“Home of Piccalilli”
A Bronx tax photo.
A Brooklyn public library
A few years ago, when I was asking my mom for memories of her Brooklyn childhood, I wrote this down: “As a girl, Mom walked to the Boro Park library on Saturday mornings. It was on 13th Avenue, toward the higher street numbers.” And there it was, between 52nd and 53rd Streets.
Gnome Bakers
316 E. 59th Street, Manhattan.
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Two shots of the WPA tax photographers and clerks.
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“Uptown, it’s Alexander’s.”
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Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
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A reader sussed out the identity of a mysterious store appearing in two NYC tax photographs.
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Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941. They sometimes remind me of Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966).
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Inside a store that sells — what? Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
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An outtake from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
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Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
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Kid and rhinoceros. Outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
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A mystery storefront, now identified.
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People in streets, in outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941. With identification of a mystery storefront.
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Kids, in outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs, c. 1939–1941.
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Kids, in outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs.
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Kids in outtakes from the WPA’s New York City tax photographs.
Tiny Diner
A Brooklyn diner, c. 1939–1941. “Good Food for Good Health”? If you say so.
Ebinger’s
A part of Brooklyn reality.
Yow-Zah’s
A Brooklyn model-airplane shop.
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.
Chock full o’Nuts in Brooklyn
On Fulton Street, c. 1939–1941.
10031 4th Avenue
Fort Hamilton Beer Garden and Restaurant, Brooklyn, later the home of the Hamilton House.
Candy stores
Picholz’s and others.