Seen at intersection of Rockwell Place and Fulton Street
Park your car at the corner of DeKalb Avenue for 25¢.
Or park in the lot across the street for 50¢.
Too bad you are a few decades too late to take advantage of this deal!
Showing posts with label Fulton Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fulton Street. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
This Will Cure You!
Long ago in Brooklyn, at the Fulton Drug Company, 191 Fulton Street, one could buy a certain cure for headaches, neuralgia, fever, nervousness, sick or sour stomach for only 10¢ a box.
Dr. Marquet's French Headache wafers were tasteless, quick and sure.
Of course that was during Victorian times. These days, we have little pills, but French Headache Wafers sound so much more effective!
Related Reading:
Brooklyn Disease Du Jour: Dropsy In The Head
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Friday, March 7, 2008
Fulton Street, 1950
George H.Gray, president of the Brooklyn Real Estate Board, pointed out that the change will benefit all of Brooklyn "in that it will encourage the further development of a high-grade shopping center.
" Retail districts have proved helpful,"he said,"in other sections of the city, particularly along such a fine thoroughfare as Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, and they should produce beneficial results in this borough."
Turning Fulton Street into an elegant shopping destination has been tried before...back in the late 1940's, early 1950's. The unsightly elevated train structure had been removed shortly before that time and everything seemed possible. Zoning on the strip was changed
"prohibiting opening of other than high-class retail stores...There are a few spots in this great shopping area which have not yet yielded to the march of progress."
The picture above is from that era. I wonder if Lane Bryant, Ripley and the Waldorf Cafeteria shown in the photo were considered high-class.
Reading the New York Times article from 1948 is like reading news from 2008. 60 years have gone by and developers are still trying to figure out how to turn Fulton into Fifth, though these days, the latter has lost a bit of its luster, wouldn't you say?
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