This might be Queens Blvd. not that it matters. I love the past too much. The cheap gas, the Porcelain Pegasus and the old cars which had bumpers on the front and also on the rear. Does anyone remember bumpers? Chrome coated steel which was ready to absorb impact without crumbling like a fuckin’ potato chip…
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This is sort of a bonus image since I just scanned it the other day, 24 years after having taken it! Combing old negatives will hopefully provide many more interesting images down the road…
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Most people my age can remember going to one of these automats with their parents or grandparents. The pies were famous for being edible, where as their sandwiches sucked. There were revolving tables inside the machines which were a lot of fun for a kid to operate. Back in the 1920’s when H & H restaurants were popping up all over the city, many of the treats were probably just 5¢…
I always have to stop from waxing poetic about the good old days, for fear of sounding like Glen Beck (The schmuck on CNN)
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I think this is a fantastic porcelain neon sign. I once stopped in and tried the food, but I personally did not think it was very good. I may not be an expert on food, but when it comes to old signs, I do know my stuff…
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This store had been in business for at least forty years and was now crumbling and dealing with the crack epidemic. The Pepsi-Cola sign dates back to the 1940’s…
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All Photos © Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
Somewhere in Brooklyn I found this dilapidated billboard and I guess you could say that this was taken in “Peacetime”…The cold war was on the verge of ending and it had been quite some time since the troops left Vietnam…Just three years later George Bush the first would start the last conventional war in this country’s history. Unfortunately the end of war as it had been known for ages, would not be the end of war…
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Marilyn Monroe had finally begun to lose her luster in 1987…
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 