Nostalgia

TITANIC

 

 

Here, an Irish woman sells lace on board a second-class deck. There was no protocol on the Titanic that said your luggage couldn't be full of goods to sell on board. For many people who resorted to a life of sales, buying a ticket on the Titanic would have been a gamble they were willing to take.

This woman was likely hoping that the profits made on the trip would help fund a new life for her in America.

 

 

  Iconic Staircase

LAST PHOTO TAKEN OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

 

 

A Halloween Party at the Home of William & Ethel Hassler at 150 Vermilyea Avenue in Inwood, Upper Manhattan. This photo was taken on October 31, 1916

New York City Socialite Mary Hoyt Wiborg Serving Tea in her Manhattan Apartment in 1922.

 

May 29, 1942. 237 W. 51st. Premiere of Yankee Doodle Dandy. NYC’s Hollywood Theater.

 

1946. Madison Square Garden. Children peer through a small opening in a door at Madison Square Garden trying to get a peek at performers in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

 

Manhattan: Carl Schurz Park -around 86th Street/ East River (ca 1920)

The Bronx: Grand Concourse -North of Fordham Road (March 12th 1929

 

Gotham fire house and engine, East 3rd St. (now Ladder 9, Engine 33, 42 Great Jones Street), New York City, 1901.

 

In 1937 there were lunch counters in NYC subway stations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Siblings Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald’s at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California, USA on 15 May, 1940

The name is a play on the letters 'R' and 'B.' And despite some claims that it’s an ode to their classic sandwich, it doesn’t stand for “roast beef.” Rather, RB stands for Raffel Brothers, a nod to founders Leroy and Forrest Raffel, who opened the first Arby’s in Boardman, Ohio, on July 23, 1964. Arby’s was the first fast-food chain to ban smoking in all its restaurants.

 

The Automat. Horn & Hardart

 

 

The original formula for Dairy Queen's soft-serve was developed in 1938. Dairy Queen owns Orange Julius. Dairy Queen itself is owned by Berkshire Hathaway

 The company produces Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton. In 1889, the formula and brand were sold for $2,300 to Asa Griggs Candler, who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta in 1892.

At first, Coca-Cola was advertised as a drink that relieves headaches and was at first meant to be on sale in drugstores as a medicinal beverage. It was actually Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, who came up with the name of the drink and created its logo. The name, Coca-Cola, was chosen because of its two main ingredients at the time (coca leaves and kola nuts) and because of the pleasant-sounding alliteration of the words.

It's very first ad read, "Delicious! Refreshing! Exhilarating! Invigorating!" By 1895, Coca-Cola was so popular, it was being sold in every state in the US. And that's in large part due to Candler mailing out thousands of coupons for a free glass of Coca-Cola. The marketing stunt worked and Coca-Cola forever cemented itself as a global brand.