
East Village resident Felton Davis just shared this ... a scan from one of several hundred Kodachome slides from the World Trade Center Observation Deck from the 1970s (this particular shot is circa 1978)... showing the neighborhood (and more) from a similar angle...

Also, as a bonus, here's a photo at sunset showing the shadow of the Twin Towers extending all the way across the East River and into Williamsburg...

That shadow photo is pretty cool.
ReplyDeleteagreed, goggla! i have never seen one of those shadow photos for the twin-towered wtc.
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That Time.com Gigapan thing is going to occupy me for the REST OF MY LIFE THANK YOU
ReplyDeleteThat's really cool.
ReplyDeleteGreatest 'Top 'o the World Trade Tower' picture I ever saw, was a postcard I bought when I first moved to NYC. It was titled "Moon Over Manhattan". I've just found a copy of the image on the interwebs.
ReplyDeleteThis is it here:
http://www.annalsofamericus.com/journal/the-death-of-dickie-riley/
> "Moon Over Manhattan"
ReplyDeleteand here i thought you meant this: http://venturegalleries.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Always-Awesome.jpeg
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The thing that amazes me about the Kaplan photo (aside from Riley having the steadiness of nerve to actually stand-up on the edge of the antenna AND pull his pants down) is; where the hell did Kaplan shoot the photograph from?
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