Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Going southbound

Looking south on Second Avenue toward Seventh Street... with the Fillmore East in the background. April 1972.


[Sal Traina/Corbis]
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1 comment:

  1. HippieChickFebruary 9, 2011 at 2:48 PM

    Great pic. The Fillmore East was closed for business by April '72, of course (shut down June 27, 1971, with a rather less spectacular than expected final concert, at which I was present). This photo was taken in the temporal limbo before it became a gay disco, when other rock entrepreneurs were considering taking it over. But they didn't. And now it's a bank. And apartments. Sic transit.

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