Kids making the scene
What happened one day on 38th Street: those three kids followed the photographers down (or up) the block. These kids would not be denied, though I doubt that anyone was trying to deny them.
Neon in semi-daylight
4920 New Utrecht Avenue: I chose this photograph for its neon in semi-daylight, vivid in the shadow of the El. The band of light between the El and the buildings looks itself a bit like neon, or at least like fluorescence.
A New Utrecht address
I wonder if anyone who isn’t reading this post knows of the tragedy that visited this address just over a century ago.
Delicatessen, or food store?
Right next to one another on Fort Hamilton Parkway.
A Boro Park five-and-ten
On !3th Avenue.
Winckler’s
Just some candy store, you say? Just some luncheonette? Not so. At one time this establishment had its own matchbooks: Winckler & Meyer / Homemade Ice Cream / & Ices / Luncheonette.
Sam’s, not Sam’s
An Italian-American grocery store.
Culver × 8
Last Sunday the Ghost of Brooklyn Past visited the Culver Paper Co. in Boro Park. This Sunday the Ghost walks the environs of the Culver Line in Boro Park.
Got twine?
Here, under the El tracks, is the Culver Paper Co.
SHELL
A Brooklyn gas station, c. 1939–1941.
Bocce
Under the El tracks in Brooklyn.
Why a duck?
A house, a candy store, a duck selling gasoline.
Two or more grocery stores
One unknown, one a Roulston’s, side by siide in Brooklyn, c. 1939–1940.
Church Ave. Poultry Co.
My mom once told me in passing that as a girl she would walk with her grandmother to Thirteenth Avenue (“the Avenue,” the shopping street) to buy a chicken. In other words, to pick out a chicken while it was still in possession of its life. I think I’ve found the spot.
Blatt’s 4 - 8 & 19¢ Store
In Boro Park, on 13th Avenue, c. 1939–1941.
Sol. Lou. 25¢ a Lesson
3920 13th Avenue, Boro Park, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941.
Thirteenth Avenue Retail Market
The Thirteenth Avenue Retail Market (WIndsor 8-8788) was one of seven New York City markets built in the interest of sanitation, removing pushcarts from the streets and placing them indoors, with the benefits of air conditioning, screening, and hot and cold running water. With dim memories and several photographs.
Kubrick Self Service Stores
The Internets will now have one result for “kubrick self service stores.”
Another Brooklyn candy store
I remember buying reprints of old comics at Mary’s, including one with a hero who discovered his superpower when pulling baked potatoes outta the fire for the gang.
Another Brooklyn candy store
Pup’s, or Pup’s Luncheontte.
A 13th Avenue candy store
4319 13th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.