#sidewalks of new york 1931

[silencervalkyrie]

Sidewalks of New York 1931

@genericswordsmaiden I tried to DM you but Tumblr gave me an error so I'm posting the link here, also in case anyone else wants it ^^ the film is bigger than 2gb which is the limit for wetransfer (it works like mediafire or mega with the difference that the files expire after a few days) so I just uploaded it to mega instead.

I have a bunch more of Buster Keaton's talkies in my pc so if there is any other film you haven't been able to find and I happen to have it as well, tell me and I'll send it to you too! ✨✨

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton and Anita Page Sidewalks of New York - 1931

[busterkeatonsociety]

#SaturdayCaptions Caption this pic of Buttster Keister…Buster Keaton & Cliff Edwards on the set of “Sidewalks of New York,” 1931…and keep it family friendly!

[cesontlesfemmes]

Buster Keaton et Anita Page dans Sidewalks of New York, 1931

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Anita Page (Our Dancing Daughters, The Broadway Melody, Our Modern Maidens)— She's as stunning as you'd expect someone once dubbed "The Girl With The Most Beautiful Face In Hollywood" to be, but what makes her stand out for me is the sweetness of her features. She comes across as very genuine.

Jean Arthur (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Easy Living, The Talk of the Town)—Always found the best facial expression and the perfect line delivery, so nailed the transition from silent film to talkies (her voice is CRAZY btw- high and overly sweet but also so gravelly she's like a breakfast parfait), then went on to dominate roles in multiple genres well into her 50s. Such a great personality both onscreen and off, and to our end pulls off 'gorgeous,' 'sexy,' and 'cute' all at once (in a word: hot!)

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Anita Page:

Linked gif: https://www.tumblr.com/mtonino/705233953976713216/sidewalks-of-new-york-1931-zion-myers-jules?source=share

Linked gif 2: https://www.tumblr.com/mydailyvintagephotos/691699343097511936/remembering-anita-page-on-her-birthday?source=share

Jean Arthur:

i had to submit every movie of hers ive seen so far because 1) shes GORGEOUS. 2) extremely gifted with comic timing and delivery and whats better than a confident beautiful woman that makes you laugh. and 3) seems to effortlessly blend wit emotion and logic in her performances in a way that sometimes is just so... it tells you as much about the other characters shes interacting with as it does her own (see this clip from mr smith)

Adorable and sultry with a voice that went from urban smartass to sounding, as director Frank Capra described it, more like tinkling bells than a voice has a right to sound

jean arthur wearing bucksin trousers and a little hat in the plainsman was fully my queer awakening. i love that woman so much. she has defined calamity jane for me. also she is adorable and heartbreaking and SMOKING HOT in deeds like everyone needs to experience her, she's everything to me

She's a chameleon, rocking any hair colour and any style, any mood and any genre. And she's got such a fine, captivating smile!

Truly amazing talking voice, like eating pop candy. Played wise cracking gals with hearts of gold. Once got arrested for trespassing because she went to console a dog that was being mistreated. Angel. Star. Baby. Winner!

[citizenscreen]

Buster Keaton and Anita Page in SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK (1931)

[justbusterkeaton]

The High Sign (1920)

The General (1926)

Sidewalks of New York (1931)

[bobbyhasstardust]

Buster Keaton in Sidewalks of New York (1931)

I don’t know what these boop things are but I love sending them to my favorite accounts on here :///)

[mtonino]

Sidewalks of New York (1931) Zion Myers, Jules White

[kindnpolite]

JULIAN WRIGHT ✦ THIRTY-6 ✦ THE PIEMAKER

❝ Never be so polite, you forget your power . . . Never wield such power, you forget to be polite . ❞

🥧 .*·。ﾟ ━ ( lee pace / cis man / he/him ) i think i just saw JULIAN WRIGHT  on the subway.  the THIRTY-SIX year old CAFE OWNER has been living on cornelia street for SIX YEARS. Julian’s friends know him to be helpful, honest, & witty  , but he has a reputation on cornelia street for being naive, gullible & self conscious. when i see first name , i can’t help but think of  smell of fresh baked bread in the morning, nervous laughter, and writing uncomfortable news in cake icing !  in  fact , i sometimes i think i hear MARJORIE, THE LAKES, TIS THE DAMN SEASON 

NAME: Julian Alexander Wright.

FACECLAIM: Lee Pace

PRONOUNS : He/Him

GENDER: Cis-Man

AGE: Thirty-six

ORIENTATION: Homosexual. The one thing about being in a small town that Julian doesn’t miss is the small town gossip. It’s partly the reason he began to feel more comfortable staying in New York where he was able to explore his sexuality without judgement or fear. Since growing up though, he’s accepted that side of himself though he still tends to keep it on a need to know basis.

HOMETOWN: Grand Rapids, MI

OCCUPATION: Owner and operator of Marjorie’s. Marjorie’s – the local cafe & bakery open since 1931. Made from the freshest local ingredients you can find bread, cake, and pies baked to order. Don’t forget to grab a jar of their famous Marjorie’s marmalade!

BIOGRAPHY

There’s a saying, that New Yorkers are born all over the world. However for Julian, he had always felt like he was misplaced. New York is full of constant noise and people always in a rush to get where they’re going. For a young Julian, a kid with big eyes and fragile feelings, he felt like grass trying to grow through the cracks in the sidewalk cement. He had always been a quite, skittish, and awkward but always well meaning. Seemingly too soft, his parents would send him to spend the summers with his grandmother Marjorie where he was initially overwhelmed by all the hustle and bustle of the city. However, despite his initial reluctance, he grew to love those summers.He would help her at her bakery, reading a book as he worked the counter. Meanwhile his grandmother greeted every customer by name with a smile and light conversation, and little Julian wondered how she made it look so easy.

He learned that in New York, he could be anyone he wanted to be. No one knew how bitterly uncool he was back home, how he struggled to make small talk and spent his afternoons browsing internet forums. Julian was the mysterious out of town-er, coming and going like a summer breeze. It was nice to see people get excited about his return to the neighborhood, hearing his name yelled out with enthusiasm turning a corner in the grocery aisle. Once he got older, he had come into his own, growing into his long limbs and found people who seemed to like him for who he was. Slowly his visits became less frequent, and the summer loves became a distant memory. Nothing more than a random social media like every couple of months and a quick facetime call to his grandmother once a guilty reminder flashed on his phone.

However, when Marjorie got sick, Julian had taken it upon himself to become her caregiver. So he put law school on pause to help keep her cafe running. While it seemed like an insane concept to his friends, to Julian it was a no brainer. Besides, it would be just like those summers oh-so long ago, right? It turns out, seeing how things work from above the counter, baking is a lot more technical than he had thought. Though it proved to be much more fulfilling than studying at his prestigious Ivy League graduate school. Every day he was able to see the way a customer’s face would light up at the first bite of their morning bagel or the love in a young couple’s eyes as they picked out their wedding cake, it actually made him excited to get up in the morning even during the cold months when he was warm and comfortable wrapped up in his comforter.

Unfortunately, those idyllic mornings of preparing the shop wouldn’t last as long as Julian would have liked -- When Marjorie passed away, Julian was utterly distraught. It was like he became a shell of himself and it look him weeks to even set foot into the cafe which she had left to him. It came with a heavy heart when he put up the bakery for sale, but he didn’t know if he would ever enter Marjorie’s without breaking into tears. It was only when a little girl approached him at the farmer’s market asking if he would open to in time to make her birthday cake that he realized that he wasn’t ready to give up on the legacy his grandmother created in the town. It was that moment that he decided that he couldn’t just leave. So he took down the For Sale sign and put on the apron, making his residence permanent. While it has been an overwhelming experience, he realizes it was the community that made it worth it. Even when the days are hard, it’s the smile in people’s faces that he feels his grandmother’s warmth still with him.

[ultraheydudemestuff]

Cleveland Mall           

Lakeside Ave. E.

Cleveland, OH 44114

The Cleveland Mall, a roughly T-shaped mall area between E. 9th and W. 3rd Sts., is a landscaped public park in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. One of the most complete examples of City Beautiful design in the United States, the park is a historic site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  The Mall was conceived as part of the 1903 Group Plan by Daniel Burnham, John Carrère, and Arnold Brunner as a vast public space flanked by the city's major civic and governmental buildings, all built in the neoclassical style. Many of those buildings were built over the following three decades, including the Metzenbaum Courthouse (1910), Cuyahoga County Courthouse (1912), Cleveland City Hall (1916), Public Auditorium (1922), the Cleveland Public Library main building (1925), and the Cleveland Public Schools Board of Education building (1931). Other buildings include Key Tower, the Global Center for Health Innovation, the Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

     In the spirit of the City Beautiful movement, formerly seedy areas were transformed into a "magnificent civic center," which was supposed to be crowned by the Union Terminal at the north end of the mall, on the shores of Lake Erie. However, the location of the station was eventually moved south and west, to Public Square, where it was finally born as the Terminal Tower.  Even though the plan was never fully carried out, it was one of the few City Beautiful plans to be realized to a large extent, and remains one of the most complete examples in the country. The Mall is divided into three sections, known as Malls A, B, and C. Mall A, the southernmost, is officially named Veterans' Memorial Plaza, and Mall C was dedicated as Strawbridge Plaza in 2003. The Memorial Plaza, between Rockwell and St. Clair Avenues, is the site of Marshall Fredericks' Fountain of Eternal Life, also known as the War Memorial Fountain. The Cleveland Convention Center was built underneath Malls B and C in 1964.  The Mall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 10, 1975.

   Cleveland Public Art sponsored a series of temporary public art installations on Mall B. In 2004, New York artist Brian Tolle installed For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. The work featured eight nine-foot-tall styrofoam neoclassical urns standing atop pedestals, warped to reflect actual wind data collected from Lake Erie. The sculptures were taken down in 2006. In May 2008, Peter North and Alissa North of North Design Office in Toronto installed a work titled The Verdant Walk. It featured plantings of native grasses and seven fabric-covered sculptures. The sculptures were illuminated at night via a solar-powered LED system. They remained in place until 2010.

     In 2010 the county purchased the underground convention center from the city as part of a project to completely rebuild it in conjunction with constructing the Global Center for Health Innovation and the Hilton Cleveland Downtown Hotel on the former site of the Cuyahoga County Administration Building across from Mall B. After the reconstruction of the Mall, Stephen Manka's sculpture City of Light was installed on Mall B. The illuminated steel sculpture was created for the 2013 National Senior Games. Manka described it as intended to "simulate the flames of the classic games with a wash of programmable light" and "part petal of a flower, part heavy duty turbine."  The new Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland opened in 2013 and has underground connections to Public Auditorium and the Global Center for Health Innovation. The Hilton officially opened in June 2016. Mall B and Mall C reopened after construction as predominantly grassy areas, with Mall B reaching 27 feet above sidewalk level over the entrance to the Cleveland Convention Center along Lakeside Avenue.

[friendlessghoul]

Buster Keaton, Cliff Edwards, and Anita Page Sidewalks of New York - 1931

[busterkeatonsociety]

Buster Keaton and Anita Page, promotional photos for Sidewalks of New York (1931)

[quotesfrommyreading]

We’re living through the birth of a new species of skyscraper that not even architects and engineers saw coming. After 9/11, experts concluded that skyscrapers were finished. Tall buildings that were in the works got scaled down or canceled on the assumption that soaring towers were too risky to be built or occupied. “There were all sorts of symposiums and public statements that we’re never going to build tall again,” one former architect told The Guardian in 2021. “All we’ve done in the 20 years since is build even taller.”

There are skyscrapers, and then there are supertalls, often defined as buildings more than 300 meters in height, but better known as the cloud-puncturing sci-fi towers that look like digital renderings, even when you’re staring at them from the sidewalk. First supertalls were impossible, then a rarity. Now they’re all over the place. In 2019 alone, developers added more supertalls than had existed prior to the year 2000; there are now a couple hundred worldwide, including Dubai’s 163-story Burj Khalifa (a hypodermic needle aimed at space), Tianjin’s 97-floor CTF Finance Centre (reminiscent of a drill bit boring the clouds), and, encroaching on my sky, Manhattan’s 84-floor Steinway Tower (a luxury condominium resembling the love child of a dustbuster and a Mach3 razor).

Some supertalls have an even more futuristic designation: superslim. These buildings are alternately described as “needle towers” or “toothpick skyscrapers” (though not every superslim is a supertall). Early superslims shot up in Hong Kong in the 1970s, though lately they’ve become synonymous with New York City; four supertall superslims loom over the southern end of Central Park in a stretch of Midtown dubbed “Billionaires’ Row.” Building engineers, like judgy modeling agents, have varying definitions of superslim, but they usually agree that such buildings must have a height-to-width ratio of at least 10 to 1. To put that in perspective, the Empire State Building (one of the world’s first supertalls, completed in 1931) is about three times taller than it is wide—“pudgy,” as one engineer described it to me. Steinway Tower is 24 times taller than it is wide—nearly as slim as a No. 2 pencil, and the skinniest supertall in the world. (The developer’s official name for the building is 111 West 57th Street.) These superslim buildings—and supertalls generally—have relied on engineering breakthroughs to combat the perilous physics that go with height. A 2021 article in the journal Civil Engineering and Architecture declared: “There is no doubt that super-tall, slender buildings are the most technologically advanced constructions in the world.”

  —  The Marvels—And Mistakes—Of Supertall Skyscrapers

[busterverse]

Why am I always posting photos of Buster from movies I haven’t yet seen?

(Possibly because cute?)

THOROUGHLY BAFFLED THURSDAY

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Sidewalks of New York (Zion Myers & Jules White, 1931)