“Window painting on Eighth Street”
“A scene at the Thanksgiving window painting contest held on West Eighth Street Tuesday sponsored by the Eighth Street Businessmen’s Association and the West Side Savings Bank. Drawing especially for The Villager by Joseph Papin.” (The Villager, Greenwich Village New York, November 25, 1959)
A good friend who is an artist helped to sort out the precise corner where the 1959 Thanksgiving window painting occurred – the corner of 8th Street and 6th Avenue, right by a Nedick’s eatery.
A view of the same scene from an earlier day, looking down 8th Street from 6th Avenue to 5th Avenue (large building center right, 1 5th Avenue) (Bettmann Archive, photo creation date listed as 1950, may be incorrect):
The Nedick’s (later to become Nathan’s and now occupied by Spectrum) was very near the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now the Jefferson Market Library). The tower on the left side of the drawing below is the Jefferson Market Library:
This drawing superimposed over the 2024 Google map of the Jefferson Market Courthouse was done for the Greenwich Village Guide, edited by William Honan and illustrated by Joseph Papin, 1959.
Joseph Papin’s drawing in full, scanned from the 1959 Greenwich Village Guide:
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