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This photo was taken around 1942 to 1945. My father owned this
watch repair/jewelery business at 1137 Flatbush Avenue, just off
the corner of Claredon Road. We lived around the corner on
Claredon Road. My grandparents, who lived a block away in an
apartment on Cortelyou Road, used to work at the Rialto Movie
Theater on Flatbush Avenue.
--Submitted by Ronald J. Gonzalez, Sr., Maysville, North Carolina
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This picture was taken in 1956 after a snow storm in front of
442 New Jersey Avenue, one block east of Thomas Jefferson High
School.
--Submitted by John Bilitsky, Stuart, Florida
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The scoreboard at Ebbets Field, taken in the summer of 1957, the
last year the Dodgers played there.
--Submitted by Ed Mahoney
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This photo was taken in 1968 at the entrance to Astroland on the
boardwalk at Coney Island. This statue was huge. My sister and I
are at his feet; I am in the stroller.
--Submitted by Anonymous
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Aaron Grossfield (aka prize fighter Bob Ellis) on the beach at
Coney Island, in the mid 1950's.
--Submitted by Anonymous
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Taken in the Summer of 1955, playing either stick or punchball
on 66th Street. Looking toward 17th Avenue. Cohen's Grocery is
on the corner.
--Submitted by Ron Hoffman
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This was Ebbets Field, taken from Bedford Avenue on July 4,
1936. I was 15 years old. Note the cobblestones. There probably
was a doubleheader that holiday as there almost always was.
Ebbets Field was our 'Field Of Dreams' back then...still missed
by us old folks.
--Submitted by John C. Nichols
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This was my husband's grandfather's store on Union Street
between Bond and Union Street taken in 1940. We know the year
because that is my mother-in-law and her sister, both pregnant
with my husband and his cousin.
--Submitted by Catherine Garbellotto
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This picture of me getting smooched on the day of my First
Communion was taken in 1951 on Avenue K, with East 40th Street
behind us. Two blocks further behind us was P.S. 119 and
Flatbush Avenue one block beyond that.
--Submitted by John G. Nuti, Ocala, FL
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This was my Dad's auto parts shop at 847 New Lots Avenue between
Shepperd Avenue and Essex Street. On the same block as his shop
was Floyd's Chinese Laundry (right next door), Carauana Brothers
Grocery, and a hardware store on the corner of Shepperd Avenue.
To the left of his shop was a driveway, then an apartment house
and Frank the shoemaker on the corner of Essex Street. The name
"P&P" came from my father, Anthony Panzarella, and his partner
Frank Pecora. They first opened in 1952 on the corner of
Shepperd and New Lots, then moved to this location a couple of
years later. Believe it or not this store used to be the
Brooklyn Public Library. The store is long gone now; the whole
square block was torn down to make room for "new" housing.
--Submitted by Joseph Panzarella
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