Outtakes (6)

Diners, American and Queen.

[Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941, available from 1940s NYC. Click either image for a much larger view.]

Trade publications from the ’40s show Union Rebuilt Machinery at 318-322 Lafayette Street, Manhattan. The lot number for the first photo is likely 25. Searching for block=522 AND lot=25 in the Municipal Archives returns the address 155 Crosby Street and photographs with the brick wall and the URM advertisement. I can find no non-outtake with a clear view of the American Diner.

Google Maps shows an enormous Calvin Klein advertisement covering the wall. And no diner, of course.

See also the Tiny Diner.

More diners, not from the outtakes, to come.

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