You may remember from earlier this summer that I posted a second photo quiz, soliciting input regarding a number of old photographs of bands cavorting in or around New York City. One in particular proved to be maddeningly elusive, that being the above shot of The Cure circa April of 1980, taken by the great Ebet Roberts. I never got very far in determining where Robert Smith & the boys are depicted (that hardware store behind drummer/keyboardist Lol Tolhurst didn't prove to be helpful after all). Failing reaching out to the photographer herself (and who is to say she'd even remember?), I chalked it up to another one I'd never be able to solve.
The meticulous Bob Egan, meanwhile, from the truly excellent PopSpots NYC, recently weighed in. Here's Bob's take:
I’ve been looking into the CURE spot. Very intriguing and very hard. It SEEMS like it should be a street like 23rd or 57th, but the street isn’t 2 way. I have a little calculator that tells which cross street 406 is at on NYC avenues, but none seemed the place. The awning says Public House in back but couldn’t find a bar by that name. And the site of old closed bars doesn’t have one listed. They look like they are coming from The Javits center or somethng because they all seem to have goodie bags. The Club was on 62nd street but that didn’t seem to help. No hardware stores in NY with an address of 406 as far as I could tell. Maybe the Hardware store was next store making it 40* or 404.Will keep plugging away. It's Challenging.
What do YOU think?
Meanwhile, here's the Cure from possibly later that same day, performing "A Forest" at Hurrah's on the Upper West Side.
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