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1964 - Harlem, New York City - Part One

Reel Number: 221120-14

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1964

Country: USA

Location: Harlem,New York NYC

TC Begins: 12:45:49

TC Ends: 12:57:07

Duration: 00:11:18

1964 - Harlem, New York City - Part One Harlem street scenes, buildings and shopfronts. Snowy day - Exterior tower blocks. Entrance of building. Advert posters for Afro-American hair product & Alaga syrup - Black baseball player on advert. Traffic and pedestrians past building. CU address painted on door: 485 Lenox Avenue and woman coming out of building. Views tower blocks and traffic nearby - sign “Lenox Terrace - Apartments Available”. Exterior Club Baron. Street with older buildings and sign for dentist under Carolina Baptist Church with stained glass window. Exterior grocery shop, barber shop, dry cleaners, Gold moon bar. photo studio with pictures displayed in window. Ext Bethel Gospel Pentecostal Association. Large Christian church or cathedral. Sign “Religious Training Institute of ??” offering bible studies classes. Advertising poster for Schaefer featuring Miss Beaux Arts Marva Revis. Mt. Olivet Church. Jewish building or shop. Funeral director’s shop under St. Mary’s Catholic Church. “Kingfisch” locksmith shop. Wendy’s meat market - butcher’s shop. Fish & chip shop. Hairdresser’s. Barber shop. Lenox Rendez-Vous cabaret. Tower block w/ sign “131 St. Nicholas Avenue, a development of NYC Housing Authority”; bulldozer and construction work. Street corner and traffic. Citadel of Hope refuge & temple with signs re Christ. Street corner, traffic lights and cars. Shopfront with sign “WLIB - 1190 on the dial”. Hotel Theresa. Count Basie’s jazz bar w/ signs for Kenny Burrell concert. Casper? record shop with jazz LPs in window: Ethel Ennis, Wanda Jackson, Idle Fours, Lou Rawls. Roy Campanella liquor store. Big Wilt’s Smalls Paradise shop. Renaissance cinema marquee showing Jerry Lewis’ “Who’s Minding”, The Last Days of Pompei and Gunfight At Comanche Creek western - people outside movie theater. W.141 St. & 7th Avenue and tower blocks. Sign Hamilton Grange and statue Alexander Hamilton ; sign ‘Closed until further notice”. Advertising; Blacks; Negroes; African-americans; neighborhoods; motion picture theater; winter; NYC; Religion; Jazz; Nightclubs; Ethnic;

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