{"id":561,"date":"2001-09-13T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-13T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/13\/days_gone_by_in\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T00:18:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T05:18:46","slug":"days_gone_by_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/13\/days_gone_by_in\/","title":{"rendered":"Days Gone By in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Back in the summer of 1989,<\/strong> my dad gave me his old Pentax K-1000 and a few pointers, and I set out to try and capture a bit of my New York City. I took hundreds of pictures, and there would be no way to capture so many views around the city without getting a lot of the Twin Towers in there. So here are a bunch of views that no one will ever experience again:<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Those buildings would be the tallest structures in most other cities\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/oldwtc_1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Looking down at the World Financial Center from the rooftop observation deck of Tower 2. The waterfront park below was still being built at this point.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"All those gorgeous old buildings scattered around in there have probably been significantly damaged\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/oldwtc_2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Looking down at Battery Park and the mouth of the Battery Tunnel from the rooftop observation deck. This is the southern tip of Manhattan.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dizzying\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/oldwtc_3.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Looking up from underneath a light pole in the plaza beneath the WTC. From that angle, it&#8217;s almost impossible to really appreciate the scale of the two towers.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Damn high, ain't it?\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/oldwtc_4.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Looking northwest at the transmitter tower (the main transmitter array is out of the frame), west midtown, the Hudson River, and New Jersey.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Purty\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/oldwtc_5.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"560\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>View of one of my favorite old office buildings from inside the marble-lined lobby of Tower 2.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the summer of 1989, my dad gave me his old Pentax K-1000 and a few pointers, and I set out to try and capture a bit of my New York City. I took hundreds of pictures, and there would be no way to capture so many views around the city without getting a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/13\/days_gone_by_in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Days Gone By in NYC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultraphotographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76983,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/76983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}