Remembering Old Stationery Stores
Back in the day, people of all ages were drawn to stationery stores to acquire items which, for the most part, could only be found
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Tag: history
Be Kind, Rewind: The Days of Video Rental Shops on the Upper West Side
Gone? Yes … long gone. You may remember video rental stores of the 1980s and ’90s; perhaps watching movies that a parent brought home to
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Looking Back: Osner Business Machines
We are living in a period where models of extraordinary resilience are deeply valued. Take the example of Stanley Adelman, who with his wife Mary,
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Old Images of People Looking Ridiculously Dapper in Central Park
Remember the days when you would put on your very best gown, three-piece suit or top hat, and head to the park for a leisurely
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LeRoy Neiman: Master of Many Arenas
Artist LeRoy Neiman’s career success likely went very far beyond his dreams. Born in Minnesota, he lived in Europe for a few years and then
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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