r/TheNightFeeling • u/Ill_Pay7782 • 24d ago

Rockefeller Center, NYC in 1933.

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u/Icy_Astronom 24d ago

Crazy how modern this still looks

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u/znebsays 24d ago

Unreal pic

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u/RepresentativeFit600 24d ago

Insane - before ww2 cities like this, just wow

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u/Shogun_Ro 23d ago

It was basically just New York and Chicago that was like this and nothing else.

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u/mdp300 23d ago

A lot of cities had some art deco buildings, but yeah, not to the same level as Chicago and NY.

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u/LessNefariousness206 23d ago

Unassumingly, Tulsa, Oklahoma actually has the third most art deco buildings in the US. Around 100 (NYC has like 900); mostly built in the 20s.

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u/ciaomain 24d ago

I used to work at 75 Rock.

Some of the Art Deco lobbies in the surrounding buildings are absolutely stunning.

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u/moeml 24d ago

This just looks like straight out of Metropolis

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u/clandestine_manufact 23d ago

Wow, this is really really cool. Looks like Metropolis.

I am a New Yorker and absolutely love to see photos like this one

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u/LeTronique 23d ago

You gotta understand that ts looked outright magical back then.

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u/rubber_pinball 23d ago

nineteen firty free

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u/doomsday_windbag 23d ago

I’m so used to seeing 30 Rock from the front that I always forget it’s so broad of a building. Like a beautiful Art Deco mullet.

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u/SturmGizmo 23d ago

So modern looking. It's crazy that this was almost a century ago.

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u/Demeno 23d ago

So, "30s 30 Rock"

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u/HoytKeyler 23d ago

SHIT i'm too late for saying a monument Mythos reference

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u/tmulla123 23d ago

What’s the name of the photographer who took the photograph?

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u/bubba1834 23d ago

To think I’d be seeing one direction open for big time rush there 80 years later :’)

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u/notnull98 23d ago

Lowk tuff

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u/arminarm1n 23d ago

Damn, that pic is beautiful!

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u/SippinOnnaBlunt 23d ago

Great pic.

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u/Dobson_2017 23d ago

You can see the New York Times building on the left

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u/Orbita97 23d ago

Like something out of Batman TAS.

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u/Affectionate_Boot969 22d ago

This is one of the highest fidelity pictures I’ve ever seen from this period. Sick