Anna Sosenko’s Star-Studded Life
Anna Sosenko’s life was never made into a biopic, nor was her full biography ever published as a book. But, this is a good one that got away.
Tag: history
A Look Back at The West Side TV Shopper
Today, living on a golf course north of Atlanta, Bruce and Olga Logan long for the Upper West Side. They spent more than 30 years in the neighborhood, living at …
Tony Schwartz & Sounds of the West Side
Tony Schwartz (1923-2008) was a multifaceted award-winning author, publicist, teacher and socially conscious ad man. He is particularly famous for devising the concept for the Daisy TV Ad, highlighting the threat …
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Victor’s Cafe: Succeeding Through Generations
Cuban immigrant Victor del Corral and his wife Eloina beat the odds and made an ongoing success of a restaurant he started in 1963, during some of the Upper West …
Gertrude Ederle: The Upper West Side’s Star Swimmer
Photos and newsreel clips from 1926 show Gertrude Ederle wearing a two-piece red swimsuit and matching bathing cap as she emerges victorious onto the banks of the English Channel. At …
The Silver Palate Remembered: A Sophisticated Influencer on the Upper West Side
The Silver Palette was a super sophisticated gourmet shop when it opened on the Upper West Side 43 years ago. The culinary innovations, captured in its cookbook, are still cool …
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An Interview with Barbara Weiser, A Founder of Charivari
About forty years ago, Barbara Weiser, her brother Jon, and their mother Selma were in Paris for the fashion collections. Fifteen years earlier, the three had opened an Upper West …
This UWS Celebration of Black History Took Place in 1913
The renowned Black intellectual, social justice activist and educator, W.E.B. Dubois, believed that art should be used for propaganda. For him, propaganda meant teaching and forwarding an anti-racist agenda.
The Lincoln Arcade: An Artist Incubator
Today’s Upper West Side is not where you’d expect to nab a cheap studio with a skylight. But, starting around 1904, that’s just what brought many artists, writers and singers …
Old Theaters and Rising Stars of The Early 1900s
Google “Ponselle” and you’ll find stunning video clips of the opera diva Rosa Ponselle. The soprano was born in 1897, and her voice was described as one of the most …
