Happy SUNday!

Whelan Drug Store on Long Island, New York. This one was in Hicksville (just north of Levittown, where I grew up). Same family name but no direct relationship. They were all over New York, and there was even one in Times Square.

Early 1950s on Long Island.
Times Square in the 1930s.
The less glamorous part of Times Square.

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Yashica on Broadway 1962

November-December 1962. Yashica billboard in NYC.

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Yashica ad from late 1962 features a typical TLR, rangefinder, and SLR popular at that time.

“Yashica Cameras, The World Over”

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Loew’s State Theatre located at 1540 Broadway, was running the just-released “Mutiny on the Bounty” at the time these photos were taken.

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Times Square NYC – 1996

How quickly things change in Times Square. 1996 looks like eons ago… wait, it was eons ago!

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Not the best of scans. Canon EOS Rebel 2000 on Kodak Kodacolor film. NYC – May 1996

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