Laurence Salzmann is a native of Philadelphia who has worked as a photographer/ filmmaker since the early 1960's. His projects document the lives of little known groups in America and abroad. He looks at the lives of people ranging from occupants of single room occupancy hotels in New York City to transhumant shepherds in Transylvania, residents of Mexican villages, and Philadelphia Mummers. He's also the founder of Blue Flower Press.
Blue Flower's name comes from a non-existent blue flower first mentioned by the 19th Century German writer and poet Novalis in his unfinished novel, "Heinrich von Ofterdingen". This non-existent flower became for the German Romanticists a symbol of the unattainable and unending quest for perfection.
Blue Flower Press will continue to strive for perfection in all works published and distributed by Blue Flower. We welcome you to our KZread and web-sites and hope that you will one day find the Blue Flower.
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Hopefully one day when zionists stop feeding and supporting islam we normal people will reunite with our fellow jewish turks .
Buyuk insan , umarim 100 sene sonra ne kadar guzel birisi oldugun hatirlanacak ,
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Descansen en paz, 😢 se les recuerda con tanto cariño
Descansen empaz primos
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love sephardim jews greetings from istanbul
ENORMA GRESEALA a facut Antonescu deportindu-i pe evrei in Transnistria!Eu sint romanca,crestina ortodoxa nascuta intr-un sat de linga Radauti.EVREII?Niste oameni capabili si foarte seriosi,oameni buni de pus la rana.Fara evrei,Radautiul nu mai este ce a fost cu adevarat.
Respect,domnule Salzmann!Mi-ati adus aminte de Radautiul meu cu evreii mei.
Wonderful and beautiful so very precious.
I am from an old Sephardi greek family and in my great grandparents time we had relatives of ours in Istanbul.Our family in Salonika had married in with them.Such was that area in the good old days of the Ottoman Empire.
what about the kline club?
Beautiful and emotional, thanks for sharing ❤🙏
ןIMPRESIONANT SI IN ACELAS TIMP TRIST
100% of these people are dead
This is on the level of how the YWCA use to operate. There was one in every major city, even in Hawaii. Very cheap and clean for any single woman to live, work or go to school.
Disgusting. Absolute debauchery of mind & spirit. You need Jesus Christ to wash you clean & I hope & pray you find forgiveness before you stand before him 🙏🏻
Thank god if you were not living in Europe during this timeline because damn near everybody was homeless dying on the streets.
These Single Room Occupancy hotels are the key to solving the homeless crisis. But our govt leaders would rather gentrify. They rather build affordable apts rather affordable SRO'S.
I was born in a hospital around 60th st. ny,ny., 1961. I was told it is no longer there..
I feel like the whole block where CBGB's were SRO's. So we'd be doing our punk thing on the ground level, but 2nd floor on up was pretty much like these. The whole Bowery area. Even further up, the Chelsea Hotel was sorta/kinda a step above these, but it became famous because the eclectic residents...
I’d like to know what happened to these guys,months or maybe years after filming ended?
Flop houses are old as the hills.
WE LIVED THE BRONX A SMALL 2 BED APT FOR 65 A MONTH IN 71'
I remember in the 80's I rented a SRO in the local roach motel and if you wanted paid an extra $20 a month for my own bathroom, any overnight guests were $15 a night extra, but I was a good girl at 14, I looked 18 because I was fat, I was a cashier at the local bar in Phoenix AZ in the cash cage
All those SRO's are now Luxury Condos and 1 BR Apartments renting for 5000 per month.
The Forgotten..😢
Charles Bukowski and Tom Waits made this lifestyle seem romantic. It isn't.
I live in an sro room and I am in my 70s with a walker and mice .. 2023
1.20 the fridge would probably work better if he'd defrost it smfh. That freezer section is just awful.
If they could make new ones and somehow make them safe from crime and totally soundproof we could get a lot of people off the street.
Amazing.
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹/CHEERS MR.SALZMAN!🫖☕🥐,Thanks for sharing the slideshow exibition. I am new to your channel, and i will be sure to check out your other videos⭐
I loved mine in North Beach San Francisco...575 Columbus. $310 per month(might have been raised $10 once). You could see the building the sniper used in "DIrty Harry"!
I lived in a group home in L.A. quite similar. An old Craftsman house, with our own room, and lock. But we had to share a kitchen and two bathrooms. It was basically pretty awful, even though fairly clean. The residents were severely mentally ill (I am also), but some just went way off the rails, and there were suicides, drug o.ds, and I had to witness a bloody scene when on guy grabbed another roommate’s knives and locked himself in his room. The cops were called, and they kicked down the door. The surprising thing was that there were about five cops with their guns drawn, yelling at the guy to drop his knife for at least 30 minutes. I should have witnessed a gory suicide by cop, but the guy plunged the knives in his stomach. Fortunately he was a really big guy. The cops ran over and handcuffed him, but also helped him onto an ambulance. Cops today would have shot first. This was not too long after Rodney King, and y these cops were very conscientious. But the blood left me with an impression I’ll never forget. I have left that long ago, and was set up in a section 8 apartment, in the same complex, which served the mentally ill. I had some dangerous and threatening neighbors, until I found a place where my neighbors are actually quite nice. Not the best neighborhood, too far away from my doctors, but where I can go out to downtown, and find all sorts of things to do. I can’t complaint too much. We all have asshole apartment managers, lol, and my place is no exception. Housing is terrible here. If you get a voucher, you are out of luck, because every place that accepts housing vouchers have long wait lists, so people lose them. It’s a joke
Why can't we go back to SRO-type housing ? Everything doesn't have to be "luxury" does it ? I would be very happy to live in a "rooming" or "boarding" style apartment. I'm not interested in having a lot of furniture, and I don't have a lot of stuff. Not meaning to state the obvious, but we need more housing for average people and not everything for high-end or yuppie pricing.
Lee Harvey Oswald lived in a "rooming house" I suppose we would call it a bedsit in UK. 😮
Amintiri foarte frumoase!Felicitări!
Poor people had it much better back then. At least room, a bed and a radiator for heat, which would be waaaaay more desirable than a tent or a sidewalk.
Yes, I'm noticing tents more and more.
at the 1:23 mark... that was an "ice box" for real... I guess no tenant wanted to defrost it...
I know all these places. They were a part of my neighborhood on the Upper Westside. I recognize the names Vancouver, Endicott. On my way home from work on payday I'd give money to panhandlers from the SROs on West End Avenue. I liked to walk home after work and I'd usually choose Broadway. My regulars as I'd come to think of them would be waiting on their street corners. I noticed how tired and thin they looked. One by one I saw fewer and fewer familiar faces until they were all gone. The " Monster" I figured out later had gotten them all. They died of AIDS. It was sad. They weren't bad human beings, just troubled. They always had a friendly smile for me.
Thank Goodness SROs or Studio Apts were available in the 90s. My first one was with a Murphy Bed for $200 a month in 91
All those SRO's are now Luxury Condos or 1 BR Apartments renting for 5000 per month.
Kids now a days do not take the time to look back, find out how it was for a lot of Americans. These urban photos show a hard time. 1969 we were in a recession, I lived in the Pacific Northwest and times were tough.
Excellent, thanks
In the mid 1970s I lived in a single room occupancy with 30 other dudes sharing a single bathroom after joining the United States Navy at 17 years old. The most disturbing thing about this situation was the boat had two galleys, so I never knew where my next meal was coming from. 😅
It's a disgrace that today the poor and even the incarcerated DEMAND to be given better living conditions than we had to endure while serving, and they proclaim their right to this without having to do any work whatsoever.
. Bloated sense of entitlement.
Thank you for putting names to the faces. It helps me appreciate them as the individuals they were.
Guess what?... all those single room buildings are mmnow gentrified and made into million dollar condo's with yuppies with their BMW's and Mercdes Benz's ruining the character of the REAL New York!... GO BACK TO YOUR SUBURBS AND LET THE LOW INCOME PEOPLE SURVIVE!!!
If this right here isn't the saddest of sad pictures. 2:25 Man, oh man, is that what awaits us ? 4:23 ain't much better. And, I wonder what happened to ol' Alfred ? The guy at the beginning,
If Klaus and W e f have their way it is.
Great YT Posting. 12 years ago, though. YT seems to have been deteriorating gradually and steadily since its early days.
One of the rooms has awful mould in the top left hand corner. UNsanitary situation back then too, and nothing imporved.