Old Images of Washington Heights and Inwood

[seacrel]

Wow, thanks for posting this. Doesn't the 1933 photo look so clean!

[23 yrs in Inwood (aka 18, etc.)]

I was surprised by all of the advertising signage.

[indianrd]

I was surprised by all of the advertising signage.

But it was a little more tasteful than anything in the present.

[23 yrs in Inwood (aka 18, etc.)]

But it was a little more tasteful than anything in the present.

At first glance, yes.

But I think we would need to see a color photograph to be sure.

[Bloo Pynt]

I suspect it's the prominence of the word BEER that makes it so tasteful!

 

[Bloo Pynt]

Hundreds of historic penny postcards from all 50 states. For example, just locally:







http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/special/ppcs/ppcs.html

Follow the links to all kinds of other interesting data....

[23 yrs in Inwood (aka 18, etc.)]

NYPL Digital Image ID: 804959
The Speedway  (now the Harlem River Drive) and Harlem River, near Washington Bridge. 1890




NYPL Digital Image ID: 836115
Speedway and Washington Bridge
1903




NYPL Digital Image ID: 836177
circa 190-





NYPL Digital Image ID: 836103
High Bridge

[23 yrs in Inwood (aka 18, etc.)]

NYPL Digital Image ID: 716403F
P.S. 169
Located at 68 Audubon Avenue, on the west side of the avenue, between West 168th and West 169th Streets (1920's)




NYPL Digital Image ID: 716400F
(about 1926)
Photograph by Ewing Galloway

[Bloo Pynt]

From the Indian Road Cafe e-mail newsletter:

COMING SOON
...on the first Monday of each month, starting March 2nd at 7:30PM, it's
LOST INWOOD: Slides, photos & artifacts from our neighborhood's past...

[23 yrs in Inwood (aka 18, etc.)]

The big ginkgo tree in Isham Park along Broadway:

http://myinwood.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/212-and-broadway-1925.jpg
1925

http://flickr.com/photos/baslow/357035663/
2007


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Also from the My Inwood website, a slideshow of photographs of many Inwood spots, past and present:
http://myinwood.net/now-and-then/


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Likewise, a slideshow of photographs of Dyckman House, past and present:
http://myinwood.net/dyckman-house-slideshow/

[Viking]

I love that you can see the milage markers in the stonewall along broadway..... It is still there today!

[23 yrs in Inwood (aka 18, etc.)]

I love that you can see the milage markers in the stonewall along broadway..... It is still there today!

Of course, the milsetone's location is apparently not its original location.

The My Inwood site says:

This neighborhood treasure might have been forgotten completely; if not for Inwood historian William Calver, who put these words to paper in 1932:

“…We were told that the stone originally stood at the 203rd Street corner....”

http://myinwood.net/old-post-road/



And the Columbia site says:

"Embedded in the stone wall directly beneath the tree is a milestone marker that once stood at 191st Street and Broadway…."

http://www.arch.columbia.edu/hp/studio/2003-2004/northernHistory.html


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Take your pick!


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As seen at myinwood.net:



http://myinwood.net/late-19th-century-inwood-part-i/#more-3254

But the above wall looks rather different from the current wall, which can be seen in a more recent photo the Bridge & Tunnel Club website:

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/uppermanhattan/inwood/ishampark/index.htm

[Bloo Pynt]

At Indian Road Cafe tonight:

7:30PM,  LOST INWOOD:  slides, photos & artifacts from our neighborhood's past
Tonight - 100 Years Before Indiana Jones: A presentation of magic lantern slides chronicling Reginald Pelham Bolton and William Calver's turn-of-the-century Inwood archeological adventures.  From the collections of, and hosted by Inwood locals Don Rice & Jason Minter.

[23 yrs in Inwood (aka 18, etc.)]

I suppose the old Bolton Road (now part of Inwood Hill Park) must have been named after that guy (or a relative of his).

[Bloo Pynt]

He was of that family. An article by James Renner:

http://hhoc.org/hist/r_p_bolton.htm