My maternal grandparents went to the 1939 World's Fair in New York City, according to the journal my grandmother kept during those years. I recently found a couple of postcards, unwritten, that may have been keepsakes from that stay.
One them is for the Chesterfield Hotel, a Midtown establishment that was in existence from the 1920s through the 1960s:
According to Ephemeral New York, it was an "unspectacular midcentury tourist and show folk favorite." They have a few details on minor events that happened there. It was 18 stories, with 600 "outside" rooms (I guess that means rooms with windows, because there were 900 rooms in total).
Copies of this postcard or one very much like it are available for sale online for a few dollars.
The other postcard is for a Chinese restaurant that is lost to the mists of time as far as the Interweb is concerned:
However, its address at 30 Pell Street in China Town is still the site of a Chinese restaurant, and sure enough, Street View shows us that the building is still the same with a different coat of paint, and there is still a vertical sign in place, though it's now in Chinese:
The current restaurant's name is House of Joy. Whether it is, as the back of the postcard says, a "Modern Chinese Restaurant... Serving Real Cantonese Dinners at Popular Prices," I cannot say.
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