June 1st, 2016: 5th Avenue

[xoxoxoBruce]

♫ On the avenue, 5th Avenue,
....The photographers will snap us,
♫ And you'll find that you're in the Rotogravure.
.... Oh, I could write a sonnet, about your Easter bonnet,
♫ And of the guy I'm taking to the Easter Parade.

5th Avenue, New York City, where you can spend money faster than they can print it.



Obviously this isn't a new picture, it was taken around 1931.
5th Avenue and 40th Street, looking North, and on the right is the New York Public Library.
I see no lanes painted, two way traffic, parking on both sides, men in hats, women in hats, jaywalkers,
cop standing in the street directing traffic, and double decker busses with and without canvas covers.



Considering the engines in all those vehicle were not real efficient, I'll bet the smell was pretty strong.
Made me think of standing on the tiny balcony of a forth floor office in Madrid during the morning commute.
Most of the bumper to bumper inbound traffic was diesel powered, and I was overpowered.
But in New York, it probably smelled better than the thousands of tons of horse poop a few short years earlier.

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