Form Follows Function

At 94 New Yorker Jack Beers can do what most young men can. His diverse lifetime of achievements would take many 10 lifetimes to accomplish. Jack was raised in poverty in New York,he  was the cities strongest boy, he helped built Radio City Music Hall, at the Manhattan Project he helped to shortened WW2, he erected the Empire State Building spire, was a professional dog trainer, acted in 200+ films, beat terminal illnesses, and rides 5 miles on a stationary bike everyday.

On top of that Jack has some Dapper style to boot!

bygoneamericana:

A large Coca Cola sign and thermometer registers 100 degrees on top of building next to the Mayflower Hotel in Columbus Circle during a heat wave. New York, 1944.

By Marie Hansen

Marilyn Monroe with sailors at the USS Bennington Ship’s Dance at the Astor Hotel Ballroom in New York’s Times Square, March 31, 1955.

bygoneamericana:

Scene along Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx. New York, 1936.

By Arthur Rothstein

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1bohemian:

Bowery restaurant photograph for Changing New York, 1935, by Berenice Abbott

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fuckyeahvintage-retro:

New York City, 1940

abstraire:

Eugene de Salignac - Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge

1. October 7, 1914
2. December 3, 1915

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A Colt Model 1908 cal. .25 ACP Vest Pocket Semi-auto pistol owned by Al Capone.

fuckyeahvintage-retro:

Times Square at Dusk, 1930s

HAPPY NEW YEAR

New Years Eve, Times Square, 1937.