Okay, as I mentioned in my last post on the subject, I was never entirely convinced that I'd nailed the location of the above photograph of Blondie by Roberta Bayley. I speculated that they might be depicted posing on the corner where Great Jones Alley intersects Great Jones Street between Lafayette and Broadway. But that was just my hunch.
Other folks speculated that the actual spot is further to the east or further to the south. Again, given the decades that have ensued since Ms. Bayley took the photograph, this particular corner probably doesn't still look this way.
But there is another problem.
I'm basing my assumption on this photograph's connection to the more celebrated photograph below (also snapped by Bayley), wherein Debbie Harry and Chris Stein seem to be wearing the some outfits....
Call me crazy, but I've always assumed that -- being that Blondie and Roberta Bayley were all New Yorkers -- that this photograph (and any other shot from the same session) was snapped in New York City. That certainly looks like a NYC subway behind them, and the corner seen in the photo up top certainly looks like a Manhattan street corner circa the gritty 1970s.
PopSpots' Bob Egan, however, is not convinced.
After I'd posted my intial entry and slapped it up on Facebook, Bob weighed in. Here's what he had to say....
HI ALex,
These shots were taken during the same shoot as the one you were looking for. It was a fashion shoot for Jet-something clothes.Have you ever found out where these were from in the past? I don't recognize the stadium from Lower Manhattan.
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