Empire State Building

 

Empire State building in 1930;  John Gaglione Sr. wrote at FB on 9 December 2022: Most of those steelworkers were from Iroquois, NY native Americans. They were fearless;  that’s what I was told; Mohawks maybe too.; Jack Barrett wrote: Built in 409 days, way ahead of schedule, over 90 years ago, with far less technology than we have today, and, during a Depression!

1970. 

January 1970. 

5th Avenue seen from the air in the Autumn of 1967.  

Chrysler Building in 1978, with the Queensborough Bridge aka 59th Street Bridge in the back...

World Trade Center

 

23rd October 1970. 

Photo taken from the Staten Island ferry in November 1970. 

World Trade Center on 23rd December 1970. The American flag, attached to a 36-foot-long, four-ton steel column, is hoisted to the top of the north tower building of the World Trade Center in New York City, on 23rd December 1970. The traditional ceremony, know as topping out, marks the completion of the 1,350-foot structure which was the world's tallest building.

Angle from West Street in July 1971. 

5th Avenue near Washington Square in March 1971.

from Delancey Street in March 1971. 

1971.

20 June 1976. 

1976. 

Twin Towers in 1979.

1979.

Exchange Place, N.J. on 4th July 1976. 

PAN-AM Building

 

Pam Am building still under construction with 60 stories. It was opened on 7 March 1963.

The Pan-Am Building standing tall next to the Gothic Chrysler on the right, Central Park and New Jersey across the Hudson River on the left.

Chrysler building seen from the top of the Pan Am bldg. in 1963.

General Electric tower, the Chrysler Bldg. in 1966.

GE Building tower once owned by RCA Victor, on 570 Lexington Ave, in 1979, with Queens in the background. 

Olden Times Square

 

One Times Square in 1904.

New York Times with the Astoria on the right in 1906... 

1917.

Fuller Building in 1919. 

Walt Disney's 'Saludos amigos' opened at the Globe on 19 February 1943.  Clarence Brown's 'Human comedy' opened at the Astor on 2nd March 1943. 

1959.

Fuller Bldg, Paramount Theatre, Astor Hotel in the 1930s. 

Astor Hotel in 1909. 

Dr. Martin Luther King in Newark in 1968

 

Dr. Martin Luther King at South Side Hight School on 27 March 1968, only 8 days before being shot and murdered in Memphis, Tennessee on 4 April 1968. 

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walks through South Ward on 27 March 1968.

Sacred Heart Cathedral

 

Sacred Heart Cathedral in 1941. 

Clifton Avenue pool in 1941. 

Sacred Heart in 1920.

1915.

Broad Street train station

 

Broad Street train station in 1970.

Lackawanna Place on Broad Street in 1959. 

City Hall on Broad Street

 

City Hall on Broad Street in 1959.

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy speaks in front of Newark City Hall on 12 October 1962.

JFK rides in a motorcade at Broad St. and William St. on 12 October 1962.

same picture with a better resolution.

McCarter Highway through the years...

 

Route 21 aka McCarter Highway looking east - 1957.

1950.

McCarter Highway & Cherry Street in 1959.

McCarter Hwy in 1961. 

McCarter Highway dedication in 1943. 

Hayes Park East Pool on Waydell Street, Ironbound

 

Hayes Park East Pool 

- Persons dressed only in bathingsuits permitted in pool area

- Do not dress or undress on pool deck 

- No running, diving, pushing, ball playing, dunking, eating or drinking in pool area

- No food, drinks, face masks, baby carriages, floats. 

Hayes Park East Pool in 1983. 

Carlos Hugo enjoys a dip at Hayes Park East pool in 1977.

1947.

Clifton Ave Pool (here in the early 1960s) changed its name to Rotunda Pool in the 1940s. Joseph Ralph Rotunda was the first soldier from Newark’s Italian-American community to die in World War II. He had a city pool named after him.

Clifton Avenue Pool in 1941.

Angela DeGennaro Lucas wrote: Originally called Clifton Pool when it opened. Later it became Rotunda pool named for, I believe, the first serviceman from the neighborhood to lose his life in WWII.

Boylan Street Pool in 1951.

Boylan Street pool in 1960. 

Karen Pellow wrote: Wasn't this at one time called the 'Polio Pool' and shut down?

Jacqueline Janson Burge answered: Actually, some called it "The Polio Pit".

Gene O'Mullan added: In the early 1950s every place children frequented was considered a 'polio pit'.

Debra Evans said: My mom wouldn’t let my older siblings go there because of the polio scare.

Rosemarie Michele:  I went there almost every day;  free to get in the morning, ten cents in the afternoon! Loved it.

Hayes Park East Pool was situated on Waydell Street between Ferry St. & Raymond Boulevard.

The green lot seen from the satellite - between Ferry Street & Raymond Boulevard - is where the Hayes Park East Pool was located with a public entrance from Waydell Street.