#29 sept.

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What the well-dressed man has worn on 42nd St. for the last hundred years, September 29, 1925. The fashions were demonstrated during the 42nd St. Centenary Celebration.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

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A view west over the Hudson docks and Jersey taken from 1250 feet on the Empire State building, around September 29, 1938. In the center are the docks of the lower Hudson River, flowing leftward to the Atlantic, and across the river are the fast-growing towns of Hoboken and Jersey City.

Photo: Associated Press

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42nd Steet celebrated its centennial in 1925. These men are displaying what the well-dressed man would be wearing throughout those hundred years, September 29, 1925.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

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The New York Giants leave the field after their final game at the Polo Grounds, September 29, 1957, while fans beg them, "Stay Team Stay." The players, from left, are, Bobby Thomson (21), Daryl Spencer (20), Whitey Lockman, Gail Harris (14) and Dusty Rhodes (26). The San Francisco-bound Giants lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-1, in the finale, which drew 11,606 people.

Photo: Associated Press

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Leslie Howard, Gertrude Lawrence, and Reginald Owen in Candle Light. The play, from a book by Siegfried Geyer adapted by P.G. Wodehouse, opened at the Empire Theater on September 30, 1929, and ran for 128 performances.

Photo: NYPL

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The Kate Smith Hour was a popular radio program that, like many in the 1930s, broadcast live, with a live audience. These people are waiting on line outside the CBS Theater, hoping to get in, September 29, 1938.

Photo: CBS via Getty Images

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Fans at the Polo Grounds at the Giants' final game before they moved to San Francisco, September 29, 1957.

Photo: Unknown photographer via MoMA