Grate Fishing Framed or Unframed:Framed This gem of a city

This gem of a city poised gracefully on the Adriatic Sea is Dubrovnik

dirt and poverty

plusÊsix subway tokens

1927 after Charles Lindbergh's historic solo flight from New York to Paris

A Times staff photographer took this photo of a police officer making the rounds on the abandoned tracks

Grate Fishing Framed or Unframed:Framed This gem of a cityA 12 year old boy goes fishing with "uncanny skill" for coins and other treasures in the city's subway grating in 1959. His only tools: a small rock tied to a 12 foot piece of string and some lard (which is used to make the rock sticky). He then lowers the line and hauls up his catch. Sometimes a dime, sometimes a subway token, sometimes a ring of gold. Times photographer Allyn Baum captured the boy as he was surrounded by a large crowd in Times