chrisjohndewitt in America

Photographs taken on several trips in the 1970s and 1980s.For my Berlin Photos go to https://chrisjohndewitt.tumblr.com/

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Midian Golden Cycles Garden City Kansas. This parade passed by when I was there.

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Garden City Kansas.

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Deerfield, Kearny County, Kansas USA. The home town of an American friend I knew from Berlin. Also a cousin of mine married a guy from Garden City, not far away, who I visited at the same time. A reason for this area being famous, or notorious, was that an horrendous multiple murder occurred at Holcombe, which is in between Deerfield and Garden City. This was the basis of a book and two films made about the crime.

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Bleecker Street Manhattan at the junction with Grove Street, 1987.

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Venice Beach L.A. 1980s. Westminster Avenue, as it runs onto the Beachfront.

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The bridge over the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso 1980s

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San Francisco Polk Street 1988. The Royal Theater, built in 1916. This Art Deco frontage is now all that remains, the cinema itself was demolished for a housing project in 2003. The film showing on the marquee gives the date of the picture.

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Waiting for the light, Hollywood 1980s.

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Hollywood: bag stall next to the Capitol Tower on Vine Street Los Angeles in 1989. 

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New York 1988: Pearl Street near Coenties Alley at lunchtime.

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The Alameda building, Broadway and 84th Street in 1987. - OPTIMO Cigars Cigarettes Candy Head Shop -

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NYC 6th Avenue W37th Street in 1987. Eagle Custom Furniture Inc. - Two Guys Coffee Shop & Donut. 

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New York 1987. Looking up Whitehall Street from State Street. The Twin Towers can just be seen behind the nearer buildings.

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New York Penta Hotel 7th Avenue in 1989. Accidental photograph. 

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The Nelson Tower on 7th Avenue. Named after Julius Nelson the property developer, the architect was H. Craig Severance, and is from 1931. This tower was built right up against smaller 4 and 5 storey buildings, most noticeably a branch of Citibank, and an Irish pub called John Sullivan's Bar & Grill. They sit uncomfortably dwarfed by their gigantic neighbor. Picture taken c1989.

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34 St - Penn Station subway entrance, New York. This is on W33rd Street, corner of 7th Avenue.

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New York IRT Subway stop ‘34 Penn Station’, which is at Madison Square Garden.