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   jimmygeldburg@gmail.com to Peter T. Daniels   
   Re: Nice old footage   
   17 Mar 15 14:31:53   
   
   Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
   > And I _think_ the Hippodrome was at 49th and Eighth (where the ugly pink   
   > skyscraper went up -- it was a parking lot for my entire youth), making   
   > it unlikely that a picture of it was made in the same session as a picture   
   > of the Library.   
      
   6th between 43rd and 44th.  The site was a vacant lot (and maybe a parking   
   lot) from 1939 to 1952, when an office building with a parking garage was   
   built.  http://goo.gl/maps/Cc2jJ   
      
   49th and 8th was Madison Square Garden III.   
      
   Jimmy   
      
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