{"id":2706,"date":"2016-05-30T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2016-06-07T21:08:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T01:08:33","slug":"start-2016-freakin-tiquen-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/start-2016-freakin-tiquen-season\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start of the 2016 “Freakin’, Tiquen'” Season and a trip to two flea markets."},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Pier Antique Show in New York City being discontinued this year the start of our “Freakin’, Tiquen'” season was delayed until the Memorial Day weekend and a visit to two flea markets. We wanted to try something new so it was off the exotic land of Brooklyn, New York and a visit to the\u00a0Brooklyn Flea in the Fort Greene neighborhood. That was on the Saturday of the holiday weekend. The Friday before I made one of my research trips to the New York Public Library at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street. On my way to the library I passed by the American Radiator Building<\/a><\/span> (now the Bryant Park Hotel) on West 40th Street. Designed in 1924 by John Howells and Raymond Hood, in a combination Gothic and Modern style, that I would call “proto-deco”. The building was made famous by a 1927 Georgia O’Keefe painting Radiator Building-Night New York.\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n

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The American Radiator Building (Bryant Park Hotel) .<\/p><\/div>\n

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The facade of the building is in black brick to represent coal, the gold decorations are representations of parts of a radiator.<\/h4>\n

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Radiator Building-Night New York, by Georgia O’Keefe.<\/p><\/div>\n

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While waiting for the library to open, I snapped a photograph of 10 East 40th Street<\/a><\/span>. In the 1930’s the building was known as the Chase Tower. Not Chase Bank, but the showroom for the Chase Copper and Brass Company’s specialty giftwares.\u00a0The showroom was on the\u00a0top floor of the building, in the space behind the arched windows.<\/h4>\n

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The former Chase Tower at 10 East 40th Street, through an arch of the New York Public Library.<\/p><\/div>\n

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On Saturday Chris and I were meeting friends for what would be for our first visit to one of the Brooklyn Fleas, on this trip it was the Fort Greene Flea.<\/h4>\n

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