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I am trying to make out if one of the storefronts is the old Blarney Stone at 795 8th Ave just to the left of the "House Of Paradise". the lettering looks like it might say Blarney Stone but its difficult to read
this is the block that now has the Social Bar (that replaced the Blarney Stone) the Olympic Diner, the Foo Ying Chinese take Out, the Int'l Smoke Shop and a dry cleaners, on the next block from Worldwide Plaza and across the street from the Hilton Garden Inn
Wrong side of the street; I think, unless 8th ave has reversed since then. It does look like it says "Blarney Stone" (and there were a lot of them), and it's definitely 8th ave, but I don't think it's where the Social is, nor 410 Eighth.
The adult theatre is the "Psychedelic Burlesk Fun House". The "House of Paradise" was later the "Eighth Avenue Leisure Spa" and then the "Eighth Avenue Health Spa". Someone must remember at least one of them.
maybe that was 8th Avenue south of the Port Authority in the W 30's but this Blarney Stone question is driving me nuts. it doesn't look like 7th Ave the marquees were bigger and flashier
this is weird. it must be very late at night because there is basically no traffic on that avenue. looks too quiet to be 42nd street and 8th avenue had lots of parking lots (see the Edison Parking on the next block). im guessing this could be 8th Avenue like around 45th-46th by those crummy old movie houses the Capri-Eros-Venus (today its the upscale Daniela Tratoria eatery)
looks like theater marquees along 7th Avenue are advertising the movie "Alien" which i think was showing in 1979. in the background are those WTC-like skyscrapers from the westward expansion of Rockefeller Center along 6th Avenue. one thing i loved was walking along 7th/Broadway in the theater district and seeing those massive skyscrapers hunkering over the seediness of 7th Avenue by Duffy Square. when you walk east of 7th Avenue toward 6th the theater area gives way to the Radio City area which is crisper, cooler and a little less crowded that the theater area. there is nothing like this part of midtown
back in 78 when crime and decay in the area was at it's highest, plans for the revitalization of TImes Sq were introduced. i remember reading an article that spoke of planning a "pedestrian mall" on broadway between 45th and 48th streets. looks like this took 30 years to happen because we have it now
but notice how much "thinner" the "X" looks back then than it does now. today its all dominated by big massive signage
these streets were "MEAN" back then
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