What’s the deal with Pershing Square in front of Grand Central? There’s no square? 🤷‍♂️ This postcard shows the landscaped plaza, Pershing Square, that was originally planned to be built in 1919, named after General John J. Pershing. Unfortunately, in the next year the land was sold to a developer who decided to build an office building on the location instead, naming it the Pershing Square Building. The building was completed in 1923 and Pershing Square came to be known as the area directly under the Grand Central Viaduct. #pershingsquare #grandcentral #grandcentralterminal #midtown #parkave #postcard #historicpostcard #newyorkcity #architecture #manhattan #pershingsquarebuilding #nychistory #urbanism #42ndstreet #nyhistory #historicpostcard #urbanhistory #nycurbanism (at Grand Central Terminal) https://www.instagram.com/p/BygFXKyno7e/?igshid=1xdlgr3o4lpxs

On September 27, 1938, the Queen Elizabeth was launched. First image is of a Queen Elizabeth postcard; image 2 and 3 are from a brochure, SSHSA Archives. ⚓️ . . . . . #otd #thisdayinhistory #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #queenelizabeth #rmsqueenelizabeth #cunard #cunardline #shiphistory #maritime #sshsa #shiphistorycenter #postcard #historicpostcard #brochure #historicbrochure #archive #didyouknow (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoPjR9yD1uY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k5i3ti4jmj9t

1910 postcard showing two men standing on the Sarasota bayfront just below the railroad tracks which are at the end of Strawberry Avenue, around the current location of Ringling Blvd.

Marineland, located in Marineland, Florida, opened in 1938.

From the NYC URBANISM historic postcard collection, 30 Rockefeller Center or the RCA Building, 1951. The back of the postcard reads: “The highest building in Rockefeller Center rises seventy stories above the ground. It houses radio studios for major networks as well as restaurants and observatory at top.” #RockefellerCenter #30Rock #topoftherock #artdeco #historicpostcard (at Rockefeller Center)

Pershing Square, at 42nd and Park in front of Grand Central. This postcard shows the landscaped plaza, Pershing Square, that was originally planned to be built in 1919, named after General John J. Pershing. Unfortunately, in the next year the land would be sold to a developer who decided to build an office building on the location instead, naming it the Pershing Square Building. The building was completed in 1923 and Pershing Square came to be known as the area directly under the Grand Central Viaduct. #pershingsquare #grandcentral #grandcentralterminal #midtown #parkave #postcard #historicpostcard #newyorkcity #architecture #manhattan #pershingsquarebuilding (at Pershing Square)