Bob Schulenberg, Author at New York Social Diary

Schulenberg’s Page: Face to Face with the “King of Fashion”

Guest Diary• July 22, 2021.

Bob attends an exhibition at FIT in 1976 of “the King of Fashion," French couturier Paul Poiret — and it takes him places... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Paris, nous voici!

Guest Diary• July 15, 2021.

Hello Paris! Keeping with our travels, we return to Paris in 1962 with Bob and his sketchbook keeping a record of his trip... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Mobbed up and made to order

Guest Diary• July 2, 2021.

Bob is back in New York in August 1976. Seeing, recording, absorbing the city life... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Only in New York!

Guest Diary• May 6, 2021.

Bob the artist/illustrator is suddenly swamped with work on his venture into jewelry design in New York in the '70's. ... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Dancing in the Dark (and the death of the mini-skirt)

Guest Diary• April 29, 2021.

It’s the Summer of ’76 and John Lennon’s in the headline along with Elizabeth Taylor and whether the mini-skirt is dead; a New York day and nigh... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: The Fashion of the Time

Guest Diary• April 23, 2021.

New York summertime, mid-70s when the world was changing and New York was its center. Bob, as usual, was taking it all in with his sketchbook... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Coming and going with Lennon, Streisand and Picasso

Guest Diary• April 16, 2021.

It's the '70s in New York and there’s the nightclubs, amateur filmmaking, Streisand’s dress (when she was 19) and no John Lennon... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Magic and Realism

Guest Diary• April 8, 2021.

The artist’s sketchbook sometimes took on the flavor of a diary not only of his life but of the dramas in that world at that moment... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Theater in its many forms

Guest Diary• March 31, 2021.

It’s the early ’70s and Bob is out and about with sketchbook in tow; shopping around, going to movie screenings and off-broadway shows, and dining... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: History in the making!

Guest Diary• March 26, 2021.

Long ago but not far away, Bob’s sketches remind him of the experience (often in detail) of what it was like to be in NYC in 1973... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose!

Guest Diary• March 19, 2021.

Bob goes back to his hometown (L.A) to celebrate New Year’s with his family. And saw a whole other world. plus c’est la meme chose!... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: Only in Manhattan!

Guest Diary• March 5, 2021.

Bob recalls the Summer in the city in ’75 with a brief visit to the Pines in Fire Island, and also at DPC’s house in Connecticut, and back to summ... READ MORE

Schulenberg’s Page: So many people, so many places

Guest Diary• February 24, 2021.

So many people, so many places, so much of it recorded in his sketchbooks, of day-by-day, like this girl he met named Barbra... READ MORE

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