This compelling pic of a 99 Cent Only store at night, with garbage, by Austin Shear, who has an eye for the extraordinarily ordinary.
Check out Austin’s tumblr.
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The majestic Hotel Piccadilly, as it stood in Times Square… and below, as it appears today… the unfortunate Marriott Marquis.
Below is the regal main restaurant of the Piccadilly…
and here’s the lobby of the Marriott…
I’ll be stopping at the Piccadilly.
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Here’s the place where it was all happening… The Hurricane, “New York’s Smart Tropical Restaurant,” on the 2nd floor of the Brill Building at 49th & Broadway in the early 1940s. Would you like a menu?
This is the place where Duke Ellington and his orchestra really turned the town upside down. Duke claimed he never made any money during his record 25-week stint at the club, but the live radio broadcasts raised his national appearance fees so high, that it made up for it. This was also the beginning of the end of segregated club audiences. Here’s a view from the orchestra.
And here’s Duke Ellington, surveying his domain.
The club, owned by theatrical attorney Dave Wolper (his nephew became the later TV producer), closed after a lot of financial disputes. The legendary Brill Building is still there.
Amazingly, here’s a recording of a live radio broadcast with Duke from The Hurricane.
Here’s some film of the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1943.
And here’s where you would have danced…
I’ll see you in my dreams… at the Tahitian Hut Bar.
some pix via Exploring Old New York
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A magnificent US Post Office at the corner of Washington and 13th in Miami, an Art Deco facade with gorgeous murals inside… today it’s…
still there!
It’s not a real gone place at all! Hooray! Some things survive!
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If you’re going to wear a turban, why not throw on a pearl necklace? Why not a dozen?
That’s Rudolph Valentino as he appeared in “The Young Rajah” in 1922. Valentino died August 23, 1926 at age 31, of complications following the removal of his appendix.
One hundred thousand people lined the streets near New York’s Frank Campbell Funeral Home, where 43 years later, 20,000 would line the streets for the funeral of Judy Garland.
Valentino’s Beverly Hills estate, Falcon Lair, was owned by tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who died there.
It was bulldozed in 2005.
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What Snooki has done for Italian-Americans, a new cast in a show called “Shahs of Sunset” or “Persian Version” will do for Iranian-Americans, thanks to the lucid mind of Ryan Seacrest, who will produce the new show. I smell a hit, and I do mean smell.
Focusing on some of the half-million Persians who fled the Iranian Revolution, 6,000 of whom live in the Beverly Hills environs, we’ll get a glimpse into the fast cars, hookah smoking and otherwise delightful lifestyle of their young generation of Persian Palace dwellers.
Houses like that McMansion have sprung up all over Beverly Hills and adjacent neighborhoods. If you’ve always longed to know what goes on inside them, your daily prayers have been answered.
Coming soon to Bravo.
ty Steve D.
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This picture of Princess Diana, dancing with some actor at the White House in 1985, has always been one of my favorites of her.
I can’t imagine why.
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The beautiful Art Deco Woolworth store at 36 E. Washington Street in Phoenix, along with the other retailers of the day, and below, all of them gone.
Don’t worry, you can find what you’re looking for online.
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Robert F. Kennedy on the cover of TIME on May 24, 1968, as painted by Roy Lichtenstein. Kennedy was shot and killed 12 days later at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, now a school named for him.
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”
for Gina
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Sears in Miami, with its octagonal tower built in 1929, and below as it appears today.
It is now part of the Arsht Performing Arts Center, and houses the Bombay Sapphire Lounge.
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