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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 19:28:41 2020  |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Mon Jan 27 20:04:40 2020, in response to Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 19:28:41 2020. Taken from the corner of Supthin/Archer. |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jan 27 20:08:59 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Bill from Maspeth on Mon Jan 27 20:04:40 2020. Sutphin Blvd looking north from Archer Ave. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jan 27 20:32:33 2020, in response to Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 19:28:41 2020. Sutphin and Archer. The courthouse up the block is a dead giveaway. |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Jan 27 20:35:05 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jan 27 20:32:33 2020. Anyone know the name of the theater? |
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Posted by VictorM on Mon Jan 27 20:47:02 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Jan 27 20:35:05 2020. Loew's Hillside Theater |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Mon Jan 27 21:31:10 2020, in response to Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 19:28:41 2020. The most interesting feature of this pic is the Jamaica Ave elevated.Those are R-1/9's on the el, during the 1950's, aren't they? |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Mon Jan 27 21:40:23 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Elkeeper on Mon Jan 27 21:31:10 2020. R16's. |
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Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Mon Jan 27 21:40:44 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by JayZeeBMT on Mon Jan 27 20:08:59 2020. Am I disqualified? |
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Posted by Wakefield-241st Street on Mon Jan 27 21:44:11 2020, in response to Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 19:28:41 2020. The Loews Hillside theater on Supthin Blvd was a dead giveaway |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Jan 27 22:10:37 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by VictorM on Mon Jan 27 20:47:02 2020. I thought it was a W. so I thought Williamsburg. Guess I didn't zoom in close enough. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 22:37:28 2020, in response to Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 19:28:41 2020. All winners here (as usual). Sutphin Blvd & Archer Ave is correct. Photo was taken in 1956. |
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Posted by El-Train on Mon Jan 27 22:45:11 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 22:37:28 2020. Fantastic photo. For as long as I can remember (going back to the early '90's), that immediate area by the Jamaica transit hub has been pretty dumpy. and still is to this day. The pretense behind abandoning/dismantling the el north of Queens Blvd. was to remove the blight across Jamaica Ave, was it not?Just curious if it was always like this for the older/wiser folk here. |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Tue Jan 28 07:26:44 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Bill from Maspeth on Mon Jan 27 21:40:23 2020. At the time, they were the newest cars in what today we call the B Division. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Tue Jan 28 09:21:30 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by VictorM on Mon Jan 27 20:47:02 2020. Correct. There’s an excellent b & w picture of the theater in the lobby of the building at 89-00 Sutphin Boulevard. There are several other interesting historical photos there. Come take a look sometime. |
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Posted by pragmatist on Tue Jan 28 09:31:53 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Jan 27 22:10:37 2020. You can see the Courthouse/County Clerks office, that's still there... |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jan 28 09:54:55 2020, in response to Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 19:28:41 2020. I wonder who was the last city to adopt the Yellow light. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Jan 28 12:55:49 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jan 28 09:54:55 2020. They still had some of those when I moved away from NY in 1976. Don't know when they were finally removed. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Jan 28 12:59:23 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Jan 28 12:55:49 2020. Oh and the best part: This was on Liberty Av in East New York. One stretch (east of Pennsylvania Av, not sure how far east it went), they had lights at every other corner. If you were on Liberty, there would be a sign at the unsignalled intersection saying "Stop here when next signal is red". On a cross street with no signal, you had to stop, (look down the street at the next signal to see if it was green or red. If green you waited, if red you proceeded) Sounds ridiculous now. Glad I had not yet started driving when I lived in NYC. |
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Posted by vfrt on Tue Jan 28 13:31:33 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Jan 28 12:59:23 2020. Why were the traffic signals on Liberty Avenue the last to be upgraded to the standard RYG overhead on mast arm signals? |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Jan 28 15:48:31 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by vfrt on Tue Jan 28 13:31:33 2020. Don't know, after I left. Also, I should say that I was talking about not having a signal at eevery intersection. The signals that were there may very well have been 3 aspect signal heads, not 100% sure though. |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Jan 28 16:23:43 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Jan 28 12:59:23 2020. If I recall when I started taking driving lessons in NYC in 1963, the driver’s manual actually had a chapter on what the various sequences of the old double signals meant. |
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Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jan 28 18:03:24 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by El-Train on Mon Jan 27 22:45:11 2020. "The pretense behind abandoning/dismantling the el north of Queens Blvd. was to remove the blight across Jamaica Ave, was it not?"Correct. But the powers that be assumed that what happened with the EL's removal in Manhattan (real estate value booming etc.) would happen on Jamaica Ave. AFAIK, that never happened. Sure, the sun shone bright down on Jamaica Ave. but there was no massive demolition/construction akin to what happened on 2nd & 3rd Ave. Big named merchants suffered with the loss of this valuable transit link that was "replaced" by a slightly faster than footspeed Jamaica Ave Bus. Hindsight: Removal of the Jamaica Ave El was a big mistake IMO, of course. |
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Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jan 28 18:14:38 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Jan 28 12:59:23 2020. "there would be a sign at the unsignalled intersection saying "Stop here when next signal is red""That's an interesting way to save money. I hope there isn't a truck in your line of sight. " (look down the street at the next signal to see if it was green or red. If green you waited, if red you proceeded)" Look down the cross street? Sounds fun with those giant hoods on those older cars. |
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Posted by Elkeeper on Tue Jan 28 19:52:54 2020, in response to Re: Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jan 28 18:03:24 2020. It was a big mistake. When I went to St John's Univ in the late 1960's, downtown Jamaica was already in a decline. For some reason, they thought that removing that part Jamaica el would change things for the better. Did they really hope that someone was going to build nice office or residential structures there, like 2nd and 3rd Ave in Manhattan? It did not, just like removing the Bronx 3rd Ave el never improved those neighborhoods, either. |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Wed Jan 29 10:08:15 2020, in response to Guess the Location?? (easy), posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Mon Jan 27 19:28:41 2020. Toto... I don't think we are in Moscow anymore. |
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