{"id":64315,"date":"2024-06-07T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=64315"},"modified":"2024-06-07T20:01:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T20:01:48","slug":"1925-nyc-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/1925-nyc-map\/","title":{"rendered":"1925 NYC map"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week on ‘Picture Postals’, another map and also a departure from the Providence theme. New York City’s subway and ‘elevated’ railway system in 1925, drawn by E.R. Trott and given away to customers by a large hotel. In Red Hook Lovecraft was living in the bottom-right corner of the map. See “CLINTON” written in capitals at an angle, and then find “Atlantic” and intersect the two… and you’re about there. <\/p>\n

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2988 pixels on the longest side, and thus readable if downloaded at full size. A very useful map if reading Lovecraft’s 1925 Diary<\/em> and letters from New York, since it also has many of the street names, parks, ferry lines, museums, libraries, and even the dock numbers. All for 1925.<\/p>\n

And to bring the map somewhat to life, here we glimpse a typical subway entrance with news-stand, at Columbus Circle in October 1925. On one of the southern corners of Central Park…<\/p>\n

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Note the news vendor’s baseball bat, ready to hand. Hoodlums got what was coming to them, in those days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week on ‘Picture Postals’, another map and also a departure from the Providence theme. New York City’s subway and …<\/p>\n

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