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Fun & Games

Little kids playing with the "pagoda" telephones lining the side of the street.

Pagoda-topped phone booths with children

Bayard Street

1979

Children hula-hooping outside of Confucius Plaza

1977

A large group of onlookers watching kids hula hoop in Confucius Square.
A group of 7 young women goofing around and posing on a stoop.

Girls on a stoop (possibly Bayard Street)

Date unknown

Boys horsing around at Columbus Park

1977

Three boys messing around in front of Columbus Square. One of them has been put into a wire garbage can.
5 young men along the side of the road posing with their road bikes.

Boys with bikes outside 51 Mott Street

Date unknown

Children at Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, 65 Bayard Street

1978

Two little kids leaving a Chinese ice cream store with full, hand-dipped ice cream cones.
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This exhibition has been made possible in part by The David Berg Foundation’s creation and support of The David Berg Rare Book Room, a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, a Humanities New York CARES grant, and a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources, a grant program made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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