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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Happy Birthday Grand Central Station

Grand Central Station turned 100 years old this past Friday.   Grand Central really is a magnificent piece of history and such a beautiful station.  We are fortunate that it is still around today.

A link to some information on the grand opening of Grand Central.

If these walls could really talk?

This is the era of when Grand Central first opened.  I believe this is just outside.


Look how silent it is:)  1912 Library of Congress image:



Fancy lunch here 1912! Library of Congress image:





Grand Central Station  1946:




Grand Central Station Library of Congress images 40s:








I thought the above image was so interesting that this past summer I did a blog post where I planted myself in the image because I really wanted to go on a train ride in the 40s.  Can you see me?



Can you believe in 1947, over 65 million people ( 40% of the US population) traveled the rails via Grand Central?  Amazing!

Grand Central 1946 Corbis image




I used to commute daily into the city and would go through Grand Central.  I don't get too many opportunities to get into the city lately.  









13 comments:

  1. I've traveled to Italy, France, Thailand, Germany, Amsterdam etc .. but I've never been to New York. How crazy is that?

    Monica
    www.pear-shaped-gal.com

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    1. It really is a great city to visit. I hope you can see it one day soon:)

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  2. Great pictures of Grand Station! It's a beautiful building!

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  3. I have been to Grand Centre station once, and I do hope to revisit in autumn.
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  4. What a great pictures! Those from 1912 are the most beautiful!

    xoxo,
    Monika

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  5. Have been there only 3 times, I thought it was a bit older!

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  6. OHMY!!!! Love these pics of the sensational Grand Central Station.

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  7. Grand Central Station is sooo beautiful. I heard about how Jackie Kennedy championed it's restoration, and decided I had to see it. I went there the first time I visited New York, and every time after that. I would stay at the Roosevelt Hotel so that I was just around the corner from it. Great photos of it, thanks for sharing!
    P.S. I enjoy your blog. I'm following through GFC.
    Donna
    www.prettysparklythings.blogspot.com

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    1. I haven't been inside the Roosevelt Hotel but I've passed by it many times. I need to check this place out:) Thanks for following:))

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    2. Oh also, very interesting about Jackie Kennedy being involved in the restoration. I'm glad she was or it probably would not have been a priority:)

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  8. What a wonderful ode to one of (if not "the") most famous stations in the world. I've never been to New York myself, but should the chance ever arise, I very much hope to visit Grand Central as well, stepping for a few moments in time where millions upon millions before me already have.

    ♥ Jessica

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    1. I hope you can come to NYC one day. We can meet up for tea and a long chat:)

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  9. I do hope to go to GCS sometime in the near future. My significant other is a born New Yorker and has told me on more than one occasion that we should visit or rather his true pleasure, move home.

    HRF

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