SUGAR + MEOWS

The most beautiful day!

600 Shields Drive, San Pedro; September 12, 1992 – John Humble (American, b.1944)

And today.

A cropped version of this image was used as the album art for This World is Not My Home by Lone Justice.

lostsplendor

Central Park Views; New York City, 1933

via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive

Every Building on The Sunset Strip – Ed Ruscha

The Hotel Delphoria’s penthouse suite from Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (1987)

This is how I want to live.

kolkhara:

John Sloan (American, 1871–1951), Cornelia Street, 1920. Oil on canvas

50.8 x 40.64 cm. Private collection.

2029 1^st Street, Boyle Heights; February 26, 1998 – John Humble (American, b.1944)

And view it today. Looks like the price went up from 87¢ to 98¢!

oakcat:

by Tom Palumbo

thorsteinulf:

Street and Railway Bridge (1946) – John Minton

lacalaveracatrina:

Metropolis – The upper City. Day Break (drawing, 1927) – Erich Kettelhut

The New York City cityscape in winter, facing north from the top of the Flatiron Building

From Bell, Book and Candle (dir. Richard Quine, 1958)

Panorama of New York’s Central Park and Upper East Side from An Affair to Remember (dir. Leo McCarey, 1957)

This footage was reused in HBO’s Grey Gardens, as the tall building to the right is the Pierre Hotel, where Little Edie Beale had her debut.

palavre:

by Gail Albert Halaban