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They are lined up outside the Hippodrome in New York, where the production is "Happy Days", an extravaganza with swimmers and elephants. Alexander Woolcott' review: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D01E4D6133DE5... It opened on August 23, 1919, was interrupted by the actors' strike until September 1, and continued until May 15, 1920. www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/happy-days-6673 The care has a 1919 license plate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_New_... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Hippodrome Location in Nov. 2016 Google Street View, Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave, btwn 43rd and 44th Sts. www.google.com/maps/place/1120+6th+Ave,+New+York,+NY+1003...

Based on the caption of this other Bain photo, it looks like these are ticket buyers lined up for one of Luisa Tetrazzini's shows:

quite a theme in this upload. this is fantastic!!!! from our perspective as well as from its power of expression( not merely a blogg or headline scrawled across a tv screen.

George H. Kendall was the president of the New York Bank Note Company, which amongst other things, printed stock certificates. That matter was the root of a long running dispute with the NYSE. From the New York Times of March 10, 1913 : "The fight between the exchange and Mr. Kendall is an old one. He said at the hearing it had been going on for thirty-four years. He has sued the exchange and its members and the case is pending in the United States District Court. From time to time he has exhibited on his building inlower sixth avenue enormous painted signs denouncing the "thieves of the New York Stock Exchange." Some of the signs are in place at the present time. " (ref. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9903E2D9103CE633A... ) See a raft of New York Times stories on the dispute here: query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?query=George+H.+endal...

I started a Wikipedia entry for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Kendall

I don't know what this picture means but I'm favoriting it anyway!

what an incredible missive! you don't see many businesses wear the heart on the sleeve this, let alone wrap their heart as a banner around their place of business.

Line outside Hippodrome Theater in New York to buy tickets to one of what turned out to be Luisa Tetrazzini's many farewell tours. She sang there on November 30, 1919 and again on May 14, 1920.
query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03E7D7153BEE32A...

The regular show at the Hippodrome at the time (8/23/1919 - 5/15/1920) was Happy Days -- www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/happy-days-6673

Check out Alexander Woolcott's review: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D01E4D6133DE5...