Weekend, October 14-15, 2023 – A DAY OF SHOPPING WITH LUNCH AT SCHRAFFT’S

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OUR HEARTS GO OUR TO OUR FRIENDS, FAMILIES AND NEIGHBORS IN ISRAEL

FROM THE ARCHIVES

WEEKEND, OCTOBER 14-15,  2023

SHOPPING IN MANHATTAN

A WHILE BACK

ISSUE#  1100

SHORPY

HISTORICAL AMERICAN


PHOTO ARCHIVE

Enjoy this walk thru city shopping from years past.

New York circa 1931. “R.H. Macy & Co. Building, Broadway & 34th Street.” The original “big box” retailer. Irving Underhill photo. View full size.

Circa 1903. “Shoppers on Sixth Avenue, New York City.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

June 9, 1948. New York. “Schrafft’s, Esso Building, Rockefeller Center. 51st Street exterior. Carson & Lundin architects.” Ubiquitous in urban areas, slightly upscale, tastefully decorated — Schrafft’s was something like the mid-century restaurant version of Starbucks. Gottscho-Schleisner photo. View full size.

New York circa 1910-1915. “N.Y. Drug Store, Pennsylvania Station.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1906. “14th Street Store.” Several subplots here, involving roofs, windows and hair. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.

June 20, 1952. “Scarves by Vera, 417 Fifth Avenue, New York. Vera at door. Marcel Breuer, architect.” If you hope to see some actual scarves here, you are hopelessly unsophisticated. Gottscho-Schleisner photo. View full size.

April 28, 1949. “Barton’s, business at 790 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Exterior.” 4×5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

Jan. 17, 1953. New York. “Schrafft’s, New Chrysler Building. Interior IV.” Highly developed example of a genre of eatery once known as “quick service lunch,” now more generally called “fast food.” Gottscho-Schleisner photo. View full size.

September 24, 1944. “Jay Thorpe Inc., West 57th Street, New York City. General view to entrance from rear.” A retail fairyland of fire sprinklers and cove lights. Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

December 1942. “New York. Corset display at R.H. Macy & Co. department store during the week before Christmas.” Behold the $12.29 “average figure” corselette. Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.

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