brick buildings and a series of large rusting piers on the East River. New York. 1967
WAVZ 13: What an intense dream last night! I was back in 1930 and took the Staten Island Ferry with a girlfriend named Daphne. As the boat cruised past the Battery, we saw people strolling as well as Castle Clinton when it still contained the New York Aquarium.
WAVZ 13: A rare aerial view of the World Trade Center's construction zone. The North Tower is about 12 floors tall while the South Tower has just begun. Abandoned 19th century piers line the Hudson. New York. 1969.
WAVZ 13: Hey mac, get me to Brooklyn and step on it!! West 34th Street looking east toward Midtown, the New Yorker Hotel and the Empire State Building. Based on the cars, this is from around 1950.
WAVZ 13: Get behind the wheel of the All New, Better than ever Pontiac Silver Streak! Mighty long on looks and Dollar for Dollar, you just can't beat its sleek modern styling! The open road is at your fingertips when you're behind the wheel of a brand new Pontiac!
WAVZ 13: More 1970s fun in Manhattan and Jersey City. A late afternoon view of the NYC skyline including the unfinished World Trade Center from the wasteland which used to exist where Morris Canal Park is now. Fall 1972.
Dirk Broddin: girl caught shining in aquarium lighting
WAVZ 13: Construction view of the original World Trade Center with the North Tower and the still-open West Side Highway in the background. Looks like the PATH train tube is exposed across the worksite. New York. 1967.
Canadapt: 'Here's looking at you kid ...'
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WAVZ 13: Yours Truly at age 4 trying to catch a fish while laying on the pier which use to jut out into Long Island Sound by the Villa Rosa guest houses. The background shows many of the old 19th century cottages which use to line the shore. Milford CT. Oct. 1963
WAVZ 13: My sister and I sit on my Dad's 1965 Pontiac Bonneville while I snap a shot of my father while he simultaneously takes ours. In one of the parking lots at JFK airport. Queens, New York. July 1972.