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Myrtle Avenue & Union Turnpike, Queens

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    Queens: Myrtle Avenue - Union Turnpike

    1923

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Queens: Myrtle Avenue - Union Turnpike, 1923

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Queens: Myrtle Avenue - Union Turnpike

1923

Myrtle Ave., north side, between Union Turnpike and 81st Road, showing a roadhouse belonging to Welz and Zerweck, the brewer. These buildings were demolished prior to 1929. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection. May 1923.

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