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Union Turnpike & 138th Street, Queens

2 historical photos taken here between 1925 and 1929, oldest first.

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  • Queens: Union Turnpike - 138th Street, 1925–1929

    Queens: Union Turnpike - 138th Street

    1925; 1929

  • Queens: Union Turnpike - 138th Street, 1925–1929

    Queens: Union Turnpike - 138th Street

    1925; 1929

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Queens: Union Turnpike - 138th Street, 1925–1929

Photo 1 of 2 at Union Turnpike & 138th Street, Queens

Queens: Union Turnpike - 138th Street

1925; 1929

Union Turnpike, south side (foreground), at 138th Street (formerly Hoffman Ave.), showing two frame houses. View No. 1 shows the S.E. corner and the Guesthouse of Arman Lazarus, a road house. In View No. 2, at the S.W. corner, is another guesthouse known as the Gasthaus zeun Armen Teufel. April 1929. View 2: August 1925. Eugene L. Armbruster Collection.

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