Department Store Delirium

To celebrate the launch of ASTOR PLACE VINTAGE, I’m posting this photograph of opening day outside the Siegel-Cooper department store, which happens to be the store that’s central to the story in my novel. This was 1896, when the El train ran down Sixth Avenue. This photograph from 1897 is inside Siegel-Cooper in the grocery department. These days it’s hard to imagine what a happening place department stores were at the turn...

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