Manhattan, Circa 1969

Here's a sampling of New York snapshots circa 1969 from the family archives of my friend Christopher, who calls them "banal in the fullest tourist sense." He loves them just the same, and I do too. As awkward as some of them are -- it isn't always clear who or what the intended subject was -- they are vivid little slices of a familiar but long gone New York through the eyes of regular Middle Americans. They were taken by his grandparents.