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Trolley cars on Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues, ca. 1905.

Derby Liquors, the Jentz Luncheonette, and the U.S. Army Recruiting Station no longer hold down this corner of the Junction, having been replaced by a Porta Bella menswear store on the Nostrand side, and by Rite Aid, Foot Locker, and Subway on…

The Junction Bar and Shanahan’s Café were popular hangouts on Flatbush Avenue. Both bars had entrances on Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues, and the Pizza & Salad shop that today occupies the spot where Shanahan’s stood into the 1980’s still has an…

Demonstration at the Woolworth Store on Flatbush Avenue, looking north from Hillel Place.

Close-up view of the Junction, looking north.

Aerial view of the Junction, ca. 1954. Germania Place is on the lower left (with the millinery shop on the corner), Flatbush Avenue runs diagonally from left to right, and Nostrand Avenue runs from the upper right to the bottom center of the image.

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.

Looking north on Flatbush Avenue. Avenue H crosses the image horizontally – the College theater is visible on the left.

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.

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…