Thursday, October 8, 2009

Something strange about this ConEd Building photo...

Right. No dorms or other high rises around it... Anyway, I always appreciate the archival items that EV Grieve reader Mykola (Mick) Dementiuk finds and sends along...such as this shot of the ConEd building via 1957 (from Life magazine).



And this rooftop shot in the EV of Steve McQueen and Natalie Wood from 1963's "Love With The Proper Stranger."

6 comments:

pinhead said...

Great photo. Christoper Gray wrote about the building in the lower right, The German Savings Bank, in this past Sunday's Streetscapes. There's a pre-Con Ed photo (1872) here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/realestate/04scapesready.html

EV Grieve said...

Dang. I missed that, Pinhead. Thanks for the link!

Mykola Dementiuk said...

You can also get the film 'Love With A Proper Stranger, in 11 parts from YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTf3tx2ixn8

EV Grieve said...

I actually started watching it last night Mick!

Had never seen it before, for whatever reasons. Nice shot of the St. Mark's Church in the Bowery too in part five — around the 8-minute mark.

Ken Mac said...

Natalie Wood!! Ahhh true grace and beauty.

EV Grieve said...

Indeed, Ken. She works at a Macy's counter here....