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Terminal Bar

Stefan Nadelman · USA · Documentary / Flash Animation · 22 min · 185K views

Directed by Stefan Nadelman · Starring Sheldon Nadelman, Tom Clifford · 2003

A bartender's decade of photographs chronicles a dive bar across from New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal, its constantly changing regulars and a city sliding into decline.

A bartender's candid snapshots resurrect the grit, humor and humanity of a vanished 1970s Times Square.

One of the most celebrated of all modern shorts, Terminal Bar is a fascinating pictorial history of a New York City bar whose customers, from the hard-drinking working class Irish to the coiffed African American gay male

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