1940s buildings

G E O F F R E Y G O D D A R D P H O T O G R A P H Y on Instagram: "K E S S L E R • Laying unused for 30 years after a fire and tornado hit it, the theatre once owned by Gene Autry now runs, like many old theatres, as a live music venue • architect ? • opened 1942 • Dallas, TX • © Geoffrey Goddard (2022) - #geoffreygoddardphotography - - - - - #artdeco #deco #retro #streamline #dallas #1940s #architecture #archdaily #architecturedetail #architecturelovers #jazzage #modernistbuilding #moderni

1940s NYC | Street photos of every building in New York City in 1939/1940

The cleaning of New York City. 2015. ©malapartecafe // Emanuele Crovetto

This is a great pic The Third ave and Second Ave El's met here That is a Forney steam engine pulling the coaches Third ave El Interior of a Blue Bird Brooklyn El construction Connecting the culver

Checker taxi cabs on 34th Street. I found Dad's diary and he wrote on August 16, 1938: “We swung across town and in a bit were on the Henry Hudson highway leading south. And believe it or not, first thing you know we were once again at the Hotel New Yorker. On the way down, we had a thrill as we passed by a huge ocean liner, all lit up, as it lay at the dock. It was the Normandie.”

New York City, 1944

1940s NYC | Street photos of every building in New York City in 1939/1940

The three-story Federal-style structure was built around 1830

Another special example of the distinctive buildings built so often in the city: 46 W. 56th St., north side, east of Sixth Ave., ca. 1912. The building is still there and retains many of its features, with the added adornment of a Potbelly Sandwich Shop on the ground floor. This was the Goraud Building, named after Jackson Gouraud who bought it around 1908. It was one of several limestone mansions that had replaced the neighborhood's "comfortable rows of identical brownstones," according to…