The Variety Theatre

"The Variety Theatre once stood at 110 3rd Avenue Manhattan New York. It was designed by architect Louis Sheinart in 1914 and was remodeled in 1930 by the firm of Boak & Paris who also renovated the New...

On the Road with Jack Kerouac

I wasn't impressed with Jack Kerouac's writings especially after my english professor gave me a copy of "On The Road" to read. Professor Davis had previously given me a copy of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Slaughterhouse...

The Warriors & Union Square Station

"The Warriors" 1979, was a film based on a Coney Island oriented street gang who made their last valiant stand in the 14th Street Union Square Subway Station. Though earlier they did defeat the Baseball Furies off...

The Del-Vikings today

The Del-Vikings is an American doo-wop musical group who recorded several hit singles in the 1950s and continued to record and tour with various lineups in later decades. The group was notable for being one of the...

Where have you been Joe DiMaggio?

Joe DiMaggio hated publicity and especially Hollywood avoiding movie sets but since his wife Marilyn Monroe was filming in New York he remained close by at a nearby bar where he ran into a friend named Walter...

Ebbets Field today

Ebbets Field was the baseball stadium of the former Brooklyn Dodgers before they moved to California and became the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was bounded by Bedford Avenue, Sullivan Place, McKeever Place, and...

A Pictorial View of The Polo Grounds Today

The Polo Grounds was the name given to four different stadiums in upper Manhattan used from 1880 until 1963. The first stadium was bounded south and north by 110th & 112th street and east and west by 5th &...

"Train in Vain" by Ace Preston Washington D.C.

Washington D.C's Train in Vain.. no bells..no whistles. As I stood photographing the site earlier yesterday I recalled several other train wrecks. Did it resemble the June 4, 2003 train crash in southeastern Spain...

"Thailand's Death Hotels, David Carradine, & The Wrath of God"

(from Ace Preston's "Adventures in Southeast Asia" series continued..) Thailand I was once told meant "land of smiles" but I prefer to call it by it's old name of Siam just as I call Myanmar Burmur. Could you...

"Border of Burma or is it Myanmar?"

DEVELOPING STORY.. "Adventures in Southeast Asia" by Ace Preston On May 26, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama pressured Burma’s ruling junta into requesting them to release opposition leader Aung San Suu...

"Fear not North Korea"

Why should I sit around and worry about North Korea's nuclear program..eventually in the future all nations will possess nuclear weapons. That is what being equal is all about. With the "New America" we no...

"Is Nothing Sacred?" exempts from A.P.'s "Vanishing NY" series

If there is anything more important to me than life itself it is the preservation of the past. No matter how horrible, how painful, the past must be preserved in order that we may study it or as the saying goes...

"Has Hard Times Fallen on Calvin Klein?"

The mansion owned by Calvin Klein known as "Dragon Head" located on the dune roads of Southampton New York has been approved for demolition.  The oceanfront mansion is 50,000 square feet and sits on 11 acres of a...

"Whatever became of the Iceberg that sunk the RMS Titanic?"

There were many theories to what became of the iceberg which collided with the Titanic. One speculation stated by a scientist at the jet propulsion lab was that the hit the iceburg sustained by the Titanic sent it...

"A Part of Hiroshima in New York" by Ace Preston

There were no newspaper reports in Hiroshima from August 7-8, 1945 because of the atomic bomb.  "The Hiroshima Tokuho" published August 6, 1980 reflected on the news collected by 3 reporters and a cameraman who...