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NYC 1938-2 | Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's… | Flickr 1920s Aesthetic, Nyc Taxi, Old New York City, Old Nyc, Nyc History, Nyc Photos, Vintage Nyc, New York Vintage, Old 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.”

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Inside the speakeasies of the 1920s: The hidden drinking spots that transformed New York City's night life during the prohibition era and beyond | Daily Mail Online The Cotton Club, Vintage Foto's, Harlem Nights, Duke Ellington, Club Poster, Old New York, Cotton Club, The Roaring Twenties, Billie Holiday

Ninety years ago, there were hundreds of illegal drinking spots in New York, and the speakeasies - which were often just a hidden room with barely drinkable booze - were mostly run by gangsters.

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