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RIP: Steve Harwell (1967-2023) - Gone way too young.

Summer 1924: “A beggar musician of Tibet passed by the Mount Everest expedition on their route,” a P.C.-challenged caption in The Times explained on page 79 of this issue. The expedition, led by George Leigh Mallory and A.C. Irvine, ended in tragedy as the pair died on their third attempt to summit. Photo: The New York Times

#George Mallory #Mount Everest #Tibet #black and white #nytimes #vintage #photography #The New York Times #1924 #1920s

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July 8, 1929: “The only deviation from the daily routine at Pocantico Hills was the presence on the dinner table tonight of a big birthday cake,” The Boston Globe reported, showing John D. Rockefeller cutting yet another cake on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Otherwise, it was a usual day with some business matters, some holes of golf and a nap. Photo: The New York Times

#John Rockefeller #Boston Globe #Pocantico Hills #black and white #nytimes #vintage #photography #The New York Times #birthdays #cake #naps #golf #1929 #1920s

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Sept. 16, 1966: Mickey Mantle struck out in a Yankee loss to the Minnesota Twins, a game that came toward the end of a dismal season in which the team came in last place in the American League. A few days later, only 413 people were reported to have attended a Yankee game, which they lost, in a stadium that seated 65,000. Photo: Barton Silverman/The New York Times

#Baseball #Mickey Mantle #American League #Minnesota Twins #black and white #nytimes #vintage #photography #The New York Times #1966 #1960s #low attendance

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May 29, 1981: Miraculously, the best hot dogs in Manhattan could be found underneath the West Side Highway, where “tailgate vendors” peddled their wares, profiting from the closing of the elevated highway, which diverted traffic to where sellers of things could flag down motorists. “Entrepreneurs, working from cars along West Street, had varied items for sale, ranging from car booster cables,” The Times reported, “to cowboy hats,” which, presumably, could be enjoyed with a superlative frankfurter. Photo: William E. Sauro/The New York Times

#Roads and Traffic #West Side Highway #Manhattan #black and white #nytimes #vintage #photography #The New York Times #best hot dogs #1981 #1980s #tailgate vendors

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March 24, 1964: A warm day — “temperatures in the low fifties” but with sun — apparently rendered New Yorkers ravenous, for “comment almost everywhere reflected a hunger for ‘open air and spring,’ ” The New York Times reported. “By 3 p.m. 100 pounds of frankfurters, 50 gallons of coffee and 50 pounds of hamburgers had been consumed” at the Central Park Zoo, the story read, citing numbers that sounded more like what an ungulate zoo attraction might consume than its visitors. Photo: Eddie Hausner/The New York Times.

#New York City #Central Park Zoo #black and white #nytimes #vintage #photography #The New York Times #1964 #1960s #hot dogs #ungulates

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March 10, 1928: The Italian sculptor Edgardo Simone, right, posed with one of his creations and its inspiration, the American artist and illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. According to his obituary, Mr. Simone’s other busts included likenesses of other luminaries such as Gen. John J. Pershing, Theodore Dreiser, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Benito Mussolini, while Mr. Christy included among his subjects Amelia Earhart, two presidents — Harding and Coolidge — and Benito Mussolini. Photo: The New York Times

#Nineteen Hundred Twenties #Benito Mussolini #John Pershing #Amelia Earhart #black and white #nytimes #vintage #photography #The New York Times #1920s #Jazz Age #illustration #painting #sculture

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Dec. 30, 1983: A spread of photographs (page 29 of this issue) in The Times remembered 1983, which saw Diana Ross giving a free concert in Central Park despite a downpour; Ron Dixon winning the New York City marathon, and “A Chorus Line” became Broadway’s longest running show. Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

#New York City Marathon #New York City #Central Park #Diana Ross #A Chorus Line #black and white #nytimes #vintage #photography #The New York Times #Ron Dixon #1983 #1980s #Fred R. Conrad

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Dec. 4, 1957: “I saw a lighted cigarette,” reported one witness to The Times. “It was on the street rolling toward the trench. I yelled: ‘Watch it. Get out of there!’ ” A corroded gas main was being repaired when the cigarette ignited and flames shot four stories high in Manhattan for a relatively short while before the the gas was shut off. Only three were injured. Photo: Neal Boenzi/The New York Times

#Manhattan #gas mains #Con Ed #firemen #fires #flames #explosions #lighted cigarettes #black and white #nytimes #vintage #Neal Boenzi #photography #The New York Times #1950s #1957

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Sept. 1, 1915: “Germans lately do not capture a number of Frenchmen but they succeeded to capture five warlike French dogs,” read a curiously light caption accompanying this photo, taken while a world war was raging. “The dogs however, do not feel very cross with their captors.” Photo: The New York Times