[Ads-l] 5th Ave. in the '30s

[Jonathan Lighter]

As you may have guessed, that wasn't for the list.

Ignore.

JL



On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 12:18 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Ah, very nostalgic—would be even more so for my parents, if they were
> still around (of course they'd be well into their second century by now).
> I do remember when you (well not me, but the car and bus drivers) could
> drive north as well as south on Fifth Avenue.  Are those double-decker
> buses you see in the video regular NYC Transit buses (i.e. the 1,2,3,4)?
> If so, when were they phased out?  If they were still around when I started
> to commute to elementary school on the 4 (now M4) from Washington Heights
> to the 70th St. stop near the Frick in 1952, I don’t recall them.
>
> LH
>
> > On Mar 21, 2021, at 10:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > Keith,
> >
> > 59th St. to 79th St. (first east side of street, then west).
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Deh9u2pLw
> >
> > My old stomping grounds.
> >
> > 860 not built yet!  Spot looks like the big courtyard of the gray mansion
> > just north of the site (demolished 1949).
> >
> > Jon
> >
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