Unusual vintage photo
It's just hard to imagine this, a huge locomotive coming up the avenue, with a horse and carriage to the side and a vintage (new at the time) car to the left. I love this photo. This 1929 image is described on Curbed New York like this:
"Before the West Side Improvement Project created the High Line, trains ran down Tenth and Eleventh Avenues. Here a New York Central Freight Train heads south on Eleventh. A flagman, or West Side Cowboy, should be preceding the train, but in this shot is out of the frame. The train is passing the George Kern building [near 41st Street]. Kern was a packing, wholesale, and retail distributor of pork and beef products, which was bought by Adolf Gobel, Inc., in 1927 for $10 million."
posted by Tom Falco at 10:00 AM
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1 Comments:
Wow. That is a great photo. Most cities in the U.S. have old black and white photos of downtown during the 1920s - 1950s. Many house them at their public libraries. Love seeing those photos. Nice blog work. I came across your blog while “blog surfing” using the Next Blog button on the Nav Bar located at the top of my blogger.com site. I frequently just travel around looking for other blogs which exist on the Internet, and the various, creative ways in which people express themselves. Thanks for sharing.
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