Third Avenue El Size:20" x 25" "Armed with dust rags

"Armed with dust rags

he described them as "airships resembling dragonflies" and "windmill planes

Times reporter Gay Talese compared him to Charlton Heston in a chariot-racing scene from "Ben-Hur

Mays hit 660 home runs in 22 major league seasons

"In what is intended as a man-to-man chat with the people by radio at 10 o'clock

Third Avenue El Size:20" x 25" "Armed with dust rags"With many a hoot of the whistle, a six car train of the Third Avenue elevated made a slow and sentimental progress early last evening," declared a New York Times article on May 13, 1955, as a 77 year era ended with the final run of the original "El" train. It is seen here pulling out of Chatham Square station in Chinatown, heading north. About 850 passengers were on the last train of the last New York elevated line. The train was due to leave at 6 p.