An elegant, if eery bunch: from downtown Brooklyn & beyond, the 40's/50's world of neon & fancy fonts. All photos from the Gottscho-Schleisner Collection of the Library of Congress.
Barton's Bonbonniere, DeKalb Avenue (1949)
Bostonian Shoes, Kings Highway (1951)
Bostonian Shoes, Kings Highway (1951)
Miracle Mart, Flatbush Avenue (1951)
Field Brothers, King's Highway (1953)
Rockabye, Avenue J (1947)
Hunter, Avenue U (1946)
Adler's, Flatbush Avenue (1946)
2 comments:
I bought a shirt at Field Brothers on Kings Highway. It is where you went if you didn't want to buy at the lower-end Robert Hall ( my sizes were in the HUSKY section) but didn't want to be foolish and overspend at a fancy store.
Thank you - what a nice story!
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