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The Times Square ball was once a 5-foot creation of iron and wood. Now, it measures 12 feet in diameter and is lit by more than 30,000 LEDs. Photos show how the Times Square ball has evolved over ...
A large crowd in Times Square, New York City celebrating the surrender of Germany, May 7th, 1945. ... The last photo ever of Nikola Tesla. Taken on the 1 January 1943, 6 days before his death at ...
Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building, now One Times Square. [10] It is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop, which began on December 31, 1907, and continues to attract over a million visitors to Times Square every ...
V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" Alfred Eisenstaedt signing a copy of his famous V-J Day in Times Square photograph during the afternoon of August 23, 1995, while sitting in his Menemsha ...
V-J Day in Times Square: 14 August 1945 Alfred Eisenstaedt (pictured: same event taken by Victor Jorgensen) New York City, United States 35 mm The photograph depicts a U.S. Navy sailor embracing and kissing a total stranger on Victory over Japan Day. [48] [s 3] [s 4] [s 6] Hiroshima, Three Weeks After the Bomb: 1945 George Silk: Hiroshima ...
Image credits: earspasm On October 2, 1932, The New York Herald-Tribune published an image that captured the curious eyes of millions of people. Many years later, that vintage black-and-white ...
One Times Square remained a major focal point of the area due to its annual New Year's Eve "ball drop" festivities and the introduction of a large lighted news ticker near street-level in 1928. The Times sold the building to Douglas Leigh in 1961. Allied Chemical then bought the building in 1963 and renovated it as a showroom. Alex M. Parker ...
The Times Square ball first dropped in 1904, and it came into being thanks to Jacob Starr, a Ukranian immigrant and metalworker, and the former New York Times publisher, Adolph Ochs.