New york 1920 aesthetic

𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟎, 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥: Sunlight streams through the windows into the concourse. A sight that today is rarer due to the ban on…

Cotton Club November 4, 1927 Duke Ellington’s big band opened at the famed Cotton Club in Harlem. It was the first appearance of the Duke’s new and larger group.

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.”

Wanamaker's Department Store in NYC at Christmas time, 1930’s.

The premiere of The Jazz Singer at the Warners' Theatre, Broadway, New York City. October 6, 1927.

Ahead, see what New York was like during the Jazz Age, from old Ebbets Field to the height of Prohibition.

1938 - New York City