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THROWBACK THURSDAY: GAMBLERS AND URBAN COWBOYS OF THE 1980’s
THROWBACK THURSDAY: GAMBLERS AND URBAN COWBOYS OF THE 1980’s
15 Comments
7 years ago
Argo and OTB gone?
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7 years ago
i.e., Argo naught.
7 years ago
Nice Pics , , , brings back tons of memories. Referencing from Top to Bottom:
1 st Pic is of interior of OTB on 72nd street (the one that existed between B’way and WEA)
3rd Pic is of the NE corner of 72nd Street and Columbus Ave. Picture taken from sidewalk along Chase Bank towards Dakota Bar / Columbus Gourmet Food.
6th picture is the interior of a tiny diner that existed along Amsterdam Ave. between 73/74 Street (East side of Ave), near present day Jacques Torres Chocolates.
7 years ago
was that diner next door to vinnie’s pizza? i remember vinnie’s started as a one-store wide, then expanded to two-wide — did it expand into this diner?
7 years ago
I remember it being near Vinnie’s, but can’t say for sure whether North or South of it.
7 years ago
Vinnie’s was on Amsterdam
7 years ago
I love These pictures.
they bring back so much OF THE HISTORY TO LIVE!!!!!
i love the Old Days.
Yippee!!!!!!!
7 years ago
Every time I see these photos, I look for one of me…I forgot
what I looked like in the eighties or the seventies and sixties
for that matter. Keep posting, I’ll keep looking.
7 years ago
Great pics—my father was a steady in that OTB.
7 years ago
Was the woman pictured in front of OTB wearing a hat Margarita Pracatan? She had a cable show where she sang and played the piano.
7 years ago
I think that lady in front of the OTB is Margarita Pracatan. I remember her well on a local cable station, sing and playing the piano and often saying “I Love You Baby”!! She was “Hoot”! Actually, I saw her recently walking on an UWS street, but of course she did not know me. She is someone from the past.
7 years ago
I miss this Upper West Side, so many of today’s residents would never fit in or survive in the old UWS. It was such a freaky and funky place, too bad everything was pushed out and away by the affluent “quality of life” crowd.
7 years ago
Thank you “not the real Mark”.
7 years ago
Who is the real Mark?
7 years ago
The photos of people taken by Steve Harmon are outstanding. They remind me of a more current
Family of Man.
Thank you for showing them.
Argo and OTB gone?
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i.e., Argo naught.
Nice Pics , , , brings back tons of memories. Referencing from Top to Bottom:
1 st Pic is of interior of OTB on 72nd street (the one that existed between B’way and WEA)
3rd Pic is of the NE corner of 72nd Street and Columbus Ave. Picture taken from sidewalk along Chase Bank towards Dakota Bar / Columbus Gourmet Food.
6th picture is the interior of a tiny diner that existed along Amsterdam Ave. between 73/74 Street (East side of Ave), near present day Jacques Torres Chocolates.
was that diner next door to vinnie’s pizza? i remember vinnie’s started as a one-store wide, then expanded to two-wide — did it expand into this diner?
I remember it being near Vinnie’s, but can’t say for sure whether North or South of it.
Vinnie’s was on Amsterdam
I love These pictures.
they bring back so much OF THE HISTORY TO LIVE!!!!!
i love the Old Days.
Yippee!!!!!!!
Every time I see these photos, I look for one of me…I forgot
what I looked like in the eighties or the seventies and sixties
for that matter. Keep posting, I’ll keep looking.
Great pics—my father was a steady in that OTB.
Was the woman pictured in front of OTB wearing a hat Margarita Pracatan? She had a cable show where she sang and played the piano.
I think that lady in front of the OTB is Margarita Pracatan. I remember her well on a local cable station, sing and playing the piano and often saying “I Love You Baby”!! She was “Hoot”! Actually, I saw her recently walking on an UWS street, but of course she did not know me. She is someone from the past.
I miss this Upper West Side, so many of today’s residents would never fit in or survive in the old UWS. It was such a freaky and funky place, too bad everything was pushed out and away by the affluent “quality of life” crowd.
Thank you “not the real Mark”.
Who is the real Mark?
The photos of people taken by Steve Harmon are outstanding. They remind me of a more current
Family of Man.
Thank you for showing them.