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Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 7:21 am
by FloridaClay
Re: Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:20 am
by Curt A
Standing in line for the "Hit Of The Week"?
Re: Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 9:02 am
by FloridaClay
I wondered if it might have been the famous 1925 "Victor Day" when people lined up to hear the just introduced Orthophonics.
Clay
Re: Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:01 am
by phonojim
The caption says ca. 1921, so if that is true then it's none of the above.
Jim
Re: Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:29 am
by Curt A
August 5, 1921 – The first radio baseball game is broadcast; Harold Arlin announces the Pirates-Phillies game from Forbes Field over Westinghouse KDKA, in Pittsburgh.
Re: Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:39 am
by coyote
I like what appears to be a multitude of Nipper figurines along the top of the window display.
Re: Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 7:15 pm
by Edisone
Even if that was the coldest NYC August 5th in history, those wimmins in heavy coats and FUR collars must have been stifling. Suffering for fashion.
Re: Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:27 am
by wjw
Really nice facade and sign next door at Great China. Lunch 35 cents!
Re: Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 12:37 pm
by need4art
I really think they are line for Chinese Food-notice the Chop Suey sign!
Re: Get your Victrolas and records here!
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:54 pm
by 52089
need4art wrote:I really think they are line for Chinese Food-notice the Chop Suey sign!
My mother (now 91) often talks about how when she was a kid in Brooklyn in the 30's, her Mom would take her for a huge Chinese lunch which would cost 35 cents. Sometimes they would just get a huge bowl of yatke mein, a noodle soup with big slices of roast pork, for 10 cents.
I just had a Chinese lunch with my Mom last week and with tax and tip it was $25, and I thought that was still pretty cheap for what we ate!