Photo Essay: How City Kids Kept Cool in 1953

Written by NYPress on July 18, 2012. Posted in NY Press Exclusive.

The blog Ephemeral New York has a photo spread from Life magazine’s photographer Peter Stackpole of kids cooling off in Nolita during the 1953 heatwave.

Looks fun ’til the cops showed up, would it fly today?

—Compiled by Alissa Fleck

Tags: 1953, black and white photography, Ephemeral New York, Life Magazine, manhattan, nolita, Peter Stackpole

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