Vintage Photographs Show What Brooklyn Really Looked Like in the 1950s

by Matt Coneybeare

on Nov. 5, 2015 at 3:29 PM

at 3:29 PM on November 5, 2015

May 25, 1950: Cop grins broadly as driver of one of the first cars to enter the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel hands him his ticket.

Passengers leaving ferry in Brooklyn.

People relaxing on the sea front at Coney Island, New York.

This aerial photo, from high above Brooklyn, shows Ebbets Field in 1950.

The beach at Coney Island. The parachute ride is visible in the background, 1952.

Models from the CBS gameshow, "The Big Payoff," Cindy Robbins and Pat Conway ride The Whip designed and built by W.F. Mangels Company of Coney Island, at Steeplechase Park. Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY.

A group of workers getting refreshments from a portable snack stand underneath Brooklyn Bridge.

Fans celebrating Dodgers' World Series victory, 1955, Brooklyn.

The Lefferts Homestead in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1955.

Photo of Marquees Venues, 1956, New York, Flatbush and DeKalb, Brooklyn Paramount Theatre.

Students at Brooklyn School of Automotive Trades and members of the Automotive Custom Crafters Club are pledged to provide honest service to the motoring public without charge. Here they give a driver a push start, 1956.

Three young boys enjoy the animals in the window of Boro Pet Center in Brooklyn Heights in March 1958.

via TIME

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