Flashback Friday: Kane Manufacturing in 1961

We dusted off our 1960s-era photo album to share this great vintage snapshot of Kane Manufacturing's trade show display with our readers.

Marvin Goldman, former Owner of Kane Manufacturing and Vice President of Sales, is pictured on the left.  Goldman and close friend, the late Richard Singer, purchased Kane Manufacturing Corporation in 1959 and operated the metal fabrication company until it was purchased by current ownership in 1988.  

Kane Manufacturing was founded in 1890.

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PHOTO: Famous Architects Dressed as Their Buildings (1931)

Roughly two dozen famous architects came dressed as the buildings they designed to 1931's Beaux-Arts Ball in Manhattan.  Below are just seven of them. 

In a 2006 article about the event (A New Age of Architecture Ushered in Financial Gloom) published by New York Times writer Christopher Gray, William Van Alen's ornate "Chrysler Building" costume is described in vivid detail:

Indeed, his cloak was designed to emulate the design of the doors, and two shoulder ornaments replicated the eagle heads at the 61st-floor setbacks. On his head rose a strikingly dangerous-looking crown, the graduated layers of the Chrysler tower itself rising to a spire, the ensemble at least four feet above his scalp.

Can you guess the other buildings (and their designers)?  Answers are listed under the photo.

Photo: Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect by Jewel Stern and John A. Stewart