☞ REMEMBER: Turk's Bar on 7th Ave circa 1958

A photo from 1958 shows some impressive neon at the corner of 118th and 7th Avenue.  If this lounge was still around today, we would most definitely stop by for a drink but Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard has yet to come up with anything as elaborately designed as Turk's Bar.  With the demise of the old signage at Lenox Lounge and Minton's, this sort of historic look is vanishing quickly in Harlem but new places such as Cantina or Harlem Tavern have distilled some of the nostalgic spirit.

Image courtesy the Museum of the City of New York