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A sign in front of a movie theater in March of 1933 says that, in view of the "national emergency," checks issued by local banks will be accepted for payment.
Photo: Encyclopædia Britannica via El Mundo
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Jack Jegerke, the proud captor of three cats in the Great Bowling Green Neighborhood Cat Roundup, after leading his pals in the cleanup campaign conducted by the Bowling Green Neighborhood Association, March 28, 1925. More than a thousand homeless cats, ekeing out a filthy existence along the waterfront, were gathered in and given homes by the children.
Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America
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Nat Holman, coach of the City College of New York (CCNY to locals) "Cinderella team" waves from shoulders of his players at Madison Square Garden after his team beat Bradley University to capture the NCAA title, March 28, 1950. Ten days earlier, CCNY had beaten Bradley to win the National Invitation Tournament. Years later, when the NCAA celebrated its 75th anniversary, CCNY's "double" of winning the NIT and NCAA tournaments in a two-week span was pronounced the Number 1 moment in the organization's history.
Photo: Associated Press
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Well, the calendar does say Spring. These folks rushed the season a bit in 1941 when they stretched out on Coney Island Beach to catch some rays. They had to bring their own space heater (on the right).
Photo: Weegee via the Int'l Center of Photography
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Cover of the Saturday Evening Post for March 27, 1947. Illustration by John Falter.
From the editors of that issue: It is more than a spring downpour that John Falter records in this New York City scene; it is a phenomenon the weather experts keep still about, probably because they can’t explain it, one of Nature’s little practical jokes. The day will be beautiful from the time thousands of men and women settle down for the day’s work until 4:55 in the afternoon; the sky smiling, not a cloud anywhere except a couple as innocent as cotton batting. But exactly at quitting time, at the moment best calculated to catch thousands between office and home, down comes the rain, like a sack of water thrown from a hotel window or a pan rigged over the door on April Fool’s Day. It quits just as punctually, when you reach home.
Photo: Saturday Evening Post
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A crystal-clear shot of a DC-4 flying over Manhattan, 1939.
Photo: Margaret Bourke-White via the Atlas Gallery
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In 1921, Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel for "barnstorming" after the Yankees' World Series victory. On March 27, 1922, during spring training, they all shook hands and made up. God knows what Landis would think of today's celebrations, both on and off the field.
Photo: Associated Press
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Fifth Ave. & 42nd St., 1950.
Photo: Charles Phelps Cushing via Fine Art America
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Chevrolet Protected Delivery on Park Avenue, 1936.
Photo: John Gutmann via the Center for Creative Photography
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This is what ticker tape really looked like, March 26, 1942. The stuff pouring out of the machine for a clerk at Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Beane is like something out of a cartoon—I can see it going and going until it fills up the room.
Photo: Robert Wands for the AP via Money Review
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A grocer at J. Ferrara Grocery in Brooklyn Heights, in March 1958.
Photo: David Attie via Getty Images
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"New York Styles" for spring and summer: ad for Bedell's, a department store on 34th Street, from Pictorial Review, 1920.
Photo: olddesignshop.com
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That photo of the young cop watching the Easter Parade was supposed to be posted on Sunday. My queue is all scrambled. I’ve written to Tumblr Help but I’m skeptical that they’ll do anything. Is anyone else having trouble with their queue?
I’ll have to stop it and just post manually.
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A young cop watches the Easter parade along with the crowd, across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral, at the entrance to Rockefeller Center, 1953.
Photo: Michael W. Gorth/Lost Colour Library/Daily Mail
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Nine-year-old Helen Stor, clad in Bohemian native dress, holds coin boxes against Hitler that will circulate on March 25, 1939, when a "Stop Hitler" parade was planned. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise was honorary grand marshal for the parade, which was sponsored by the American Council to Combat Nazi Invasion. They said they expected 250,000 to attend. Unfortunately, it took more than a parade to stop Hitler.
Photo: Associated Press via the Berkshire Eagle
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A Harlem street scene in the 1920s.
Photo: NY Daily News via Getty Images
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