New York City bus stop, 1949

[Ptah]

Postcards from old New York

[Newest Reality]

1. Was this before

happiness and smiling were invented?

[targetpractice]

13. Well, before iPhones...

So, the only option was to stare off into space and contemplate their lot in life.

[Polybius]

26. Well, there were no cell phones

So I can only imagine the boredom.

[DonaldsRump]

3. Wrong date...it was November 9, 2016

The date that the Idiot "won" the "election."

I pretty much looked this way myself.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

25. A day so bleak.....

that photo is actually in true color.......

[Dagstead Bumwood]

4. Well, they are about to ride on a city bus.

Seems like they have just the right amount of enthusiasm

[Ptah]

5. I think the third from the left is Fran Kubelik.

[Dagstead Bumwood]

7. I want to know what happened after Steve hung up on the pregnant lady.

Not cool, Steve.

[jberryhill]

11. You have to see the movie

[Dagstead Bumwood]

12. It certainly sounds intriguing.

A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.

Director: Mitchell Leisen
Writers: Sally Benson (screenplay), Catherine Turney (screenplay)
Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl

[jberryhill]

14. Her ex is "devious"

Sounds like she’s plenty devious on her own.

[jberryhill]

6. That ad is interesting

[Ptah]

8. Call Pennsylvania 6-5000

[jberryhill]

10. This is it

“No Man of Her Own” with Barbara Stanwyck.

[Harker]

21. If Barbara Stanwyck is in it

I'm on it.

[Doc_Technical]

15. They know that the bus they're waiting for,

is being driven by Ralph Kramden.

[Golden Raisin]

16. Waiting for a bus --- and each one either holding

or wearing gloves, as many young ladies did back then.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. I have vague knowledge of women wearing hats and gloves

from the picture it seems gloves were more de rigueur than hats at the time.

[elleng]

18. I never wear hats, but did wear gloves when taking Chicago bus to and from my first job

after college; messy newsprint better on the gloves than my fingers, as had to begin work with clean hands! (as 'legal secretary.')

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. oh yeah...the ink on newspapers problem

It's coming back to me.

Back then....the '50's/early 60's era...I now recall that women who did not wear hats except to semi-serious events, would wear head scarves when running around in town. But always girdles, and garter belts to hold up nylons.

That thing about women covering their heads lasted for hundreds of years, even among my atheist clan.

[elleng]

24. Don't know whether my family's women wore hats.

Did have a working aunt (in NYC,) she may have.

I wore 'rain scarves' when necessary.

[NBachers]

20. My grandma worked in the women's glove department of a tony department store during this era.

[malthaussen]

22. "Last night I spent my last nickel to call Steve..."

...nobody under about 40 is going to know what the hell she's talking about.

-- Mal