It's Noirsville, a visually oriented blog celebrating the vast and varied sources of inspiration, all of the resulting output, and all of the creative reflections back, of a particular style/tool of film making used in certain film/plot sequences or for a films entirety that conveyed claustrophobia, alienation, obsession, and events spiraling out of control, that came to fruition in the roughly the period of the last two and a half decades of B&W film.
Really dig the old LIC and Astoria images. Do you live in the area? You post many photos from here and since I'm a fourth generation Astoria native these images of the past are compelling.
My mother was actually born in a house that my grandfather built on a hill on the Old Bowery Bay Road. Later the new street grid placed the house on the block between 49th St. and Hazen St. East-West and between Ditmars and 21st Avenue, North-South. So it ended up on 49th St. When the put 49th Street in they cut the grade so my grandfather had to dig another basement under the original basement so the original became the first floor. I was born at Astoria General, and grew up in Astoria on 49th St.
I would love to see what other photos you have of Astoria from the past. It's funny how this was a neighbourhood that families left throughout the past 40 years and now it's become the new hot place to move to.
I also grew up near there in the early 60s- a bit past your mother's house on 77th and Ditmars and love the old Astoria images. I would love to get a copy of the old photo of the Ditmars station (before they morphed it into the N). Is it accessible anywhere?
Really dig the old LIC and Astoria images. Do you live in the area? You post many photos from here and since I'm a fourth generation Astoria native these images of the past are compelling.
ReplyDeleteMy mother was actually born in a house that my grandfather built on a hill on the Old Bowery Bay Road. Later the new street grid placed the house on the block between 49th St. and Hazen St. East-West and between Ditmars and 21st Avenue, North-South. So it ended up on 49th St. When the put 49th Street in they cut the grade so my grandfather had to dig another basement under the original basement so the original became the first floor. I was born at Astoria General, and grew up in Astoria on 49th St.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see what other photos you have of Astoria from the past.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how this was a neighbourhood that families left throughout the past 40 years and now it's become the new hot place to move to.
I'll be putting more on here, I moved to Montana in '72 and lived there for 24 years so I'll alternate between NY and the West.
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ReplyDeleteI also grew up near there in the early 60s- a bit past your mother's house on 77th and Ditmars and love the old Astoria images. I would love to get a copy of the old photo of the Ditmars station (before they morphed it into the N). Is it accessible anywhere?
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