Back of the postcard reads: FUTURE NEW YORK will be pre-eminently the city of skyscrapers. The first steel frame structure that was regarded as a skyscraper was the Tower Building at 50 Broadway, a ten story structure 129 feet high.
There are now over a thousand buildings of that height in Manhattan. The best known skyscrapers are the Singer Building, 612 feet high, the Metropolitan Building, 700 feet high; and the Woolworth Tower which towers above them all and rises to a height of 790 feet.
The proposed Pan American Building is to be 801 feet high. (Postcard Copyright Moses King, New York - circa 1915)
Back of the card reads: 1933 Century of Progress - Chicago World's Fair - AEROPLANE VIEW OF NEAR NORTH SIDE - To the left is seen the famous Merchandise Mart, the largest building of its kind in the world.
Other buildings are the Engineering Building, Trustee System Building, Steuben Club, LaSalle-Wacker Building, with the Wrigley Buildings, Medinah Athletic Club and Tribune Tower grounded in the background. (Postcard by C.T. American Art Colored)
At Christmas - Though distance divides - still Friendship abides. (Postcard circa 1910)
Monday, November 30, 2009
Flying Machines
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These combine two of my favorite themes... vintage New York and flying machines.
Mine too Major. The place is just fascinating. 150 years ago or today, never a dull moment in the NYC.
That top postcard is pretty rad! That flying machine is insane and the city looks like a slightly more Victorian version of Metropolis...
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