This Thurber Thursday morning I’m happily anticipating returning to The New Yorker‘s offices at 1 World Trade Center. It’s been quite some time — years — since the last time I stepped out of one of the buildings super smooth elevators and into New Yorker central.
You might recall that the offices are home to several Thurber drawings; he originally drew them on an office wall at the magazine’s second headquarters at 25 West 43rd Street. When the magazine moved across the street the drawings went across the street as well, and then moved onto the times Square offices, and then to 1 World Trade Center. I’ve been lucky enough to see them in all of their habitats over the years.
If you wish to read more about the drawings, check out Michael Rosen’s A Mile and A Half of Lines, and/or if you have access to the New York Times’s online archive you can read about the drawings removal from 25 West 43rd Street in a February 19, 1991 piece by Deirdre Carmody, “There At The New Yorker, With Thurber.”
Below you see what several of the drawings looked like in their original home, on a wall at The New Yorker‘s offices, 25 West 43rd Street as Liza Donnelly saw them (and I saw them) for the first time. (photo: Liza Donnelly).
Note: apologies for today’s late posting.