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Yes it was a metal building.I remember when we really wanted a treat we would leave Lefferts Jr. Hi and go there for lunch.Wow it is so amazing that all of you live where my fondest memories will always remain. I am trying to remember all the places on Franklin Avenue. There was a drug store called Kleins on Franklin and Carroll. St. Directly across the street there was a candy store called Geisers and he had hamburgers and a soda fountain.We could buy any candy for a nickel and an ice cream cone was 12 cents for a double scoop of breyers with chocolate sprinkles. There was Rae's luncheonette on the corner of P.S. 241 and I went to school with the owner's son. There was Ben and Sol
s Deli wich was so out of this world. There was a toy store and the man who owned it was called Chickie.Back then there was no supermarket until much later and that was an A and P.The avenue was lined with a shoemaker, a Butcher Shop, a poultry store, Franklin Manor, a candy store we called Garcia and Vega which was close to Eastern Parkway, a children's clothing store, and a laundry.There were 2 bakeries on both sides of the street.My dentist lived above one of the shops. I also remember going to a birthday party in the basement of a house on Franklin Ave.The boys dad was a doctor.

Good luck with the bowling alley. I would like to say this one thing lol yes I know I keep typing away.I did not have much growing up.I had hand me down clothes, hand me down toys, and if we ate out once every three months it was a treat.there were 4 of us in a 1 bedroom apt that my mother called the 3 holes, but it was the best time of my life.It was not because I was young then but because I was surrounded by neighbors and friends who cared and the people in the community cared about each other.I know times have changed all over the country.I just wish everyone would understand that it is your neighborhood and it was once a wonderful place and can be again.We did not have much material wise, but what we had was priceless.

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I lived there from 1951 to 1964.I was born in what is now Brookdale Hospital but it was called Beth-El then.Back then the places to shop on Franklin Ave were all owned by local individuals.They did not have chain pharmacies.The stores were owned by people in the neighborhoods around them.They knew you by name.If you didn't have money on you back then they would even let u get the item and run up a tab.People always paid up too. The women rarely worked then as far as outside the home and they would do the grocery shopping in the morning and if there was something that was needed that the avenue didn't have they easily rode the subway downtown Brooklyn.Oh they had wonderful stores downtown too.Pitkin Ave which was not in Crown heights was where we all went for school schoes.It was block after block of shoe stores.There were also men's shops and hat stores because back then the men all wore hats.

Flatbush Avenue was also a full of stores to and you could buy just about anything you wanted.There was a store called Loehman's where the women would buy designer dresses for less.I am not sure if it is still there but it had gold lions in front of the store.