More Smith Street History: In 1929, Instead Of Bagels And Beer, A Dentist And Lunch

323 Smith Street At President

323 Smith now

No bagels at 323 Smith Street back in 1928. No cheap beer in the side yard either. You see, before there was Bagels By The Park and the Gowanus Yacht Club, Park Restaurant and Lunch occupied the storefront. And if you should have needed a dentist, Dr. Kronman was on the second floor. Sometime between '28 and now, the place was home to the Park Lane Florist as you can see on the green sign still attached on the façade. And when I moved here in 1985, a car service dispatched their vehicles from there.
And 321 Smith, the current newsstand, was a meat market.

Again, my thanks go out to Alexandrea for sharing.