Times Square night time signs and attractions in New York City. Lighted advertisements read 'Pepsodent toothpaste' , 'Chevrolet priced low'. Many lighted neon advertising signs on the streets of New York City. Cohen Theater, a garment shop building. Cabaret Follies with marquee that reads 'New Amsterdam glorifying the American girl'. America's Paradise restaurant reads 'World's most beautiful girls'. The Cotton Club in New York. A sign reads 'Hollywood Restaurant'. High society couples entering a club. Couples move out of their cars. Above the heads of the patrons, a large group of women, in swim suits, swing in synchronization on trapeze swings during a show.
Scenes of New York City night clubs, during the "Roaring 20's," beginning with the relatively sedate Versailles Club, on 50th Street, where Rudy Vallee and his musical group play for patrons dancing. Rudy Vallee is seen playing the saxophone. He was so popular, the club was renamed 'Villa Vallee'. Wealthy businessmen gathered at the night club. The views then shift rapidly, in a montage of scenes showing people at party, flappers, and increasingly wilder antics in night club and speakeasy locations throughout New York City. Champagne bottle being opened. (This was illegal. National prohibition was still in force.) A singer performs. A man smoking a cigar. An artist plays his trumpet. A band of musicians perform. A couple waves their hands at the performance. A girl artist performs a dance. A scantily clad girl comes from behind stage curtains and performs in a burlesque show. Girls perform dance in a follies type act and balloons thrown up in the air. Fast montage of wild partying and raucous behavior with streamers and balloons flying.
Depiction of the New York Stock Exchange crash of 1929 in New York City. American traders at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. People trading at the exchange market. A man talks on a telephone. Many people gathered on the floor of NYSE. People discuss, crowd, and shout out orders. People sell their shares. Frenzied selling of shares. Ticker tape machines spitting out sell orders. Traders yelling orders to other traders. Telephone switchboard operators frantically taking orders. A note reads 'Sell 3000 M' , 'Sell 800 GE' , 'Sell 1000 RCA', 'Sell 1000 M' , 'Sell 1000 A', 'Sell 500 EBS' and 'Sell 2000 CN'. The stock market crashes. Stock ticker tape and papers scattered all over the floor of the exchange on Wall Street.
Boys throw snow balls at other boys on sleds in Central Park,New York City, United States. A group of smiling children play in the snow. They throw snow balls. A few other children on sleds. The children on the other side throw snow balls at the children riding sleds in the park. (Edison Company, 1898)
Close view of Battleship, USS Oregon (BB-03) with officers and crew seen on deck in dress whites, during Spanish American War Victory Fleet Review on the Hudson River, New York City, August 20, 1898. Another ship in the parade is seen in the background, behind the Oregon. ( Edison Company, 1898)
Children, in swim suits, play at a pool in in Sutro Baths, San Francisco, California. They slide down a long slide on the north side of the baths, into the water. Children play and jump into the pool. Some dive from spring boards. (Edison Company, Sutro Baths No. 1, 1897)
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