Pics from a Streetmap from Mid-Manhattan 1962
RCA
Times Square
Penn Station
Grand Central Station with Panam Building
Hotels on Fifth Avenue
United Nations Headquarters
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WoW,great stuff. Pre OSHA construction practices.
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Moved three posts to vintage thread.
Just on a side note, but even though its a photo thread, it could also include videos. Videos are just frames or 1000’s or millions of photos stitched to showcase movement.
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All photos are dated 1961.
Rare color view of Trinity Church and 1 Wall Street with 70 Broadway, once the world’s tallest
Brand new building at 80 Pine Street
80 Pine and the 60 Wall Tower with other ghostly lowrises
Chase Manhattan Building: On the left is the National Bank of Commerce Building (3 yrs before demolition) and on the right is 2 Chase Plaza, with the lobby being gutted
80 Pine, 70 Pine, and 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza
Chase Plaza from Liberty Street, notice the lobby of 2 Chase has been stripped away
View of Chase Plaza’s ledge on William Street; work on the south half of the plaza hadn’t even begun
Lobby of 1 Chase Plaza: notice the scaffolding, and the buildings in the background still being demolished for the south plaza space. This was the rare point that 1 Chase still stood on Cedar Street.
Corner of Liberty and William. Notice the two Guaranty Trust Buildings on the right, 3 years before their demolition for 140 Broadway
Sundown on Manhattan
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With the whole Covid-19 shit starting to hit the fan in nyc, thought I’d share some vintage pics from the last global pandemic of this scale; the spanish flu.
An new york elevator worker and street sweeper
NYC traffic cop during the pandemic
Weeky bulletin during pandemic
From 1918, during its peak the pandemic was killing upto 800 people a day in New York City alone
Armistice day 1918 in NYC. Guess social distancing wasnt a thing back then
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It’s so weird how back in those days everyone was so tough. All of those people surfing through the crowds with a deadly sickness going around, wearing suits and dresses in the Summer (not relating this to the flu), and balancing 2 feet on a metal beam not even 2 feet wide hundreds of feet high. Nowadays we got people complaining about a virus saying it’s incredibly dangerous though they’re really just the general public sitting at home.
The world is incredibly sensitive now
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I’m sorry thomas but this isn’t the smartest thing you’ve said.
I think it is a bigger show of strength to suffer through self isolation and save lives rather than go out and keep living while the most vulnerable die.
Over 20000 people died of the Spanish Flu in NYC and COVID19 has a higher mortality rate and the city is much larger than 100 years ago.
In the whole of the US 500,000 people died.
They don’t look so tough now do they
If there is anything that we should be sensitive about it is the risk of a global pandemic killing millions of people
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My last statement is a fact though
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It a opinion. Don’t forget that we gone through 9/11, The Afghan war (longest war in America history), Iraq war, War against ISIS, and multiple mass shootings. Just because you don’t see suffering doesn’t mean it not happening.
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Ok, believe what you guys want. I’m not denying that its here, I know it is because I hear about it everyday and I don’t want to. I’m not scared and I don’t care if I get it, I’m just ready for this event to pass like the others. I stayed away from the media just as I said I would and I feel fine. How hard is it to stay clean and wash your hands?
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Lol people back then weren’t “though”, they died (on average) at like 45.
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I was only talking about skills and everyday things, not age. Context will always go different ways in a different mind
Millions died during the 1918 pandemic, the people back then had terrible quality of life. No running toilets meant disease was rampant, the odds of you dying on a work site were far higher than they were now, there was no such thing as a weekend or and 8 hour work day, life in general back then sucked… You want to romanticize that era and go live it, be my guest.
I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make.
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View from the Empire State Building looking northwest 1949.
Madison Square Park 1949
Skyline from Brooklyn 1949
Two Pics from 1905
Market Street view to the City Hall Philadelphia.
42nd Street looking to Manhattan Hotel and Times Building in the distance.
Pics from my Private Collection 100% Orginal.
The Streetmap comes from mine Collection
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From a 1961 architectural magazine on ebay
Rendering of Chase Manhattan Plaza
At left, a snippet of a view of Chase with 1 Liberty Street, an overlap that happened for only 13 years.
At right, a familiar downtown view in color
Cedar and William Streets, looking up at Chase and the old Wadsworth Building. Ironically Chase being in the photo signals that the Wadsworth Building is doomed.
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Maybe 1993 can be considered vintage. 
Anyways, the city has literally changed so much, I suppose it was a different world back than.
Ok let’s get to the meat of things. 1911! Make full screen and put sound up.
The 4k, 1911 one is almost surreal.
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A Video from 1930 over Chrysler Building construction
Skyline Video 1903
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Constructions Detail from the old Skyscraper American Surety Co Building
The estimated maximum weight of the Building was some 26000 Tons, and this was transmitted to bad-rock about 72 ft. below the sidewalk-grade by means of brick piers and pneumatic Caissons. Thirteen Steel caissons were employed, whith a total distributing area of 3575 square feet the pressure per square foot thus being about 14500 lbs. All of the caissons were rectangular, the largest being 11 ft by 42 ft. in area and 9 ft. high, supporting four columns. The brick piers are about 30 ft. hight, with steel grillage beams on the tops for the support of the column bases.
Foundation Pier
Typical Framing Plan
Typical Framing Plan Gillender Building 1897
The next part coming soon…
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