Behind the Zipper featured-sports but in 1914

but in 1914

Fein would later write

At The Athletic

all organized to make a coherent

" a Times editorial said upon his death at Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay

Behind the Zipper featured-sports but in 1914The zipper around The New York Times Building at One Times Square began operating in 1928. To display the news, an operator had to compose the message by hand using thin slabs called letter elements. In 1953, the Times photographer Sam Falk took this image of those elements being assembled into a message for New Yorkers. Printed on gicle archival photo paper, this intriguing image is available to you framed or unframed. It includes a Times certificate