Bowery Pins and Buttons
Description: The Dead Rabbits were a notorious Irish-American gang that roamed the streets of old New York in a notorious slum known as the Five Points. It was a time when only the tough could survive. Personal grievances, business competition, and even political differences were often settled with fists. The Dead Rabbits’ nemesis would be a Nativist gang known as the Bowery Boys. Violence was golden as America struggled to define itself, but the struggle helped shape the character of the USA, and came to define the hard-working, hard-fighting, hard-drinking American immigrant.
Description: The Dead Rabbits were a notorious Irish-American gang that roamed the streets of old New York in a notorious slum known as the Five Points. It was a time when only the tough could survive. Personal grievances, business competition, and even political differences were often settled with fists. The Dead Rabbits’ nemesis would be a Nativist gang known as the Bowery Boys. Violence was golden as America struggled to define itself, but the struggle helped shape the character of the USA, and came to define the hard-working, hard-fighting, hard-drinking American immigrant.
Description: Vintage 1942 one-sheet-style tribute to Bowery at Midnight, the Monogram B-horror starring Bela Lugosi. Painted pulp art: Lugosi in a fedora and overcoat, a hypnotic stare, foggy Bowery tenements, a glowing Friendly Mission neon sign, and the living dead crawling up from the cellar. Distressed cream paper, blood-red title, sickly green moonlight. For classic horror fans, Lugosi collectors, midnight-movie crowds, and anyone who likes their B-pictures cheap, mean, and a little undead.
