Millennial Guys

Cecil F. S. Newman

- Straßenszene Berlin

Bystanders in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral getting ready to watch the Easter Parade, 1930. Click/tap for a big picture.

Thousands attended the 100th anniversary services at Grant's tomb, April 27, 1922. Marshal Joffre, commander of French forces in World War I, addressed the crowd.

Ad boasting about the city's transition from trolleys to buses, probably from the 1930s.

In January 1935, Mayor LaGuardia had pronounced trolleys “as dead as sailing ships." The big switch from rail to rubber began at that time, although trolleys would hang on in other boroughs for another twenty years. Nowadays, trolleys (which exist in modern form in many European cities) are seen as a progressive alternative to fossil fuel-burning buses.

The Park Avenue Society Fair, for the benefit of crippled children, opened on May 16, 1922. Left to right: Mrs. Harry Martin, Mrs. Robert Lovett, Mrs. Charles Higgins, and Mrs. Allan Bakewell, whose main worry is to sell at good prices all the peanuts they can.

Waiting at Penn Station, 1949.

Loew's State Theater, June 1930.

George Mann, who took this picture, was half of the "Barto & Mann" act billed on the marquee.

Waiting for the bus is so boring unless you have someone to talk to, May 31, 1949