#chess in the park

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Men playing chess in Central Park, 1948.

Photo: Slim Aarons via Getty Images

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

He Thought My GRANDMASTER Mom Was A Beginner In Chess...

[colonellickburger]

Gordon Parks. Chorus girls playing backstage at the Latin Quarter nightclub on West 48th Street, just off Times Square in New York City, 1958

[blondebrainpowered]

Showgirls play chess between shows at New York’s Latin Quarter Nightclub, 1958.

Photographer: Gordon Parks

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

If you were to sit me down and tell me about a show where there are two characters, one embodies science, the other politics, and they are ideologically opposed, but both their ideologies have been shaped and defined by their upbringing and then you proceed to tell me that the politician wants to militarise the scientist's work but eventually tries to protect it from being militarised going against their own family to do so, then you tell me that they both end up being revealed as/turned into mages, one artificial and one natural and they have matching beauty marks on their faces and the artificial one in an attempt to unify and equalise the world that is riddled with poverty and segregation btw tries to turn everybody into magical robots that have the other mage's colour scheme...

I would say... okay and when do they kiss??

And then you break it to me that they don't even have a one on one conversation ever.

I would combust into flames.

[jess-the-vampire]

can i ask very politely for some huntlow?? :3

i'll do you one better~

have a pile of them, au and canon, on the house

[henk-heijmans]

Washington Square Park, New York City, ca. 1960 - by Erika Stone (1924), American

[glitchy-npc]

Chen has no idea he's been stickered...but you simply don't insult the Halloween stickers in the holy month of October. He should know better.

[gotyouanyway]

take my pawn with your knight bitch i’ll have sex with it

[roseofithaca]

Robin, in the 1600s:

Mary, in Present Day:

[piplicious]

dad duties include going easy on your kids .. intentionally or unintentionally

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Chess players in Washington Square Park, ca. 1955.

Photo: Weegee via Heritage Auctions

[perseyhandmaiden]

Annie takes a jaunt over to Magnolia Blossom Park to mingle.

That is one intense stare-down for someone who just learned what a pawn does.

To explore the Park Go to Page (101) To leave and hang out with Mortimer Go to Page (112)

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[arinewman7]

Two Old-Timers Playing Chess on a Central Park Bench in New York City, May 1946.

Photo: National Archives