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Real Estate Telephone Exchange – Clarendon 8 – East Flatbush, Brooklyn

Utica Avenue © Vincenzo Aiosa

7 Comments

  1. Lisanne! says:

    Oh, air conditioning! The design suggests early 50s to me. It’s too bad that the identifier company name (or the name of building they are renting) had been posted over.

    1. fadingad says:

      Could be early 60s as well. The old exchanges were used until the early 70s.

    2. fadingad says:

      Love your flickr site!

  2. Lisanne! says:

    Thank you Frank.

    I remember that air conditioning was still a selling point in the early sixties, and some of the apartment houses in East Flatbush date from that time.

  3. “Clarendon 8”? There never was such an exchange. The sign has CL. 8 which would have been CLoverdale 8, in fact.

  4. fadingad says:

    Well then there you have it Bruce! Thank you.