{"id":107750,"date":"2025-07-31T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107750\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:27:14","slug":"beloved-series-extended-three-more-weeks-photographers-50-favorite-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/107750\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Series Extended Three More Weeks; Photographer’s 50 Favorite Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"WSR Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> We thought it fitting to end Throwback Thursday with the photographer\u2019s favorite photos from the hundreds and hundreds that ran in the series over the past year. So we asked Stephen Harmon to send us his top picks.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many can I send?\u201d he asked via email. \u201cAs many as you want,\u201d we wrote back, thinking he\u2019d stick close to the 12-14 photos we ran each week. He sent 50! What a bonus! Instead of running them all at once or eliminating any, we\u2019ve decided to offer a three-week finale to Throwback Thursday, starting this week.<\/p>\n

TBT lives!<\/p>\n

Text and photographs by Stephen Harmon<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has been my honor and pleasure to have West Side Rag publish my photos of the Upper West Side people, streets, businesses, and storefronts that I loved from those wonderful now-vanished days of the 1970s and 80s.<\/p>\n

I thank all of you who looked at them and especially those of you who made positive and kind comments about the photos. Many people have asked me if I have favorite photos from those bygone days. Of course I loved them all and it is almost impossible to edit them down to a few, but I have tried and here they are \u2014 quite a few more than my editor expected! As always, I hope you find something to enjoy.<\/p>\n

I bid you a fond farewell and hope to see you on the streets of today\u2019s UWS. \u00a0I will have a big Nikon camera around my neck.<\/p>\n

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Next Thursday, The Finale, P<\/strong>art 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephen Harmon<\/strong>\u00a0is a longtime Upper West Sider, a retired lawyer, and a world-class photographer whose work is on display in many of the city\u2019s museums, including The Museum of the City of New York, The Brooklyn Museum, New York Historical, and The New York Public Library.<\/p>\n

Check out our audio interview with Stephen Harmon on Rag Radio \u2014\u00a0HERE.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WSR Editor\u2019s note: We thought it fitting to end Throwback Thursday with the photographer\u2019s favorite photos from the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,68925,68926,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-107750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-stephen-harmon","13":"tag-throwback-thursday","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114948319163625281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}