#gottscho - schleisner

[vintage-every-day]

September 19, 1942. William S. Paley, residence in Manhasset, Long Island. Mrs. Paley's bedroom. 5x7 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

[federer7]

July 28, 1946. "Florsheim Shoes, 516 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Mirror detail. Ketchum, Gina & Sharp, Architects."

Photo by Gottscho-Schleisner

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[guy60660]

Morris Lapidus | Chrysler Building | Gottscho-Schleisner

[mudwerks]

(via Footloose: 1946 | Shorpy)

July 28, 1946. "Florsheim Shoes, 516 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Mirror detail. Ketchum, Gina & Sharp, Architects." 5x7 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A Dodge dealership at 175th St and Broadway, 1948. The building was designed by Morris Lapidus, an architect known for his flamboyance.

For information on how the artist colorized the original photo, see here.

Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner, colorized by Mike Savad, via Fine Art America

[guerrerense]

New York World's Fair (1939-40) por Tom Wigley Por Flickr: "New York World's Fair (1939-40) railroad exhibit. Historic locomotives at Court of Railways." 35mm color transparency by Gottscho-Schleisner. Via www.shorpy.com hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/gsc.5a30943

[uno-universal]

“Footloose 1946”, Gottscho-Schleisner

[mistons]

Miami Beach

Snowden Estate, 1923, looking north from 44th St & Collins Ave. Harvey S. Firestone's Harbel Villa Estate, 1930s. Fontainebleau Hotel construction, 1954. Firestone estate was used as a construction office.  

Miami History / SMU Libraries / Miami Archives / Gottscho-Schleisner collection, LOC

Fontainebleau architect Morris Lapidus: In his day, critics reviled the excesses of Lapidus’ designs, calling his architecture “the nation’s grossest national product,” “pornography of architecture,” and “boarding house baroque” ... There was a “Staircase to Nowhere” so women dressed in couture and jewels could take an elevator to the top to deposit their coats and glamorously descend the stairs to the lobby. - Fontainebleau Hotel, A Colorful History

Steve Wynn:

In 1954 a guy named Ben Novack and his brother Joe Novack, who had  experience in the Catskills at a hotel called Laurel, and in Miami Beach at the Sans Souci Hotel - sort of like Las Vegas with bunch of hotels lined up one next to the other on Collins Avenue - got an option on the Firestone estate at 41st St. on Collins Ave., a big 15-acre oceanfront piece that was owned by the famous family that made tires.

Ben Novack and Joe Novack conceived with an architect named Morris Lapidus of a hotel called Fontainebleau. This place was going to be a new idea. The hotel itself was going to be a series of experiential moments that included formal French gardens, sort of a Jewish version of Versailles; a gorgeous, soaring, high ceiling lobby; a lot of curvilinear spaces and curved stairways; murals on the wall of 18th century France; a fabulous showroom; a shopping arcade below; beyond the garden an expansive Cabana and pool club; a beautiful spa; and a curved building with blue glass. The Fontainebleau was going to set a new standard of destination resorts on planet Earth. It was so breakaway, so profoundly new it didn't even add a name on it. No sign, just the building.

It opened in 1954 and it changed everything people came from France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil. Between Christmas and Easter you had to know somebody to get a room. Everybody from Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis worked there. It was the coolest place to be in America during high season. The Fontainebleau dwarfed in scale and imagination anything that had ever been done anywhere in Europe or America, and it was received that way.  

Jay Sarno was a character from Atlanta. He saw the Fontainebleau. He saw that this place was in the literary sense romantic, better than the outside world. It was a universe utopia within itself. Sarno never got over it

I was going to school at the University of Pennsylvania. My folks had Cabana 364 on an annual basis. I’d come there at Christmastime, and I never got over it. To me it seemed like the greatest thing in the world is to create a place that would transport people that way.

[heracliteanfire]

July 28, 1946. "Florsheim Shoes, 516 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Ketchum, Gina & Sharp, Architects." 5x7 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. (via Shorpy)

[eclecticharmonytimemachine]

Nov. 12, 1957. "Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, East 89th Street & Fifth Avenue, New York. Under construction II. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect." Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

[worldsandemanations]

Architect Morris Lapidus, Chrysler Building. Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner, 1939

[vintage-every-day]

June 8, 1950: Fields department store, business at 37th Avenue and 82nd Street, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. By Gottscho-Schleisner.

[federer7]

April 7, 1932. New York city views. Radio City from the Goelet Building." The beginnings of the RCA Building ("30 Rock"), with the almost-completed RKO Building as backdrop, amid the Midtown Manhattan construction project, known early on as Radio City, that would become Rockefeller Center.

Photo by Gottscho-Schleisner

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[mudwerks]

(via The Perisphere: 1939 | Shorpy)

"Perisphere and ramp at 1939 New York Word's Fair." Corpulent counterpoint to the trimmer Trylon. Uncredited acetate transparency, possibly by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Sunday at Orchard Beach, the Bronx, 1938.

Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. via MCNY

[gacougnol]

Gottscho - Schleisner

Tall, Dark & Handsome

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