NYPress.com - New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more » 1953 http://nypress.com New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:53:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Photo Essay: How City Kids Kept Cool in 1953 http://nypress.com/photo-essay-how-city-kids-kept-cool-in-1953/ http://nypress.com/photo-essay-how-city-kids-kept-cool-in-1953/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:24:34 +0000 NYPress http://nypress.com/?p=51411 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

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