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[newyorkthegoldenage]

This young man is raising pigeons on the rooftops of the Lower East Side, ca. 1940.

Photo: Roy Perry via MCNY

[guy60660]

Roy Perry | Museum of the City of New York | The New York Times

[steve-rogers-new-york]

Street Games

I’m working on a post on a street game right now and came across these great images from The Museum of the City of New York on write-up post on their Wordpress.

Do you doubt our boys would have been little terrors playing in the streets, even if maybe Steve shouldn't have been. I don’t know about you guys, but as a pre-teen without any sort of gaming console, prohibitively limited dial-up Internet, and no cable TV, I spent a great deal of my school holidays just roaming and exploring abandoned locations around my home, so street play isn’t a huge stretch for me. You would just be...outside and make games out of whatever was on hand. Was climbing a small hill made from old trash inadvisable? Yes. Was being a small female child biking around alone with no means of contacting anyone if I got into trouble or telling anyone where I was going also inadvisable? Yes. Did I do these things without a second thought? Also yes.

That was a tangent. Anyway, street play was a thing in the 20th century and here are some cool photos of kids playing from the early-20th century.

Image Sources

Children Playing in a Vacant Lot, 1935, Arnold Eagle | Source See-Saw, Third Avenue near 44th Street, c.1940, Roy Perry | Source Harlem, Playing Improvised Dart Game, c.1940, Roy Perry | Source Street Scene, Lower East Side, c.1940, Roy Perry | Source Climbing Boys in a Gun Shoot-Out, c.1940, Roy Perry | Source Cops and Robbers, c.1940, Roy Perry | Source Boys Climbing Fire Escape of a Deserted Building, 1935, Arnold Eagle | Source W.P.A. Street Blockade Turned into a Playground, c.1940, Roy Perry | Source Neighborhood Boys Watching a Game, c.1940, Roy Perry | Source Children Constructing See-Saw from W.P.A. Detour Sections, c.1940, Roy Perry | Source

[oldnewyorklandia]

Roy Perry, Man on Roof Tending Pigeon Brood, Third Avenue, ca 1940. 

[newyorkthegoldenage]

How much are those chickies in the window? A boy admires a cluster of newly-hatched chicks in a pet shop window, ca. 1940.

Photo: Roy Perry via MCNY

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Admiring the cluster of newly hatched chicks in a pet shop window, ca. 1940.

Roy Perry/Museum of the City of NY

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A transit themed throwback on this rainy Thursday. The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx. Originally operated by an independent railway company, it eventually became part of the New York subway system. The first segments of the line opened in Manhattan in 1878. Service in Manhattan was phased out through the 1950s and closed completely in 1955, ending in the Bronx in 1973. The Third Avenue El was a frequent backdrop for movies filmed in the city including “ The Naked City” (1948), “On the Town”(1949), and“12 Angry Men” (1957). 

Photograph Information: Roy Perry 72nd Street Express Stop, Third Avenue "El". DATE: ca. 1940

[tytusjaneta]

Roy Perry Raising Pigeons on Rooftops, Lower East Side, Madison Street Between Jefferson and Rutgers Streets, ca. 1940