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

[Dan Goncharoff]

I still loved the video, and it set me looking at street lamp fixures in
NYC. (The double tear drop fixtures in the video are long gone.)

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 4:06 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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