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Photos: New York City Bars In The 1930s, '40s, and '50s

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Jen Carlson

Published May 18, 2012

Modified May 18, 2012

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"Consumer services, including this cocktail lounge and bar, will be available at the Port of New York Authority's new $8,500,000 terminal building. 1952." This was in Newark Airport.

 

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Jen Carlson

Published May 18, 2012

Modified May 18, 2012

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We've looked back at how New Yorkers ate in 1938 and restaurants from the old days, but now let's travel to the bars they tied one on at. Click through for a look at bars spanning three decades: the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. They're all In New York, except for that sweet cocktail lounge in Newark Airport, which was too good not to include.

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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.

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