Times Square in 1944 - Motorcade of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The motorcade of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt moving through Times Square, 1944. Looking up Broadway from the Times Building. Photograph by William Vandivert / Life.
On the rainy day of October 21, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, approaching an election for an historic fourth term, toured through 51 miles in the streets of the City of New York City in a large motorcade.
Hotel Astor, on the left, located between West 44th Street and W 45th Street, opened in 1904, the same year of the Times Building. The Paramount Building, on the left, was completed in 1926. It was the headquarters of Paramount Pictures and housed the Paramount Theatre.
Buildings on the block demolished to make way for Times Building.
Long Acre Square was renamed Times Square in 1904. This first subway line was completed in the same year.
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Times Square in 1944 - Motorcade of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
