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- The most dangerous fire escape I've ever seen
- Out of Place
- Sir Bedevere
- Witch way to the fire?
- Proud to be an old Coot
- That old scale
- Bowled Over
- Cat years?
- 'Why' Wyoming?
- His Master's Voice
- What! No dish under the skewer?
- Only in Hollywood?
- What's Up Doc?
- Destination?
- I'm pretty sure this was a voluntary program
- When I see chicken wire rabbit cages I think of three things
- The War Ears
- Eating the bunnies? Really?
- A love affair with a machine
- Hasenpfeffer
- Back support
- Hot type!
- Can you smell ... the news?
- Looking across the street and Flong
- Memories of my elderly hoarder neighbor
- Linotype in the Twilight Zone
- By Memory?
- Quiet place
- Line Of Type
- And no hearing protection
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Annex 5: 1910
Circa 1910. "Sunset from the Battery -- New York, N.Y." With a cameo by the Pennsylvania Railroad ferryboat Annex 5. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.
Changing Light Bulbs
Must have been pretty scary. One slip and it's in the drink you go!
[Arc lamps don't have bulbs. The fixtures lower when the carbons need replacing. - Dave]
Thanks Dave. Always learn something new here.
Rare view
Altogether a beautiful pic of a rarely visited area of Manhattan.
A to B?
That's Pier A on the right (remarkably, both it and the Jersey Central terminal across the river, the two main buildings in this photo, are still extant)
But it's considerably to the south of all the Hudson River Ferry terminals; which raises the question of the Annex's destination (or origination, if it's westbound). Could it have been a terminal in Brooklyn?
That does, indeed, seem to have been a regular route (I suspect the name "Annex" signifies that)
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