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the rule, filth and dirt abound, and people are afraid to walk the streets at virtually any hour" All this will change, the group (U Care Committee for removal of the Myrtle Avenue El) believes, when the El is torn down.

Vol 115 page 104 Journal American Oct 16, 58

"The once decrepit Myrtle Ave el, which began to go out of style when trains and trolley cars were taken off the Brooklyn bridge, and now in its new dress of olive green paint, its moderized stations and new steel tracks, provides one of the smoothest rides in the borough. The el pillars already have been equipped with thick concrete block bases. T A Chairman Charles Patterson says he doesn't look for gripes from passengers for a long time."

vol 83 page 110 Brooklyn Eagle July 10, 49

Remembering Myrtle Ave by Mrs. May Ruff

"I got a big kick out of Martins Pawn Shop

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and the father and son entanglements. How about Annie, the daughter, with those trailing dresses? Not one today would believe it. She had about 27 inches cleaning up the sidewalk. Boy! Was she the cat's meow. I almost tore the trail off her dress one day as I turned the corner on skates.

vol 94 page 49 picture of Clinton one Sunday school parade in 1868

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Uncollected poetry and prose of Walt Whitman p 231

818-W5950 Pratt Library

(A Snow Scene in Brooklyn by F. Guy)

"We have heard from an old residenter, who personally knew this Guy, that the way he used to paint his pictures was in the following manner: A position and direction were fixed upon, looking out of a window if possible, and when the place to be pictured was well conned and determined Guy would construct a large rough frame and fix it in the window, or in such a position