42ndstreet

This images is looking east from 42nd Street and 7th Avenue. The building shown on teh left in teh center is the Times Building. In the distance you see the platform for the Elevated on Sixth Avenue.

great catch.. Now can you get the name of the theater? Hammerstein's something or another.

Hammerstein's Roof Garden, operated by Oscar Hammerstein I. He opened it in 1904, above two theaters that he owned: the Victoria and the Republic. Jack Johnson, the African-American world champion prizefighter, appeared at the Victoria Theater in July of 1910, for an engagement of several days.

Thanks! Johnson was a key figure, maybe even a tragic figure, in the history of rase relations in America.

The New York Times, on July 12, 1910, ran a story about Johnson's tumultuous welcome in New York City. (This was right after his victory in Reno over former heavyweight champion James Jeffries, "The Great White Hope," cemented Johnson's claim to the title): [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E07E6D9173AE733A25751C1A9619C946196D6CF

I like how the photographer had included the street signs in the frame. Those signs must have looked very exotic...

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called VINTAGE COMMERCIAL AND MUNICIPAL VEHICLES, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

If I remember correctly, the message on the top of the bus was, "Ride the Surface Way".

Videoal, you are correct!

That's a pretty cool picture of the bus to New York.

Photo of James M. Cox, Democratic Party nominee for President in 1920, leading a parade on 42nd Street (Manhattan) from west to east, as he approaches the intersection of Madison Avenue and 42nd. The photographer's perspective is from the north side of the intersection on Madison Avenue, looking toward 42nd St. to the southwest and Cox as he approaches the intersection. The Union Carbon and Carbide Building Union Carbide and Carbon Building (built in 1913, demolished in 2001) serves as the backdrop for the scene. Here's a rough approximation of the view today, via Google Street View: www.google.com/maps/@40.7528447,-73.9792767,3a,75y,270h,9... Art Siegel

TVL1970 "Carbide and Carbon", not "Carbon and Carbide" Building. A photo: collections.mcny.org/Collection/[Union-Carbide-and-Carbon-Building,-30-East-42nd-St.]-2F3XC58SNO8G.html

Art Siegel Thanks, Art. Correction made.

Thank you Art Siegel and TVL1970 for identifying the building!

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