Posted on 03/25/2009 7:04:08 PM PDT by neverdem
Yeah, that sounds about right.
People who enjoy these kinds of old images should really like this movie of daily life in London in 1904:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3248605/Lost-film-footage-of-Edwardian-London-discovered.html
I’m actually surprised it is so cheap. That is A LOT of square footage in prime real estate.
“All those folks with townhouses on the west side, east side, downtown and uptown are going to be surprised to hear that...”
Okay, okay, maybe I pharsed that incorrectily - actually I’m not sure how to phrase it.
But what I meant was a single building occupied by a single family, and that family only - kind of like that house in the picture they were auctioning?
Yeah, I know a bunch of people live in condominiums and townhouses and stuff, but they typically own a *piece* of a bullding.
Think Staten Island.
I collect historical photo postcards of my adopted Humboldt County Ca. I quit counting at 2000. Most of them came from eBay
That’s pretty amazing. I wanted to collect old photos from LA on eBay but they were very expensive and in demand.
I do collect old dags, Cartes de Visite and Cabinet Cards from eBay of nuns from the mid-1800’s. I have around 200. I’ll be putting up a website soon.
“Are you sure about Inwood, the northern end?”
No, I’m not completly sure about that “fact” / “factoid”, hence the way it was phrased.
I lived in Manhatten for a year in mid-80’s (just off 1st Ave, between the southern end of Yorkville and the UN building neighborhood (Turtle Bay?),
and I distinctly remember reading that point - somewhere.
Never made it to Inwood, but as I recall Riverdale looked much like the rest of Manhatten - solid apartment blocks, street after street.
Thanks for the link. I posted it because it is an old daguerreotype from NY.
No, townhouses are actually counted as individual buildings. They aren’t even connected by a single wall.
Still, pity those poor bastards in those $30,000,000 dumps.
It's too bad you missed Inwood. I'm in Riverdale now. It depends where you are. There are plenty of single family houses.
It may be morbid, but whenever I watch an old film like that one of London from 1904 I can’t help but ponder that every single human being in the film, including every child, is long dead. Most of the adults have probably all been dead for over 60 years.
Great! I need to get a scanner and put my cards on my Mac. I have bought a few CDB by local studios for the historical society here and a lot of other historical items and I also buy local memorabilia for my daughter and her husband...
Thanks for the ping!
That is such a great idea about the local memorabilia. I would love a gift like that. It takes thought. I’ll bet your collection is wonderful.
You might want to consider a website as well since a lot of local people would love to see your images.
Mine will be up on Mac.com ;-)
I live 12 blocks from where pic number 1 was taken. Today it’s in Sunset Park.....
I only lived in New York for a year, but that was long enough to learn at least one thing - don’t bother arguing with a resident!
But I’d forgotten that Riverdale was north of the Harlem - that makes you guys the Bronx, right?
Anyway, you made me curious about Inwood, and then I remembered with satelite technology, one can visit just about anyplace desired from one’s easy chair - so I punched up Google maps, and checked out the north end of Manhatten Island. I didn’t do the street view, and I didn’t browse all of Inwood, but from a series of reasonably tight aerial shots, Inwood looks like solid apartment/condo-type buildings. Although I will admit if somebody slipped a ranch home in there somewhere it’d be easy to miss.
I remember visiting the Cloisters a couple of times while I was in the city, and from that elevation, you get a pretty good overview of the nearby neighborhoods (Washington Heights?). Again, as I recall, just apartment block after apartment block, as far as this eye could see.
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