#aug. 5

An aerial view of lower Manhattan looking toward Brooklyn on August 5, 1958. Identifiable buildings, complexes, and sections include: the Woolworth Building, City Hall, the Municipal Building, the U.S. Courts building, the Al Smith housing project, Little Italy, Chinatown, the Bowery, the Fulton Fish Market, the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

A newsstand "horse-parlor:" a surveillance camera catches the placing of an illegal bet at a newsstand on the corner of 57th Street and Sixth Ave., August 5, 1942.

Harry Houdini in a casket shortly before it was sealed for submersion, August 5, 1926.

Barbara Shermund, A Day at the Beach, a cover for The New Yorker, published August 5, 1944.

It's unusual to see a person of color so prominently featured in a mainstream publication at the time, even if it was as a servant. She is reading, though, which suggests that she's a more serious person than her sunbathing mistress.

Aviators were lionized in the 1920s and 1930s, even when they screwed up. That can be the only explanation for why the city threw a ticker tape parade for Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn on July 17, 1938, with the stated intention of flying to California. He wound up in Dublin instead.

When Corrigan returned to New York (by ship), he was met with wild acclaim. On August 5, he was the hero of a ticker tape parade. In fact, attendance at the parade exceeded that of the parade given to Charles Lindbergh eleven years earlier.

Eventually, it became known that the flight to Ireland was no mistake at all, but the story was too good to let die.

I’ll welcome your heart

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