Can we get that overhead seesaw thing back?
And head on over to the Museum's website for more photos... they are available for purchase as well as gawking...
Thursday, September 12, 2013
5 pretty amazing photos of Tompkins Square Park in 1904
Thank you to esquared™ for pointing out these photos of Tompkins Square Park from the Museum of the City of New York... these photos date to 1904, and are from an "Arbor Day" celebration in the Park ...
Can we get that overhead seesaw thing back?
And head on over to the Museum's website for more photos... they are available for purchase as well as gawking...
Can we get that overhead seesaw thing back?
And head on over to the Museum's website for more photos... they are available for purchase as well as gawking...
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Grieve,
These are great. They go a long way in dispelling the false notion that this area was always a haven for fringe elements.
Not one rat or heroin needle in the picture....
Wow. These are really incredible images when you consider that they were taken in April 1904 and just a few months later in June 1904 the General Slocum disaster killed a thousand children and women -- most of whom lived near Tompkins Square Park and very likely appear in these photographs.
Great photos. I love that the baby is left to play in the dirt. Ahh, the good old days before the Purell mentality.
When I was a kid in the 1950s St George School would drag us our for a stupid procession in Tompkins Square Park, I never understood why we were marching. Looks like those girls in another era and decade are as befuddled as I was, too! Same dumb education practices, it never ends.
Very cool! Thanks for posting.
Having just returned from an early morning walk through TSP, can appreciate these even more!
Doesn't Anonymous 8:40's comment violate the Comments Policy? "...commentary that is intended to "flame" or attack..."
@ anon 10:03
Yes. I missed the last line. Here's the comment without it.
Anonymous said...
SMDH nobody has claimed the park "area was always a haven for fringe elements."
Once again... you take the sentiments of what's written in comments, hear what you want, interpret as you choose, and regurgitate words that you put in the mouths of others for no other reason to instigate.
almost hate to say it, but the park looks kinda cool without all the trees.
and shawn's comment is probably most important - many of these kids pictured probably never reached their teens.
Wow, look how much more open and parky it looked without those heavy steel fences. Does anybody know when those went up?
baby trees!
I would hazard a guess all these children died a few months later. 1,400 people mostly women and children. Most of them were slotted to attend the newly built PS 64 (9th and B)the next fall. Twas the end of Kleindeutschland and the beginning of a new neighborhood. .
The denizens of the park certainly look more dignified and appealing in these old photos than in the present-day park.
- East Villager
You got that right, East Villager, Americans nowadays are slobs. Its interesting to me to see pictures of contemporary alleged poverty stricken collapsing North Koreans running around in flip flops and then I see all the USians wearing the same things, except of course the USians have to put glitter and sequins on theirs to doll them up and show off their fucking individuality.
Hey.....that fella in the last pic wears his hat the same way you do EVG.....rakish tilt'n'all.
Where are all the crusties?
...this morning all I could think was... wish there were a way to get the seemingly dozens of people who looked down, homeless, hungry some sustained help! At no point did I wonder why they weren't rocking Varvatos.
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