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Bugs Bunny debuts in the cartoon "A Wild Hare," today in 1940. In 1945 The Times wrote about the character's origin. https://t.co/O46Z9Wdyta pic.twitter.com/n1vGEb0edb

— NYT Archives (@NYTArchives) July 27, 2019

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Reposted from @nytarchives These boogiers caught a little Saturday night fever on January 27, 1979, showing off the latest moves — and on wheels, no less! — for our photographer Marilynn K. Yee at Empire Rollerdrome in Brooklyn, which #nytimes called “truly the Radio City Music Hall of discos.” Among the city’s professional dancers, The Times reported, there was some debate that season over the merits of the discothèque. The ballet dancers mostly shunned it. The Broadway crowd went nuts for it. And Tim Wengerd, then the leading dancer for the Martha Graham Dance Company, told the paper that, while it should be indulged sparingly, “letting go at a disco kind of gets all the kinks out.” As for the civilian crowd, rising enthusiasm lifted all levels of talent. Skaters at the Empire “shift in and out of whizzing conga lines, listing as precisely as Rockettes,” the paper reported, their swift strokes interrupted only momentarily by “spectacular falls from which the dancers rise without a missed beat.” The skaters shimmied and arabesqued their way into the wee hours of the morning. “I’ve got to take this thing to the far reaches of the weekend!” the “cheerfully raucous” DJ told The Times. “Weekend freaks, let’s go!” #nytarchives #MarilynnKYee - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B70zm5jgOUt/?igshid=11v36pnnsrsxx

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Reposted from @nytarchives In December 1972, #nytimes spent a week following “a ‘normal’ teenager of the nineteen-seventies” as she went about her everyday life in New York City. Natalie Wright (left) was a 10th grader at John F. Kennedy High School who loved singing in her school chorus, skating at the Riverdale ice rink and studying algebra (although, on the whole, she viewed school as “at best, an obligation to be fulfilled rather than an intellectual adventure,” The Times reported). But “first on her list of life priorities comes the tight, select circle of girl friends that are at the center of her everyday existence,” our reporter William K. Stevens observed. “When she is with them she displays a smiling, happy personality that seldom breaks through the mask of shy reserve and self-possession that she usually wears in class.” Our photographer Don Hogan Charles captured Natalie and her best friend, Naomi, as they left school at the end of the day. After taking the subway 90 blocks south to her home on 135th Street, Natalie stopped at the grocery store for a snack of 3 chocolate cupcakes. She spent the evening doing her homework, eating dinner with her parents and little sister and watching “The Rookies” and “Lucy.” “I don’t pay any attention to moon landings,” Natalie told The Times. “But I did watch the first landing because there wasn’t anything else on TV.” #nytarchives #DonHoganCharles - #regrann (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7YQDXyghbD/?igshid=1gufyn98u056g

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💫 #SACREDSELFCARESUNDAY 💫 mamas need and deserve to have fun too. We love this from @nytarchives: ・・・ From people moshing in the basement of a club to ballerinas leaping on stage, our photo editor @jmwender looked at thousands of pictures for the special section on #nytimes dance photography we produced in April. “All the images were my favorites,” Jessie said, “but especially this photograph of a woman dancing at a disco for single parents. I love how people find community in a myriad of ways and that dancing is a way to do this too. I love the energy of the photograph. How into it the woman is. How happy the kid. The style. Looking at this photo I can almost hear ‘Saturday Night Fever.’” Our photographer Tyrone Dukes captured the parents and their kids as they boogied down at a TriBeCa disco on March 4, 1978. You can see more images from more than 6 decades of dance in The Times at the link in our bio, and check back this week for more of our favorite images of 2019. #nytarchives #TyroneDukes (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7O1saxnhWN/?igshid=5jgakgfqu50c

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#Repost @nytarchives with @get_repost ・・・ At the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, a group of rising tennis stars step into the sunlight. The youngsters, captured by our photographer William E. Sauro, were working on their backhand at a free clinic in June 1967. The tennis club, founded in 1892, moved from Manhattan to the outer borough in 1913 and built a tennis stadium, the first in the U.S., there in 1923. The year after this photo was taken, 97,000 people flocked to the Forest Hills venue to watch the U.S. Open. The men’s singles title that summer was clinched by a 25-year-old computer-programming instructor at West Point, an amateur player who was “the only tennis player to have won an open at $20 per diem and with a free hotel room,” #nytimes reported. His name was Arthur Ashe — the first African-American man to ever win a major. #nytarchives #WilliamESauro https://www.instagram.com/p/B3kmDVAA2zA/?igshid=7109canvokd0

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#Repost @nytarchives with @get_repost ・・・ Ready, aim, splash! A group of archers take to the surf in Long Beach, New York, circa 1931. They may be dressed for a summer day, but, according to the photographer’s notes, it was a midwinter shoot that sent the “young Dianas” into the frigid waves. “Their eyes intent on the target, the feminine archers didn’t see the wave coming until it was too late.” Archery is one of the oldest Olympic sports: It debuted at the second modern Games, in Paris in 1900, and women joined the competition at the 1904 Games in St. Louis. South Korea holds the record for the most medals in the sport with 39, 23 of them gold. #nytimes #nytarchives https://www.instagram.com/p/B2eLz_VAjwX/?igshid=s70kj6olxpa7

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#Repost @nytarchives • • • • • • Some people can play the saxophone. Some people can breakdance. How many can do both — at the same time? This photograph from the spring of 1984 finds a musician putting his back into a solo while entertaining lunchtime crowds on Broadway in Lower Manhattan. Interesting footnote for historians of footwear: The checkerboard slip-on became a big hit for Vans in 1982 after Sean Penn wore them as Jeff Spiccoli in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” In the trailer for the movie, the actor is on the phone talking to a bud (see what we did there?) when he whacks his forehead with one of the sneakers and exclaims memorably, “That was my skull! I’m so wasted!” Photo credit: Jack Manning/New York Times. #nytimes #nytarchives https://www.instagram.com/p/BzOAWILhmcy/?igshid=kz7oh6kf21nl

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#Repost @nytarchives • • • • • • Let there be light! Blackout regulations were imposed across Britain on September 1, 1939, just 2 days before the country entered the fray of World War II. They remained in place throughout much of the war, and some “dim-out” restrictions persisted afterward, as electricity and fuel continued to be rationed. But on April 2, 1949, the lights finally came back on in full force. A photographer captured the crowds packed into Piccadilly Circus to see the country return to technicolor. “In London’s West End and in most of the great cities of the kingdom outdoor signs and advertisements began blinking and blazing with a near forgotten splendor,” #nytimes reported, “and for the children, reared on gloom and blackout, it was a thrilling sight.” Photo credit: The New York Times #nytarchives https://www.instagram.com/p/By_MQJ2hktr/?igshid=jernndt992rr