#57th St.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A lady passing by the shop of Mr. John, milliner to the stars, is attracted by an extravagant model in the window. 57th Street, ca. 1950.

Photo: Al Barry via Three Lions/Getty Images

#vintage New York #1950s #Al Barry #hats #Mr. John #millinery #shop #store #boutique #window shopping #hatmaker #browsing #vintage NYC #57th St.

[seanmccaughan]

Morningside's Historic Laura Cushman House Hits the Market for $6 Million

The house comes with lots of fantastic architectural details to match its history.

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#589 NE 57th St #Features #historic preservation #Laura Cushman #Laura Cushman House #Mediterranean Revival #On the Market #real estate

[chrisgoesrock]

Brooklyn, Boro Park, 57th st near 13th Ave. John relaxing on fence stoop 1975

#Brooklyn #Boro Park #57th st near 13th Ave #John Relaxing #1975

[twixnmix]

Tina Turner and Ann-Margret attend the "Tommy" premiere party at the 57th St./6th Ave. subway station in New York City on March 18, 1975.

Photos by Sal Traina

#tina turner #ann margret #roger smith #tommy #1975 #nyc #new york city #1970s #1970s fashion #1990s vintage #pop culture #ike & tina turner

[detroitlib]

Portrait of singer Basil Spears. Autographed on front: "To Stewart Thompson. It's a pleasure to know you. Hoping our friendship lasts forever. Sincerely, Basil Spears, '47." Printed on front: "Bruno of Hollywood, NYC." Stamped on back: "Thanks for credit, Bruno of Hollywood, N.Y.C. 154 W. 57th St., New York City, N.Y."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

#basil spears #music #1947 #singers #vintage #vintage music #bruno of hollywood #detroit public library

[popculturelib]

Fanzine Friday #14: The 3rd Season Supplement to the Star Trek Concordance (1973)

Happy 57th anniversary to Star Trek: The Original Series!

Star Trek is one of the most influential fandoms on modern fan culture in the United States. It's where television fandom split from literary science fiction and where slash fiction was created and popularized.

At the Browne Popular Culture Library, we have hundreds of Star Trek zines, dating from the years TOS was airing all the way to the present day. The 3rd Season Supplement is one of those. Its precursor, the Star Trek Concordance of People, Places and Things (1969) by Dorothy Jones and Bjo Trimble, is a comprehensive guide to the episodes, cast, characters, and other information about the first two seasons of TOS and the world of Star Trek. The supplement, as the title implies, was made after the third season aired.

Both the Concordance and the supplement have a long, complicated history in the Star Trek fandom that we highly recommend reading about. What grabbed our attention about the supplement, however, was a paragraph from the editorial that discusses the challenges Trimble faced:

First, one needs a bit of cooperation from the show itself; yet I could not get even the loan of a script from anyone in the ST offices, and had to wait until the show was on the air, to tape it, and then try to reconstruct the show from that. Try it sometime; it's more fun than biting fingernails, anyway. Then they didn't show "Turnabout Intruder" until well into the re-runs, and I had to wait until the network dropped that shoe; had there been any cooperation from the people over at Paramount, the wait would not have been necessary, but... By the time the show came on, I was deeply involved with other things.... Each time I thought I could get back to the project, something else came up. For one thing, this involves pasting up the whole job at once, or risk losing bits and pieces of the copy. So far, I have managed to take up the den, the living room and the dining room, with a bit of overlap into the breakfast room (by the way, some people wonder why we think we need a bigger house!).

Quite the difference from how fandom in the 21st century often works, with our quick access to IMDb, Wikipedia, and easy rewatching, isn't it?

The Star Trek Concordance, its supplement, and entries about later shows and films have been professionally published several times since the 1970s. We have several editions available for library patrons to use in their research.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

#bgsu #libraries on tumblr #star trek #star trek concordance #star trek tos #fanzine friday #zines

[vignellicenter]

Please join us for our next Open Houses! March 20-21, 2024 10am-4pm.

The NYC subway map that never was. Or at least it was never implemented.

The NYC Subway graphics are some of the most requested artifacts from the Vignelli archives. We acquired this unique “verbal map” aka “The Directory” aka the “How to get there” map in 2022. Our archivist put it on display for the first time in 50 years at our Open Houses in September 2022!

 “The Verbal Map described how to reach a destination, which train to get, where to change, and when to get out.” – Massimo Vignelli [comment on Michael Bierut’s essay “Mr. Vignelli Map” for Design Observer]

Printed on very glossy paper in full color, this map is large like the station size maps. Printed in two parts [top and bottom] each half measuring 29.5” x 47.5”.

In the Graphic Standards Manual on Page 3 “Diagram of Basic Sign Distribution” it describes the various maps to be installed:

Maps: System maps (implemented, the famous one),

neighborhood map (not implemented),

‘How to get there’ map (not implemented but we have the prototype!)

From the Graphics Standards Manual on page 75, “The Directory”:

“The directory is designed to help a passenger find his “Destination” and “How to get there” quickly and easily. Each station will have its own directory listing all other station alphabetically and numerically. Each station will be followed by the color disc designating he trains that stop there. If there is no direct train, transfer information will follow the station name. This directory will be placed at all important points in the subways station both inside and outside the turnstiles.”

We also have the Dekalb Av Signage Study “analyzed and completed by Joan Charysyn and Virginia Macintosh” for Unimark International in 1971 which shows a mockup of the various maps and states “A directory and three maps will eventually be in use in all subway stations.”

Be sure to join us for our next Open Houses and see what other surprises you can discover! Learn more opn our events page: https://www.rit.edu/events/vignelli-center-spring-open-house

Image descriptions:

Detail of “verbal map” aka “The Directory” aka the “How to get there” map

image of entire map

Video clip of map

Photo of Open Houses with logo

vintage 35mm slide of detail of “verbal map”

NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual pg. 75 “The Directory”

NYCTA Graphics Standards Manual pg. 75 “The Directory”

Slideshow of Dekalb St study: coversheet, Directory from Grand Central, System Map, Neighborhood map, and 5 Boroughs map

Vintage 35mm slide of 57th Street station signage

Vintage 35mm slides of 57th Street station signage

#vignelli #design #design archives #archives #graphic design #1970s #subway map #nyc subway

[so-much-for-subtlety]

I made this one handed while walking down 57th st and sent it to a cute guy on scruff with profile mentioning orthography

#me #attempts to flirt

[blackberryvision]

57th St/Columbus Circle

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Police Commissioner Grover Whalen, along with a crowd of others, examining the new signal posts at 57th Street and 5th Avenue, July 22, 1929.

Photo: Getty Images via Artsy

#New York #NYC #vintage New York #1920s #traffic lights #Grover Whalen #July 22 #57th St. #Fifth Ave. #5th Ave. #traffic signals #traffic

[eucanthos]

Deborah Roberts (US, 1962)

The Breakthrough Women of Artist Deborah Roberts, 2018 - the Cut Bodysuit, skirt, and necklace by Dior at 21 E. 57th St. Shoes and socks by Fendi at fendi.com. Photo: Deborah Roberts

https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/fashion-portfolio-deborah-roberts.html

#Deborah Roberts #collage #articles #fashion #fight #fragments #cut #magazine #Dior #Fendi

[rrfmkc]

Big News for RRFMKC is 2024!

3 markets each month, moving around the city!

I can finally announce some initial details of our 2024 plan. The goal for 2024 is to have three markets each month at a variety of times and locations in order to be more available to more people. Each month this will include one event at our regular time and location, one event on a Saturday afternoon in a different park each month, and one event during a weekday at an indoor location. We have finalized this schedule for January

1/7 Main Event: 9AM - Noon in Brookside Park at the intersection of 57th and Brookside Blvd.

1/13 Ivanhoe Park: 1PM - 4PM Ivanhoe Park 4308 Park Ave. Kansas City Missouri. We'll be set up in the park shelter

1/25 816 Bike Collective: 3PM - 6PM on the second floor of the 816 Bike Collective 518 E 31st St, Kansas City, MO

The indoor events are the most difficult to plan. So if you know any venues, churches, libraries, etc. that would be willing to host a 3 hour event please reach out to the blog or the Facebook page and let us know. We'll continue posting monthly updates as we get the schedule established.

Lastly!

Since we are ramping up our goals this year, we could use more help. we have a digital volunteer form, if you'd like to help with cleaning, sorting, transport, or set up.

#kansas city #really really free market #kc #freegan #grand tour

[detroitlib]

Portrait of soprano Carlotta Franzell. Printed on front: "J. Abresch, N.Y." Stamped on back: "Kindly give credit to James Abresch, 200 West 57th St., N.Y.C." Label on back: "Carlotta Franzell, who originated the demure little Cindy Lou in the Broadway production of Carmen Jones returns in the role when Civic's final offering opens at Masonic, Monday, February 28." 1949

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

#carlotta franzell #james abresch #1949 #carmen jones #music #detroit public library

[goldentrunks]

hii 10 and 21 for the music asks? :-)

hi!!! 🧡🧡

10. you have to get a lyric tattoo - which lyric is it?

ooooh. it’d be a boss tattoo I think. “hey little heroes” from incident on 57th st or “pulling out of here to win” from thunder road.

21. which music video have you watched more times then you care to admit?

vance joy’s riptide 🙈 its sooo pretty

send me music asks!

#inbox #ask game

[anastpaul]

Saint of the Day – 20 September – St Pope Agapetus I (c489-536)

Saint of the Day – 20 September – St Pope Agapetus I (c489-536) the 57th Bishop of Rome Papal Reign from 13 May 535 – 22 April 536. Agapetus was born in Rome, although his exact date of birth is unknown. He was the son of Gordianus, a Roman Priest who had been slain during the riots in the days of Pope Symmachus (term 498–514). The name ‘Gprdianus’ might point to a familial relationship with 2…

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#stpopeagapetusI

[empiriical]

little nyc funfacts as they relate to baccano

the flying pussyfoot wouldn't have been able to go into grand central (that's an anime-only thing i think — iirc, it's due to arrive at penn in the light novels). gc only really serves the northeast railway lines operating north of nyc (upstate ny and connecticut). it's a MUCH prettier location than penn though (i hate penn its so ugly and chaotic) so i understand why they changed it.

also, it's grand central terminal, not station. although a lot of people do colloquially refer to gc as such, in railroad terminology, a terminal is the end of a line, which is what gc is. the immediate predecessor to gct was actually called grand central station, but it closed in 1910. so while it's not really a big deal it's not actually correct. the anime does show the name "grand central terminal" on the building.

"millionaires' row" as it's referenced in baccano no longer exists! most of these mansions are now demolished (&& actually were demolished in the late 20s — by 1932, there's not actually a lot of millionaire's row left!) , && what's there instead is billionaires' row. the majority of buildings make up this area are located on 57th st, two blocks south of central park, rather than on 5th ave itself.

in the image below the cut, at the top by central park, is where jacuzzi splot && company are staying. down at the bottom is the martillo family's territory, between little italy && chinatown. so that's how far these guys were traveling. these days, it takes about 25 minutes by subway, half an hour by car. it's over an hour to walk, which is likely what they were doing, with very little money && a not yet expansive subway system.

#this isnt important i just got excited #& PATTERN FINDER. ( OOC ) #large image /