1940's

This 1945 photo shows the College theater, on the northwest corner of Flatbush Avenue and Avenue H. On the marquee is one of the most popular films of 1945, Objective, Burma!, starring Errol Flynn. The secretarial school in the background is on the corner of Germania (Hillel) Place. The theater closed down around 1990. Stand on the corner near the Flatbush entrance to Target today, look northwest, and you will see a Vitamin Shoppe, Flatbush Optical and a Beauty Supply store in place of the barber shop and theater. (BRIAN MERLIS Collection/oldNYCphotos.com)

May 11, 1945 - Looking north on Flatbush Avenue. Avenue H crosses the image horizontally – the College theater is visible on the left. (BRIAN MERLIS Collection/oldNYCphotos.com)

Flatbush Avenue looking north toward the Junction - Woolworth’s on the left, the S.S. Kresge Co. (which later became the K-Mart Corporation) store on the right, and the flatiron building sitting center-right. August 16, 1946. (BRIAN MERLIS Collection/oldNYCphotos.com)

West side of Flatbush Avenue, between Avenue H and Germania Place, ca. 1946. The Sip-N-Snak was a little north of the College theater. (BRIAN MERLIS Collection/oldNYCphotos.com)

Chemistry students at Brooklyn College, 1948.

September 27, 1947 – Freedom Train at the LIRR Vanderveer Park station, near the intersection of Flatbush and New York Avenues. The train carried over 130 documents and flags in three exhibit cars, including the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation. Although over 150,000 people showed up to see the precious documents of American history, only 11,000 were able to tour the cars. The Freedom Train also stopped at Grand Central Terminal, the LIRR’s Jamaica station, and the New Haven Railroad’s Van Nest station in the Bronx (just east of Unionport Road).

Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 28, 1947 (BRIAN MERLIS Collection/oldNYCphotos.com)