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Downtown Manhattan Art Deco

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Back in June, the Art Deco Society of New York offered a walking tour of lower Manhattan, highlighting the great Art Deco buildings of the financial district. It was a chilly evening but it was worth a few shivers as it was a very interesting and informative tour. I want to highlight the two tallest buildings […]

Fortunes made in the Depression

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Conceived by Time Magazine co-creator, Henry Luce, as the “ideal super-class magazine”, during the very last moments of 1920’s prosperity, Fortune Magazine debuted in February, 1930, just before most people realized that the Wall Street slump was sliding down into a lasting economic depression. Fortune was a luxuriously produced, oversized (11 by 14 inches) magazine, that used fine, […]