![]() In 1971 it was playing in the Criterion Theatre, which had opened back in 1936 at 1514 Broadway between West 44th and 45th Street. ![]() Willard, in which a maniac controls an army of rats to do his bidding and kill his enemies, was tearing up box office lists. ![]() The top grossing movies? A Clockwork Orange and Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, which no doubt had different audiences. Audiences were chortling to the wit and wisdom of Archie Bunker, as All in the Family grabbed the top TV ratings spot in 1971-1972, an era when My Three Sons and The Brady Bunch were going strong (what would a crossover plot involving the characters of those three shows been like?). John Lindsay was amid his second term as NYC mayor. Richard Nixon was preparing to run for a second term. The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Baltimore Orioles, who were in the World Series for the 3rd straight year the next year, the Oakland A’s would begin a run of 3 straight Series, which they would three-peat. It’s the year I graduated grade school, St. Vanishing NY had the same idea in 2013, but I have different photos.ġ971 is a distant time now. What I’ll do is present them and try to drill down the details as much as possible in a Forgotten NY style. He was visiting Halifax, NS to visit relatives, and stopped off in NYC for a few days. I stumbled across some photos online that were taken by a visiting photographer from Germany, Hans Joachim Jacobi, using an Exakta Varex IIa, an East-German camera. I’ve been saying I want to do shorter pieces for the Sunday feature, and I’m putting that into practice this week.
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