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Title: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: Angry Panther on March 09, 2009, 12:10:20 PM: I hope this isn't off-topic but here is a website of color pictures of various American cities taken in the 1940's and 1950's. If your looking for a break take a look at some of these amazing pictures. Enjoy.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=142692 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=142692)
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: Confederate Kahanist on March 09, 2009, 12:54:16 PM: Man cities like those sure were better off back then. I don't think it's off topic.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: briann on March 09, 2009, 01:10:20 PM: Absolutely Beautiful. I love this kinda stuff. I wish there were some more pictures of the 30's. I found a few in color that were just amazing. I'll try and search for them.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: AsheDina on March 09, 2009, 04:49:50 PM: This was very nice.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: New Yorker on March 09, 2009, 04:55:57 PM: This is absolutely ON TOPIC. This is what we are fighting to restore! This is America's culture before it got poisoned!
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: Vito on March 09, 2009, 05:10:15 PM: Those are fantastic pics!
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: GodGunsAndGlory on March 09, 2009, 05:17:47 PM: Wow all the men wear hats.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: MasterWolf1 on March 09, 2009, 05:24:31 PM: I have photos of Flushing, NY from the 30's 40's and 50s. The day of the RKO Keith, many of you that live in this area know what I am talking about. It was an amazing great neighborhood. And of course times changed and boy have the changes slid down the toilet pipes.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: GoIsraelGo! on March 09, 2009, 05:35:37 PM: Amazing photos. I liked seeing the old cars and people dressed in the style of clothes for that period.
The Buildings were charming and unique. Thanks for sharing.

Shalom - Dox
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: firster555 on March 09, 2009, 07:17:27 PM: Oh no, I actually remember those buses in NYC when I was a kid, am I that old? I have not been to 42st & 8ave for a while but I remember the Nedicks on the corner, is it still there now?
Anyway, great pictures.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: P J C on March 09, 2009, 07:21:13 PM: Hopefully under a Sarah Palin's America we will return to these days.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: Abben on March 09, 2009, 09:46:17 PM: Quote from: MasterWolf1 on March 09, 2009, 05:24:31 PM
I have photos of Flushing, NY from the 30's 40's and 50s. The day of the RKO Keith, many of you that live in this area know what I am talking about. It was an amazing great neighborhood. And of course times changed and boy have the changes slid down the toilet pipes.

Of course I know that theater, its a shame its gone now. I never been there then the chinese bought it and ruined it. Would you mind uploading those pictures so we can all see Masterwolf?
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: arksis on March 09, 2009, 10:16:27 PM: LOVE the pics, thanks so much for sharing! How I wish wish wish we could go back to those days! :'(
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: ag337 on March 09, 2009, 11:14:07 PM: Fantastic pics.

These are definitely on-topic. These pics are the very thing we are striving for here on jtf.
This is how America should be.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: SavetheWest on March 10, 2009, 12:05:05 AM: Everyone dressed so well, men wore suits and women wore dresses. Now everyone dresses like they are at the beach, in junior high school or going to a brothel.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: ~Hanna~ on March 10, 2009, 01:37:16 AM: Quote from: SavetheWest on March 10, 2009, 12:05:05 AM
Everyone dressed so well, men wore suits and women wore dresses. Now everyone dresses like they are at the beach, in junior high school or going to a brothel.

Vintage clothing has made a comeback out here..very popular.

Some of those pics remind me of Portland, Oregon...
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: Confederate Kahanist on March 10, 2009, 02:06:31 AM: Quote from: ProJewCatholic on March 09, 2009, 07:21:13 PM
Hopefully under a Sarah Palin's America we will return to these days.

Yeah man either that or a Mark Sanford's America. Course they will continue to get worse under a Hussein America.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: MasterWolf1 on March 10, 2009, 03:31:27 AM: Quote from: Abben on March 09, 2009, 09:46:17 PM
Quote from: MasterWolf1 on March 09, 2009, 05:24:31 PM
I have photos of Flushing, NY from the 30's 40's and 50s. The day of the RKO Keith, many of you that live in this area know what I am talking about. It was an amazing great neighborhood. And of course times changed and boy have the changes slid down the toilet pipes.

Of course I know that theater, its a shame its gone now. I never been there then the chinese bought it and ruined it. Would you mind uploading those pictures so we can all see Masterwolf?

I would be glad to..

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/rko_keith.jpg)

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/RKO1.jpg)

This was the Queens Botanical Gardens in the 50's nice huh

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/settling-botanical.gif)

Queens Blvd near 63rd

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/queensblvd2.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: MasterWolf1 on March 10, 2009, 03:35:42 AM: More photos of my boro way before I was born but it looked so nice back then. Sad isn't it what it is now in many areas.

Flushing Meadow Park 1939

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/oldphotos9-1939fair.gif)

Some from Downtown Flushing

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/fire0266.jpg)

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/fire0265.jpg)

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/610x.jpg)

(http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/ilovethdance/Flushing_NY_46.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: MasterWolf1 on March 10, 2009, 03:38:28 AM: More of the Keith outside

(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d3/jpm55/rkokeiths0668-1.jpg)

The inside of the Keith

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a18/Warrengwhiz/rkofountain.jpg)

and this is what the Keith looks now

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/RKOtheatre.jpg)

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/rkokeiths2.gif)
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: briann on March 10, 2009, 03:38:53 AM: Quote from: MasterWolf1 on March 10, 2009, 03:35:42 AM
More photos of my boro way before I was born but it looked so nice back then. Sad isn't it what it is now in many areas.

Flushing Meadow Park 1939

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/oldphotos9-1939fair.gif)

Some from Downtown Flushing

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/fire0266.jpg)

Is the first picture the location of the Worlds Fair?
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: MasterWolf1 on March 10, 2009, 03:41:42 AM: I am not sure but when I gotten this photo was from 1939
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: MasterWolf1 on March 10, 2009, 03:46:24 AM: Ah yes Briann it was the World's Fair 1939.. here is a post card of it.

http://www.nycago.org/Organs/Qns/img/WorldsFair1939PC.jpg
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: MasterWolf1 on March 10, 2009, 03:49:09 AM: I have so many more old photos from Queens and NYC itself from maybe half a century ago. I would like to post them.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: New Yorker on March 10, 2009, 08:49:51 AM: Quote from: MasterWolf1 on March 10, 2009, 03:49:09 AM
I have so many more old photos from Queens and NYC itself from maybe half a century ago. I would like to post them.

Please do, I love seeing those photos! I'm going to forward them to friends.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: Angry Panther on March 10, 2009, 12:30:57 PM: Great pics of the RKO Keith! I love pictures of old movie theaters, especially marquees and balconies.
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: muman613 on March 10, 2009, 12:33:35 PM: Wow,

I lived in Flushing, NY for two years when I was a child while my father worked for the 1964-1965 Worlds Fair in Flushing. I was born in 65... Ah the memories...
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: Kylefromomaha on March 10, 2009, 02:03:03 PM: :o :coffee:

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:oI WAS OVER THERE TOO... :'(
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: Ze'ev on March 10, 2009, 02:14:10 PM: Cleveland:

River on fire in '49 (http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/croe/images/FrandAc01.jpg)

and again in '51 (http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/croe/images/FrandAc02.jpg)

and again in '52 (http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/croe/images/FrandAc04.jpg)
(http://www.clevelandmemory.org/SpecColl/croe/images/FrandAc06.jpg)

'69 (http://photos1.blogger.com/img/5/2980/1024/Firefrom50s.jpg)

All together there have been at least 10 times the river caught fire (if not more) over the past century or so...which leads us to this (http://jalcorn.net/weblog/uploads/flammable.gif)
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: SW on March 10, 2009, 02:24:35 PM: The good old times.

G-d bless America! I love America so much. I have a big American flag above my bed. A lot of my friends love America too. I love the people, the landscape, the streets, the houses, I love the American way of Life!
I know not everything is good in America.

:usa: G-d bless the holy America! :usa:

:usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :dance:
Title: Re: Pictures of American Cities at a time when America was Great
Post by: cjd on March 10, 2009, 05:21:29 PM: Quote from: briann on March 10, 2009, 03:38:53 AM
Quote from: MasterWolf1 on March 10, 2009, 03:35:42 AM
More photos of my boro way before I was born but it looked so nice back then. Sad isn't it what it is now in many areas.

Flushing Meadow Park 1939

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/oldphotos9-1939fair.gif)

Some from Downtown Flushing

(http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee128/MasterWolf1/fire0266.jpg)

Is the first picture the location of the Worlds Fair?

What a great thread. Thanks for posting the pictures of the old RKO movie house MasterWolf. I use to go there all the time. I have searched for pictures of the interior for for years and could never find any. The fountain in the lobby was taken out years before the RKO was closed. People would toss coins in it. About three or four years before they closed it they split the theater in half making the balcony one theater and the downstairs into another trying to bring in more viewers. Originally the theater was made to look like a old European courtyard and the ceiling actually looked like a night sky. It was really something to see. It was so sad to see it mauled in stages as it was and even now when I see the empty building I still feel sad. The buildings shown in the Worlds Fair pictures are from the 39 Fair they were called the Trylon and the Perisphere they were the centerpiece of the fair. I believe they sit in the same spot that the Unisphere from the 65 fair sits on today. The 65 fair was great my pop says the 39 one was even better. I was a kid but I still remember it like it was yesterday. The Fair grounds today still have one or two buildings left from each of the Fairs.