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5 days ago · The earliest efforts to have the streets of New York illuminated began in 1697, when the Common Council of New York ordered homes to place lights in front of the windows facing the streets,...
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1 day ago · The first recorded theatre to go fully gaslit, in 1816, was Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. In 1836, a variation on the use of gas to create a new form of theatrical lighting quite ...
5 days ago · New York City’s first ornamental street lamps were installed in September 1892 on Fifth Avenue between Washington Square Park and 59th Street and the Edison Illuminating Company provided the...
5 days ago · But already by 1960, The New York Times was describing 42nd Street as “the worst block in town.” The Victory Theater was the first porn theater on 42nd Street.
5 days ago · The 1920s marked the golden age of neon. Cities like New York and Los Angeles began to embrace neon signage, using it to draw customers and enhance their urban landscapes. The vibrant colors and dynamic shapes became synonymous with modernity and innovation. 2.2 The Golden Age of Neon (1940s-1960s)
4 days ago · The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
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4 days ago · Abstract Expressionism had a great impact on both the American and European art scenes during the 1950s. Indeed, the movement marked the shift of the creative center of modern painting from Paris to New York City in the postwar decades. In the course of the 1950s, the movement’s younger followers increasingly followed the lead of the color ...