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80 Delancey Street, 1937. The street vendor here is sitting on the Allen Street median, directly across the street from the west facade of 80 Delancey Street. The plain flat brick facade remains the same, while the architecturally detailed south facade (not visible here) survives as well. The vendor is selling "Indian Nuts," which was the culturally inappropriate name for pinon, or pine nuts. These street nuts were not sold, shelled and roasted for $30 a pound such as they are today in Whole Foods, but in the shell in a wax or paper bag for 1 cent. A movie theatre staple as well as a street nut, they were once somewhat nostalgically described as, "those tiny nuts we bit open to get at a kernel that wasn't worth the work."

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84 Delancey Street

Grosoff Bros, menswear store with pushcarts in front at 84 Delancey Street, New York.
80 Delancey Street image

80 Delancey Street

Indian Nuts.; City Scenes
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117 Orchard Street

Bargain shopping, possibly on Orchard Street
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120 Allen Street

Manhattan: Allen Street - Delancey Street 120 Allen Street, adjoining the N.E. corner of Delancey Street. April 7, 1928. P. L. Sperr.
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