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Brooklyn

Once Upon the 1970s

Via Brooklyn Heights Blog comes this photo (taken from a 1976 New York Department of City Planning revitalization proposal) of a long-closed Montague Street OTB branch:

Google Maps, oddly, still locates the betting shop at 180 Montague, even though the street-level spaces are now taken up by a grocery store, bank, and parking service — which I think is a real loss, since it sometimes would be pretty convenient to have an OTB right around the corner. And who wouldn’t want these guys in their neighborhood? Check out the dapper man in the back — he’s styling in his pork pie hat.

Posted in Miscellany on March 26, 2009 / Tagged Brooklyn, Montague Street, OTB