— The Wright Brothers (
Kitty Hawk, NC — Orville and Wilbur
Learning To Fly
First, a man had to get off the ground, before he could step on the moon.
— Thomas A. Edison (Actualities)
Invitation To America
When Immigrants Were Welcome
Statue Of Liberty
NYC
1900 —
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union founded.
Spuyten Duyvil Bridge rebuilt.
Population: 3,437,202.
1901 —
Bergdorf Goodman (shop) in business.
Rockefeller Institute and Chapin School established.
National Negro Business League headquartered in city.
1902 —
Macy’s Herald Square and Algonquin Hotel open.
Flatiron Building constructed.
1903 —
New York Highlanders baseball team active.
Williamsburg Bridge
New Amsterdam Theatre
Lyric Theatre
1904 —
June 15: Steamboat General Slocum, carrying 1300 to a picnic site on Long Island, catches fire and sinks while on the East River alongside Astoria, Queens. Over 1000 passengers are killed, a major factor in the demise of the Little Germany neighborhood.
New York City Subway begins operating.
IRT wildcat strike.
Stuyvesant High School and Hispanic Society of America established.
1905 —
Institute of Musical Art founded.
Columbus Circle laid out.
Ratner’s restaurant in business.
291 (art gallery) opens.
1906 —
June 25: Stanford White is shot and killed by Harry Kendall Thaw at what was then Madison Square Gardens. The murder would soon be dubbed “The Crime of the Century.”
Hammerstein Ballroom opens.
DeWitt Clinton Park laid out.
Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise established.
Mamma Leone’s restaurant in business.
1907 —
December 31 — The first Times Square Ball drop.
Plaza Hotel in business.
Japan Society founded.
Ziegfeld Follies active.
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House and Audubon Terrace built.
1908 —
Singer Building constructed.
1909 —
September/October: Hudson-Fulton Celebration of the 300th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River and the 100th anniversary of Robert Fulton’s first successful commercial application of the paddle steamer.
New York Amsterdam News begins publication.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower built.
International Women’s Day held.
The Showgirls
of New York City
Original Broadway Production, 1913, WWI
1920 — MIAMI BEACH
Ocean Drive, Art Deco Hotels, Rum Runners, Havana, Bacardi, Sugar Cane, Cuba, Cigars, Rum, Runners, Bahamas, Fast Boats, Miami Vice, Cocaine …
1932 — NYC
For many, the end of the Underground Railroad was New York City, where black writers, actors, musicians, and painters found an artistic freedom they had only dreamed of. Taking advantage of their new found liberation, they created, not only a community, but a movement, that in the 1920s became known as THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE.
— Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott
July 17, 1898 / December 9, 1991
Bernice Alice Abbott — An American photographer best known for her work during the years between the two World Wars. Portraits of influential, World figures, and New York City Architecture anof the 1930s.
MANRAY —
1937 —
A Renaissance
In Harlem
“Open Letter To A Landlord”
b/ Living Colour (1989) Brooklyn, New York
((play))
Among the hundreds of artists who made up the Harlem Renaissance,
Duke Ellington stood atop those who contributed musically.
“Harlem Nocturne”
b/ Alicia Keys (2010)
1932 — NYC
For many, the end of the Underground Railroad was New York City, where black writers, actors, musicians, and painters found an artistic freedom they had only dreamed of. Taking advantage of their new found liberation, they created, not only a community, but a movement, that in the 1920s became known as THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE.
— Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott
July 17, 1898 / December 9, 1991
Bernice Alice Abbott — An American photographer best known for her work during the years between the two World Wars. Portraits of influential, World figures, and New York City Architecture anof the 1930s.
MANRAY —
1937 —
Strange Fruit
b/ Billie Holiday
((play))
Billie Holiday b/ William P. Gottlieb
Billie Holiday (1939)
The song (“Strange Fruit“) was written by Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish school teacher in the Bronx, New York. Holiday was always uncomfortable singing the song, the lyrics being so sad and horrific. From the first time she sang it at Café Society, New York City’s first integrated nightclubs, in Greenwich Village, until the end of her career, Holiday wept whenever she sang it.
• STRANGE FRUIT / TRICKY REMIX (VERVE) 2002.
1929 —
Black Tuesday
October 24-29, 1929
Wall Street Crash
The Great Depression
Grapes of Wrath
Dust Bowl
Cannery Row
Porgy & Bess
George Gershwin
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across the world; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. The Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how intensely the global economy can decline.
The Great Depression started in the United States after a major fall in stock prices that began around September 4, 1929, and became worldwide news with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, (known as Black Tuesday). Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II.
— Dorothea Lange (1936)
Dorothea Lange‘s Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.
Hard Times
b/ Curtis Mayfield
There’s No Place Like America Today (1975)
((play))
World’s Highest Standard of Living (1937)
— Weegee
With The Naked Eye
— Weegee
John Zorn — Downtown Saxophone (1990)
They Only Come Out At Night
Walk On The Wild Side
Lou Reed
Velvet Underground
Andy Warhol
World’s Highest Standard of Living (1937)
1934 — SILVER SPRINGS
— TARZAN & HIS MATE (1934)
Silver Springs, and later, Weeki Wachee became favorite locations for Hollywood movie makers to depict the African jungle.
1935 — ORMOND BEACH
— Ormond Beach (1935)
The earliest (turn-of-the-20th Century) automobile racing, land speed records on the flat and wide, hard-packed, silty sand of Florida’s East Coast, north of Cape Canaveral.
1937 —
— FloridaNaviGator.Org
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Novel) 1937
Ft. Pierce, Florida painters (1957)
Harold Newton was 19 years old in 1955, a young, talented, African American artist,living in Fort Pierce, Florida, and selling mostly Christian paintings out on the side of U.S.1. It was then he met A. E. Backus, a prominent Florida landscape artist, who convinced Newton that he could make more money if he were to create paintings of landscapes, rather than religious scenes. Newton excelled, artistically, but was forced to sell his work out of the trunk of his car, because art galleries in South Florida refused to represent black artists. The next year,1956, having been introduced to 14-year-old Alfred Hair by the local high school art teacher, Backus again found himself teaching another young, talented, black painter, and after three years, Hair, like Newton before him, began selling his Florida landscapes on U.S.1, within Fort Pierce. Newton and Hair inspired a loose-knit group of African American artists to follow their leads. Newton is recognized by fellow artists for his technical inspiration while Hair was the businessman, who emerged as the leader of the artistic group, who set the tone for the group through the 1960s, and earned the painters enough so that they could make a living with their art, rather than picking citrus and vegetables on local farms and orange groves.
They attracted a group of a “young, energetic” artists who painted large quantities of brilliantly colorful impressionistic landscapes that they each sold from their cars. In 1970, the group lost its charismatic leader when Hair was killed in a barroom brawl at age 29 and the prodigious output of the movement’s artists began to wane. By the 1980s, a shift in public tastes and the growth of corporate entities like Disney World further reduced the demand for the movement’s art.
— Weegee
NAKED CITY
Walk On The Wild Side
Lou Reed
Velvet Underground
Andy Warhol
— dave.
1934 —
— TARZAN & HIS MATE (1934)
Silver Springs, and later, Weeki Wachee became favorite locations for Hollywood movie makers to depict the African jungle.
1937 —
— FloridaNaviGator.Org
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Novel) 1937
1947 —
Weeki Wachee Springs is a natural tourist attraction located in Weeki Wachee, Florida, where underwater performances by “mermaids,” women wearing fish tails as well as other fanciful outfits, can be viewed in an aquarium-like setting in the spring of the Weeki Wachee River. A waterpark, Buccaneer Bay, river boat rides, kayak and paddleboard rental are some of the other activities offered at Weeki Wachee Springs.
The spring was named “Weeki Wachee” by Seminole Indians, which means “Little Spring” or “Winding River” in their language. The attraction was created in 1947 by stunt swimmer and attraction promoter Newt Perry, who based the show on underwater air hose breathing techniques. First an 18-seat theater, then later a newer theater with a capacity of 50, were embedded in the lime rock of the spring with viewing windows below the surface of the water, to allow visitors to watch the mermaids perform in the spring. The Incredible Mr. Limpet, an American live-action/animated comedy film produced by Warner Bros. had its premiere on January 20, 1964, at the Weeki Wachee Springs Underwater Theater. It was the world’s first underwater movie premiere. In 1982, Buccaneer Bay was opened with water slides, a lazy river, and a white sand beach for visitors to enjoy alongside the theater with the mermaid shows.
A fashion photograph taken at Weeki Wachee spring, by Toni Frissell, first published in Harper’s Bazaar, December 1947.
1952 —
— Million Dollar Mermaid
Esther Williams — The Million Dollar Mermaid, and water musical star was a Fort Lauderdale neighbor of Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan), who had led the movie-making way to Florida.
— Million Dollar Mermaid
Ft. Pierce, Florida painters (1957)
Harold Newton was 19 years old in 1955, a young, talented, African American artist,living in Fort Pierce, Florida, and selling mostly Christian paintings out on the side of U.S.1. It was then he met A. E. Backus, a prominent Florida landscape artist, who convinced Newton that he could make more money if he were to create paintings of landscapes, rather than religious scenes. Newton excelled, artistically, but was forced to sell his work out of the trunk of his car, because art galleries in South Florida refused to represent black artists. The next year,1956, having been introduced to 14-year-old Alfred Hair by the local high school art teacher, Backus again found himself teaching another young, talented, black painter, and after three years, Hair, like Newton before him, began selling his Florida landscapes on U.S.1, within Fort Pierce. Newton and Hair inspired a loose-knit group of African American artists to follow their leads. Newton is recognized by fellow artists for his technical inspiration while Hair was the businessman, who emerged as the leader of the artistic group, who set the tone for the group through the 1960s, and earned the painters enough so that they could make a living with their art, rather than picking citrus and vegetables on local farms and orange groves.
They attracted a group of a “young, energetic” artists who painted large quantities of brilliantly colorful impressionistic landscapes that they each sold from their cars. In 1970, the group lost its charismatic leader when Hair was killed in a barroom brawl at age 29 and the prodigious output of the movement’s artists began to wane. By the 1980s, a shift in public tastes and the growth of corporate entities like Disney World further reduced the demand for the movement’s art.
— East Coast Surf
• Kate Upton
— OriginalNoise.Org
— dave.