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Queens: Myrtle Avenue - 88th Place
1923

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Queens: Myrtle Avenue - 88th Place

1923

Myrtle Ave., west from 88th Place, showing at the right foreground, Opper's Washington Park of 1896, now the Glendale Studios. At the right background, vaguely seen is the Glendal Schnetzer Park Hotel; at the left foreground is the Emerald Hotel owned by one Walter. May 1923. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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