Old New York

I love this thread! The architecture, and the use of steel and cast iron was amazing. I am always awe struck when visiting New York. The simplest things such as support beams in most buildings were so artfully embellished. If the construction industry was the same today as it was even thirty years ago, I would have considered staying in the masonry field. Simplistic styles and heavy and ugly building materials caused me to lose interest and physical ability to continue.

Don

Anthony.  Is that Cranford junction

Yes Ben Cranford Jct with the SIRT making his drop offs and pick ups. Here are a few more shots I came across. 

Does anyone know what the building is on the top left of the photo?  Looks like the sign says N.D.C.O

Judging by the cars and gas pumps, looks like it is part of a gas station. There is another sign. "Sunoco," to the extremely left. I think you have NOCO and the other letters are missing!

 Tom

Sunoco gas station. New drop lane. 

Thanks, didn't realize that S and U were missing from the SUNOCO sign.

M.D.,

  Still it is a nice picture. You have what looks like a crossing shanty/ gate house (see the nice stop sign). There is a signal on the pole. In the distance there is some sort of coaling facility.

 

Tom

Bob, 

   Looks like the studio for radio station WINS is upstairs in one of your photos. WINS still exists today. My father listened to it all the time.

 

Tom

1010 WINS RADIO...

 

 

 

 

 

Great History lesson - I have lived in NJ for over 50 year and learned more about the Tri-State Breweries reading these posts. So much for the Micro Brewery. Where is Rolling Rock? I know that is PA but............

Rolling Rock is brewed in Newark NJ now .....  Anheuser-Busch 

So much for brewed using the clear,rolling waters of latrobe,pa...
On Feb 15, 2015 7:52 PM, "O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum" <alerts@hoop.la>
wrote:

WINS Radio You tugged a string in my heart!

 

Ahh yes,

Now that we did all the beer commercial songs and sayings lets go to the Radio. Who can ever forget WINS Radio. Rock & Roll, teenage girls, Allan Freed, Jack Lacy, Murray the K. The Brooklyn Fox Theater, street corner singing, candy stores, juke boxes, 45 rpm records, portable radios and reel to reel tape recorders. How about guys singing in the subway trying to get the echo. The there was station number 2. WMGM with the curly headed kid in the 3rd row. WINS top competition. The whole thing is a blast from the past. Happy times indeed.

 

Listen to Lacy the man with the style.

The next time you won't have to guess.

Just set your dial to 1010 a while. To W- I- N -S

 

WMCA GOOD GUYS too...

 

 

So lets take a ride on the Staten Island Ferry before the WTC and the Verrazano Bridge. The ferry trip cost a nickel then. Its a better bargain today as it is free of charge. In this film, the boats carried aitomobiles . Only road routes wjere the three New Jersey Bridges. From Brooklyn and Manhattan it was by boat. Lots of Harbor traffic in this video . Also a couple of Ocean Liners including the SS France.

 

The Boat we are on is of the Mary Murray Class, There were three, Mary Murray, Gold Star Mother and Miss New Tork , Also in operation on the run where some twin stackers, perhaps Tompkinsville, Dongan Hills or Father Knickerbocker. Enjoy the ride.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja_KeCi9BPI

very cool video! As a young lad, my family and I would drive to long Island each summer for our vacation at our grandparents' home in Long Beach. We watched the progress of the Verrazano bridge. I don't remember how long it took, I just remember marveling at its massiveness. At the time, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world.

Don

Only to find out later that some of it was just dumped like garbage in the Meadowlands.