#13 aug.

Housewives holding placards as they picket the First Avenue Retail Market, on 1st Avenue and 10th Street, August 13, 1948. It was the first of a series of demonstrations by the First Avenue Consumers and Tenants Council to protest high meat prices.

Shuffleboard at Orchard Beach, August 13, 1938.

Members of the Original Grandma’s Night Out Club made a point of hitting Coney Island’s Steeplechase Park at least twice a year. Here, on August 13, 1954, three of them—Tillie Tilp, left, Ruth Teesel, and Kitty Whitman--got a workout on the high-wheel bicycle.

Highway maintenance, Queens and Woodhaven Boulevards, August 13, 1926. Below, a shot of the same intersection in September, 2022.

An immigrant family on the dock at Ellis Island, having just passed the rigid examination for entry into the "land of promise," August 13, 1925.

Luna Park razed by fire, Coney Island, August 13, 1944. The next day, the afternoon paper PM had this to say:

"Our photographer climbed up on one of the big slides to get this general view of Luna Park, Coney Island, half of which was razed by fire Saturday afternoon. Arrow points to 'Dragon's gorge' where the blaze started. Loss was estimated at $500,000. When this picture was taken yesterday afternoon, firemen still were spraying the stray sparks in the ruins."

The entrance towers to Luna Park are on the upper left, the Wonder Wheel beyond. The 150-foot Wheel began operation in 1920. The fire destroyed more than half of Luna Park. Although some of the rides were repaired, wartime rationing of building supplies prevented a complete reconstruction. Instead, visitors could view the ruins for ten cents. Luna Park closed completely in 1946.

The National League marked its 60th anniversary on August 13, 1936 with a game between men taking the roles of two of its original teams, the New York Knickerbockers and the Brooklyn Atlantics. Here, Henry Wisniewsky of the Knicks slides safely into a base in the first inning at the Polo Grounds. No info on the name of the nattily dressed umpire.