Here is a picture of the Lyric (left) and the Victory (center) theaters on Manhattan's famed 42nd Street - circa 1976. Top picture from the great blog - Lost City.
And here are the same two theaters sometime in 2008...
The Lyric (left) has been renamed The Hilton Theater (it featured "Young Frankenstein" last year), and the "New Victory" (with the fancy new steps) now specializes in childrens productions. If those walls could talk, can you imagine the stories they'd tell?
This block of 42nd Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenues) was one of the only places in Manhattan that made me uncomfortable when I first moved here in the early 90's. Its seediness was overwhelming. Now? Not so much...
This block of 42nd Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenues) was one of the only places in Manhattan that made me uncomfortable when I first moved here in the early 90's. Its seediness was overwhelming. Now? Not so much...
