#swing street

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Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat, with Dizzy Gillespie making like a faun in the background, ca. September 1947.

Photo: William Gottlieb via the LoC

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May 16, 2019

#throwbackthursday

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Outside the Three Deuces, a jazz club on West 52nd St. ("Swing Street"), ca. July 1948. The man in the hat at the right is bassist Al McKibbon.

Photo: William P. Gottlieb via Wikimedia Commons

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Toots Thielemans, Adele Girard, and Joe Marsala outside the Onyx, ca. 1948.

Photo: William Gottlieb via Wikipedia

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Swing Street (West 52nd) in the evening, showing the Club Samoa, Club Downbeat, and 3 Deuces, 1945.

Photo: Andreas Feininger via Design You Trust

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Swing Street amounted to one of the most creative renovations of emptied speakeasy space in Manhattan. … For at least a decade, Swing Street presented a kind of working-class, stylistically unpretentious rebuff to the values and ideology represented by the Rockefeller Center complex abutting it to the south.      —Burton W. Peretti, Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)

Photo: West 52nd St. in the 1950s. Le Figaro

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52nd St. ("Swing Street") ca. 1948.

Photo: William P. Gottlieb via Flashback Shop

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A throng surrounds the speaker’s platform and music stand on Swing Street, 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, July 23, 1942. The street, packed with night clubs, staged a war bond rally and invited everyone who had at least a dime to buy a war stamp. Well-known bands and Army music outfits supplied the background for dancing.

Photo: Kenneth Lucas for the AP