COLUMBUS CIRCLE
"The Coliseum is New York City's newest center for the trade shows, exhibitions and conventions. The exhibition area covers 300,000 sq. ft. and is capable of holding 35,000 people."
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
THE GALLERY OF MODERN ART
"New York's newest art museum which includes The Huntington Hartford collection of art. Overlooking Columbus Circle at 59th Street, Broadway and 8th Avenue, New York City, this unique modern building is devoted to painting and sculpture of the past 200 years."
SKYLINE MOTOR INN
49th to 50th Street, on Tenth Avenue
New York 19, N.Y., Tel. JU 6-3400
"A world of wonderful convenience in the heart of New York"
"130 modern air conditioned rooms and suites; TV; restaurant, coffee shop, cocktail lounge; Free self-parking on premises."
HOWARD JOHNSON'S MOTOR LODGE
8TH AVE. BETWEEN 51st & 52nd STS.
TELEPHONE: LT 1-4100
"1 block from Times Sq. 300 air conditioned rooms; famed Howard Johnson's restaurant; cocktail lounge; free and easy parking."
UPTOWN HEADQUARTERS OF FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK
399 PARK AVE. NEW YORK, N.Y.
PERMANENT EXHIBITION THE STORY OF BANKING
FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK
399 Park Ave., New York, N.Y.
Open Wednesdays from 10-6
Saturdays from 10-3
UNION CARBIDE BUILDING
"Headquarters for Union Carbide Corporation, this 52-story skyscraper is the world's tallest stainless steel building. Located at 270 Park Avenue, New York City."
PAN AM BUILDING
PARK AVENUE and 38th STREET
"World's largest commercial office building, 59 floors, 1/2 acre roof-top heliport, 808 ft. high, seventh tallest office structure in the world. 65 elevators and 18 electric stairways include the world's fastest high rise bank of elevators moving at the rate of 1,700 ft. per minute - four 4-foot wide moving stairs leading into building from main concourse of Grand Central Terminal, capable of handling 30,000 persons per hour."
Looking North - Grand Central Terminal in foreground
Looking South-East - Chrysler Building in Background
Looking South-East - Union Carbide Building in Right Foreground
Grand Central Terminal before construction of Pan Am Building
Monday, June 1, 2015
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
"Members' Penthouse. The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York 19, N. Y. Philip L. Goodwin and Edward D. Stone, Architects.
"Beautiful Gardens"
FOUNTAIN OF THE MUSES - METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
By the Swedish-American sculptor Carl Milles
installed in the Restaurant
of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"This fountain was inspired by the story of the goddess Aganippe, who frequented a spring on the road leading up to Mount Helican in Greece. From the Spring of Aganippe gushed waters of inspiration, which five of the fountain figures, representing the arts, have just been drinking. Filled with enthusiasm, they are rushing home, each artist carrying his symbol with him.
NIGHT VIEW of the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART c. 1960
Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
5th AVENUE (88th to 89th STS.
"Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. A museum with major examples of painting, sculpture and the graphic arts of the recent past."
"Main Gallery and exhibition ramps of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue and 88th Street. Designed by the late Frank Lloyd Wright, the building is cylindrical in shape, six stories high with a hollow core. Paintings and sculpture are displayed along a gently spiralling ramp, affording the visitor continuous viewing of major works of contemporary art."
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
"This magnificent sports and entertainment center is shown with a background of the Pan American, Chrysler and Empire State Buildings in the heart of the fabulous New York City."
"An aerial view showing the sports and entertainment center (left) and the companion 29-story glass sheathed office building. The Center is located above the Pennsylvania Railroad Station on an 8-1/2 acre plot."
"An unusual evening view of the Center. On the right is the new Madison Square Garden Sports and Entertainment Center where every seat has an unobstructed view of the floor. On the left is a companion 29-story office building known as Two Pennsylvania Plaza."
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD TERMINAL
(DEMOLISHED for new Madison Square Garden Center)
2nd MADISON SQUARE GARDEN at 8th and 49th Streets
(DEMOLISHED)
1st MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
(DEMOLISHED)
GENERAL MOTORS BUILDING
"A new landmark on Fifth Avenue. Sheathed in white marble, the 50-story GENERAL MOTORS BUILDING at 767 Fifth Avenue, viewed from the Grand Army Plaza."
The Savoy Plaza
"Overlooking Central Park"
Fifth Avenue - 58th to 59th Street
NEW YORK 22, N. Y.
1000 Rooms - AIR CONDITIONED - T. V.
Telephone: ELDORADO 5-2600
(DEMOLISHED for construction of the GENERAL MOTORS BUILDING)
MANUFACTURES TRUST COMPANY
"NEW concept in bank design. This distinctive Fifth Avenue office of Manufactures Trust Company at 43rd Street, New York City, offers inviting, comfortable surroundings for banking transactions."
666 5TH AVENUE
"View looking south along New York's Fabulous Fifth Avenue showing the modernistic 39-story Tishman Building, 666 Fifth Avenue, with its gleaming aluminum and glass facade, a major addition to the city's magnificent architectural achievement. In the foreground is St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
Top of the Six's
666 FIFTH AVENUE
New York 19, New York
"Breathtaking view of Manhattan. Fine food with a continental touch served in an atmosphere of French Provincial elegance. Luncheon, cocktails, dinner, after theater supper. Open Sundays. Plaza 7-6662 for reservations."
CITY SQUIRE MOTOR INN
Broadway, 51st-52nd Streets, New York 19, N. Y.
Tel.: (212) LT 1-3300
"A 21-story, 727-room motor inn. Fully air conditioned. On the Great White Way. FREE in-hotel parking. Year 'round swimming pool and Finnish Sauna baths. Famous Red Coach Grill-cocktail lounge. Coffee Shop."
"A LOEW'S HOTEL - PRESTON R. TISCH, PRESIDENT"
SHERATON ATLANTIC HOTEL
Broadway at 34th Street, New York
"1500 Rooms with Bath and Radio... some with television (now being remodeled and air conditioned). Close to Penn. Station, both Air Terminals... B. & O. Buses stop at door... Subway at entrance... same block as the Empire State Building... big Department Stores right at hand... Times Square, Theaters, United Nations, Radio City are easily accessible. NOW A SHERATON HOTEL... with all that means in the way of smoother service and smarter decor.
"Free reservations by Reservatron reserves and confirms your hotel room in 4 seconds."
TIMES SQUARE AT NIGHT
"A brilliant night scene of Broadway, the theatrical and entertainment center of New York."
TIMES SQUARE AT NIGHT
"Night time comes to the rest of the world, but not to "The Great White Way." The many thousands of lights in Times Square give off a glow that is visible for many miles."
Color photo by A. Devany
NIGHT VIEW OF THE NEW ALLIED CHEMICAL BUILDING
"Remodeling of the old Times Tower into the Allied Chemical Tower at Times Square was completed in the mid 1965. Many of the traditions associated with the area are being continued at the new building, such as lowering a lighting ball at midnight each December 31 to mark the coming new year. Also retained is the lighted electric news sign which girdles the building just above the third floor."
ALLIED CHEMICAL TOWER
"Allied Chemical Tower
Consumer Research Center at #1 Times Square
Crossroads of the World"
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