1920s new york

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

New York circa 1920. Palais Royal, Broadway.

Wanamaker's Department Store in NYC at Christmas time, 1930’s.

Lower east side NY apartments c.1920s/30s

The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. The Breakers, a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, belonging to the wealthy Vanderbilt family of railroad industry tycoons. A Tour Through the Gilded Age New York The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the North and West. As…

This picture is a primary source which shows women who were demonstrating against alcohol. A lot of violence against women is because of alcohol so that is the reason for them to demonstrate.

a-socialite-passes-onlookers-on-park-avenue 1928 ?

These amazing photographs were taken by German photographer Franz Grasser, who is better known for his photos from the Eastern Front. Befo...