1930s NYC Postcard: Automat

My Dad unearthed this vintage gem in a folio of my late grandmother's collected photos and cards.

Ironically, I kept getting outbid on this very same card on eBay and gave up on it some months ago.

Thanks, Nana Rose, for passing this down to me from the back of beyond... Much appreciated!

Archive: Vintage NYC In Drawings & Paintings (1997-1999)

CHRISTIAN MONTONE (1997 - 1999)

Drawings and Paintings:  Assorted NYC Street Scenes and Building Details.

From 1997 to 1999, I was creating (what I then considered to be) varied and illustrative pieces in which modern day New York City crossed paths with the varied New Yorks Of The Past... mainly those from 1950s and 1960s.  This was before I was an eBay user or an avid internet picture seeker, so I used the picture collection of The NY Public Library and any vintage NYC book, postcard or brochure I could find to gather reference.  I'm currently using reference I've gathered (from many sources) in the years since to build a newer (and much more cohesive) body of NYC-related pieces that touch upon the concept of multi-decade visual time travel, but I still look back on these seminal works and smile.

Collage: Capitals

Personal collage, built for and displayed in my home.

"Capitals" 24 x 36 inches (2003)

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Collage: Untitled (But Wacky)

Personal collage, framed and displayed at home.

24 x 36 inches.  Composed of 1970s Wacky Packages stickers, 1950s and 60s comic strip clippings, 1950s New York City tourist map and H-O Scale train set boxes as well as slide film transparency boxes.  Also included are game cards from "Game Of The States".

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1950s & 60s: Leisure & Entertainment

A stash of 1950s and 1960s postcards from a recent flea market trip.

NYC As It Was: 1940s - 1970s

Elements and images of NYC from my postcard and photo collection: 1940s - 1970s. Full size images of these (and many others) are available by clicking the Flickr Photostream link at the upper right.

62 Vintage Images Of Times Square

Pictures of Times Square and its many decades of lights and signs from my collection of postcards, books, records and snapshots.