5th Avenue & 42nd Street in the 1950s.
6th Avenue & 41st Street in the 1950s.
5ths Avenue towards 42nd Street; view from the steps of the NY Public Library in 1955.
Broadway & 44th Street in 1954; both 7th Ave. & Broadway had 2-way traffic; BONDS was a clothing store.
42nd Street off 7th Avenue in 1955.
7th Avenue towards 47th Street in 1955.
42nd Street & 7th Avenue in 1951.
5th Ave. towards 42nd St. in the 1950s. Judging by the shadows and the low foot and vehicle traffic it must have been taken on a Sunday morning.
42nd St. toward 11th Ave. in 1969; the large building down the block was actually torquoise and housed the McGraw Hill Company.
Broadway & 42nd Street circa 1963.
42nd Street & 7th Avenue in 1960.
42nd Street looking West from Broadway on 9 July 1960.
42nd Street in 1972.
This is how I remember 42nd Street in the summer of 1972.
Remember when guys went out on the streets like that? Scary?
42nd St. at night in 1966 - 'Incident at at Phanthom Hill' .
a famous person waiting for a train at Grand Central Station on 42nd Street in the 1950s.
Summer 1973.
1968 - 'Hammerhead' with Vince Edwards.
Anne Baxter reigns supreme at Broadway in 1971 with 'Applause' which had brought Lauren Bacall back a year earlier. Wienerwald restaurant-bar...
John Shaft, private detective - 1971.
'The Horsemen' with Omar Sharif & Jack Palance in 1970.
Richard Roundtree as John Shaft crosses Times Square in the Fall of 1970.
Who's the man who ... John Shaft.
SHAFT !
Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?
Shaft! You're damn right!
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?
Shaft! Can ya dig it?
Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about!
Shaft! Right on!
You see this cat Shaft is a bad motherfucker! Shut your mouth!
But I'm talkin' about Shaft! Then we can dig it!
He's a complicated man but no one understands him but his woman!
John Shaft!
words & music: Isaac Hayes
Blackula showing he means business...
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