Interesting. Actually, Primary Source Media had many 20th-century directories. That's why Ancestry has their cache now, as they purchased the scans. While PSM hadn't posted much past 1930, Ancestry has various directories at least into the 1950s. So that may be what the person was writing about. Nothing yet that I've seen online from 1946 for Manhattan though.
Getting back to the original question... As a former production person, I would recommend the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center. There were (and still are) various directories to recording and taping facilities, such as guides published by Back Stage. The library also has an excellent vertical file that might include clippings about the studio.
Best,
Leslie Corn, M.A., F.G.B.S.
Professional Genealogist
Genealogical Research, Due Diligence, & Missing Heirs
New York, NY
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-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Jan 31, 2005 11:43 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: 1946 Recording Studio
In a message dated 1/31/2005 11:19:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
Primary Source Media had a marvelous collection of city directories on line.
It was possible to search across time periods and localities in one
search.....As I recall, Google has a cache of the homepage still available.
Yes, Leslie, I subscribed to the PSI Media directories and have written about
them and their de-posting - as you have. But a respondent to the question
about a 1946 recording studio was "sure" there were mid-20th century directories
posted on the web.
My tally of the PSI directories does not tally 20th century directories (and
certainly nothing relevant to 1946) and my cache of the page defaults to
their "no results" page: "The web site you are trying to access was discontinued
as of December 31st, 2001."
Thus my own query: "If this or any subscriber is familiar with any 20th
century city directories posted on-line, now or at any time in the past, I would be
interested to hear from them."
Best, Christopher
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