Behind the Zipper color-blue and the city was spinning

and the city was spinning under the impact of spontaneous "hoop-spinning" contests

three huge searchlights were turned on the who passed by

” published March 15

he wrote to Mr

Behind the Zipper color-blue and the city was spinningThe zipper around The New York Times Building at One Times Square began operating in 1928. To display the news, an operator had to compose the message by hand using thin slabs called letter elements. In 1953, the Times photographer Sam Falk took this image of those elements being assembled into a message for New Yorkers. Printed on gicle archival photo paper, this intriguing image is available to you framed or unframed. It includes a Times certificate