Photo Gallery: 63rd Drive
| Looking west down a well lit Wetherole, although long exposure photography tends to exaggerate light. The corner store still held the 1970's era falafel joint. The next store down on Wetherole, with the sign jutting out somewhat, was Bagnati's Shoe Repair. We used to use the gap between his sign and the wall to play basketball. Well, maybe it more with a Spaulding punchball than an actual basketball. My two best friends lived in the flanking apartment houses. The one on the left was probably just barely pre-war, whereas the one on the right more resembled some of the 1920's buildings dominating the Brooklyn and Bronx landscape. It probably went up right at the beginning of the depression. Entering the 1990's, EVERY building in the city was rushing to go co-op. That ardor waned as the real estate market tanked, but has returned in the last couple of years. |