The Addams Family, “Uncle Fester’s Punctured Romance”

Steel Globe Tower, Coney Island

Early in 1906 advertisements appear in New York papers announcing “a ground floor chance to share profits” in “the largest steel structure ever erected … the greatest amusement enterprise in the whole world … the best real estate venture,” the Globe Tower. It will cost $1,500,000 to erect. The public is urged to invest. The stock will pay 100 percent interest annually.
Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York, 1978

 Albania

Ava Gardner c. 1940s