Now & Then Photos

[skyvue]

Here are some more from the same series:

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Frame House: Bedford and Grove Streets

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Jefferson Market Court, Southwest Corner, Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street

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Patchin Place

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West 18th St., nos. 461-463

From the top of the steps at what is now the National Museum of the American Indian, located at One Bowling Green adjacent to the northeast corner of Battery Park.

 

[skyvue]

And here's one of me standing in the very spot where my favorite Buster Keaton gag took place:

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[Amy Jeanne]

And here's one of me standing in the very spot where my favorite Buster Keaton gag took place:

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That's so AWESOME!!! I can see the same building in the background!!

 

[skyvue]

Thanks, Amy Jeanne. Yeah, I was very excited to be standing in that spot (I'm a big Buster fan).

If anyone else is interested seeing locations from Keaton's films, I recommend John Bengtson's Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, which shows more than 100 sites from Keaton films, in most (if not all) cases showing the scene as it exists today.

That's how I found the particular spot seen in that photo.

 

[Mike in Seattle]

Paul Dorpat of the Seattle Times has written three or four books on "Seattle Now and Then" where he finds an old photograph and then takes a photograph of the same view today. He's had a weekly column in the Sunday supplement I guess for decades. He's used photos from the mid-1800's forward. I can honestly say it's the only thing I miss about cutting off my subscriptions several years ago, but I can still see the column online at their website.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

The Frame House photos are very interesting. How the building had a fire escape, and now doesn't, the shade of the windows, the texture of the building. I wouldn't mind seeing the present photos in color. The color of the buildings might have changed.

Skyvue, you reminded me I still need to visit the Brockman building in downtown Los Angeles. A famous scene was shot up above.....

 

[Brian Sheridan]

Thanks, Amy Jeanne. Yeah, I was very excited to be standing in that spot (I'm a big Buster fan).

If anyone else is interested seeing locations from Keaton's films, I recommend John Bengtson's Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, which shows more than 100 sites from Keaton films, in most (if not all) cases showing the scene as it exists today.

That's how I found the particular spot seen in that photo.

That is a GREAT book...so is the one on Charlie Chaplin in the same style.

 

[jake_fink]

And here's one of me standing in the very spot where my favorite Buster Keaton gag took place:

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:eusa_clap lol :eusa_clap