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Working from the film-roll number for the outtake, an incredibly assiduous reader tracked down the location for the first photograph: Abraham Zacharoff Plumbing & Heating, 103 Varet Street, Brooklyn. Thanks, Brian.
The City Record (June 9, 1933) lists Mr. Zacharoff as a registered master plumber at this address. His home address: 101 E. 53rd Street, Brooklyn.
More outtakes to come.
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Do we know what street is shown in that first photo?
There’s nothing beyond whatever clues might be in the photos themselves. Sometimes there’s the photographer’s sign with block and lot numbers. Or there’s an identifiable location (like the armory in an earlier outtake). The first photo must be somewhere on the Lower East Side.
The link is one of the best things ever! I just got lost for over an hour and a half.Thank you!
looks like "abr.... plumbing and heating". 1940 manhattan phone book doesnt have page 15, so it may never be known???
Linda Sue, an added bonus is the challenge of finding your way back to one of the photographs. I still haven’t found my way back to a great instance of pareidolia in a housefront.
I am tempted to try to figure out the street. If Abr... is a first name, it might not help. And which borough? I have to go with Manhattan.
it's in brooklyn, will leave further phonebook searching to the more dauntless
I’ll try when I’m back at the computer.
https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/NYCMA~7~7~1009653~788214:629-Dumont-Avenue?sort=borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code&qvq=w4s:/where%2FDumont%2BAvenue;sort:borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code;lc:NYCMA~7~7&mi=118&trs=313
not sure if this is in the outtakes??
Ha! “Hey, mister, can I be in the pitcher?”
I made some headway, I think, with Brooklyn plumbing history. There was a Brooklyn plumber of some renown, Edgar L. Abrams, who died in 1939. He was in business as early as 1904. His business address, 209 Reid Avenue (now Malcolm X Boulevard), appears in commercial telephone directories in the 1930s, but he’s not in the 1940 book. Reid Avenue was apparently known for plumbing (“Reid avenue boasts of many plumbing shops”: from a short writeup of Abrams in The Plumbers Trade Journal, 1904).
But there are at least two problems: the tax photos of 209 Reid Avenue and adjacent addresses show nothing like the storefront in the outtake. And the ABR... lettering looks like it would need much more than AMS to complete the arc.
So I’m lost. But all indications are that Edgar L. Abrams had a very successful business.
By the way, if that photo is in the tax records (as it is), I think that excludes it from the outtakes.
i "think" this is it
https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/NYCMA~7~7~896661~684770:259-3-Avenue?sort=borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code&qvq=q:block%3D441%20and%20lot%3D4;sort:borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code;lc:NYCMA~7~7&mi=0&trs=1
Hard to say. I don’t see the little fence by the barber pole or the PRINTING sign and other signs down the block. If only these pictures could speak.
looks like a class trip
https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/NYCMA~7~7~956720~854588:332-Stagg-Street?sort=borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code&qvq=w4s:/where%2FStagg%2BStreet;sort:borough%2Cblock%2Clot%2Czip_code;lc:NYCMA~7~7&mi=139&trs=157
Yes. Everyone’s dressed up. That could mean it’s a parochial school, but they still look like they’re on a class trip somewhere.
Here’s one from the American Museum of Natural History. Colder weather, but still everyone’s dressed up.
https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/workspace/handleMediaPlayer?lunaMediaId=NYCMA~7~7~987163~856597
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