Cab Calloway and his orchestra with the Cotton Club Chorus at the Cotton Club, 1936.
Schlagwort: New York
Wesley Morse provided program and promotional illustrations for Owney Madden’s Cotton Club throughout the 1930′s at its 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue location in Harlem. The club closed in 1936 and relocated downtown at Broadway and 48th Street, Morse came along, continuing to illustrate the club’s programs. The Cotton Club closed its doors for good in 1940.
Famed nightclub impresario Lou Walters opened The Latin Quarter in 1942 in its place, and Morse become that club’s premier image maker throughout the 40′s and 50′s.
Luxury Liner Row, New York, October 1939.
Seen here (L-R) are the SS Normandie, now a war refugee, the RMS Queen Mary, in troopship colors, and WWI veteran RMS Aquitania, also ready for action. The following Spring, QM’s sister ship Queen Elizabeth joined in, and for two weeks, the three largest liners in the world were moored side by side.
(Life Magazine Archive)
Casually bringing back an old favorite.
Here’s 2 other views(the other French line ship is the Ile De France)
What I always liked about these pictures is the Aquitania was only marginally larger than the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic in length and beam(although the Titanic, Britannic and the Olympic post 1913, were both larger in gross tonnage), so it gives a good impression on what either 3 of them would look like next to the Queen or Normandie.
Reblogging for the extra pics.
Now with closing 2014 business coming near it is time to look back. And the best thing I did was to sail from Hamburg to New York with Queen Mary 2. Travelling like in interbellum times. Formal dinners and Gin Tonic. I now take the opportunity to post my sea and cruising favorites.
The Waldorf-Astoria.
Huhuuu, one week ago I was booked in there with my wife. Suite on level nine (count nine up from the right wing corner of the church), we had so much fun with old fashioned cocktail parties…
The Great Bambino: In this September 30, 1936, Works Progress Administration, Federal Writerís Project, photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, a man hands a program to baseball legend Babe Ruth, center, as he is joined by his second wife Clare, center left, and singer Kate Smith, front left, in the grandstand during Game One of the 1936 World Series at the Polo Grounds in New York
(via Mail Online)
