Tag: throwback thursday

I tried to capture it all, from Riverside Drive to Central Park West, in images from those vanished days.

A sense of place is the essence and character of a location and the emotional bonds individuals form with it.

Throwback Thursday's Steve Harmon took his favorite photo on a rainy November night in 1978 at Broadway and 72nd Street.

A few Thursdays ago, a reader commented that the photos had “so many hats!” "A theme!" I thought.

This week, Throwback Thursday shifts its focus from people to places that once lined the avenues of the Upper West Side.

I don’t know if it was their clothes, their expessions, their gestures, their postures, but I was impelled to photograph them.

This was life! There was a wonderful diversity and humanity and everyone seemed to belong.

I simply walked the streets, wherever and whenever I could, and photographed what attracted me, which was almost everything and everyone.

The stores for me were the heart, indeed, the soul of the neighborhood.

Handlebar mustaches, phone booths, and fur...things sure have changed on the Upper West Side since the 1970s and 80s.

Enjoy this look backward as the new year begins.

Not only because they aided mobility or guarded against falls, but because they were symbols of determination, resilience, and confidence.

Pleasant memories of this place or that or somewhere I ate or shopped come to mind and make me smile.

There was such a great sense of community, of pleasure in just being alive.

I hope you find something to enjoy!

He said he would work forever, because he loved flowers -- especially carnations -- and he loved his customers, who kept coming back.

I was trying to capture on film the look, the feel, the very essence of the time and place.

The streets of the UWS were awash with color and character attributable in great measure to the people who 'lived by them.'

Everyone had a unique look and character and a palpable dignity and humanity that I tried to capture with my camera.

More nostalgic images of the UWS in the 1970s and 80s by world-class photographer Stephen Harmon.