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

May 24th, 2010
by Frank.

Utica Avenue © Vincenzo Aiosa

Posted in: East Flatbush, Old Telephone Exchanges, Photography, Real Estate.

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7 Comments

  1. Lisanne! says:
    May 24, 2010 at 12:30 am

    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:
      May 24, 2010 at 3:56 am

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

    2. fadingad says:
      May 24, 2010 at 3:57 am

      Love your flickr site!

  2. Lisanne! says:
    May 24, 2010 at 5:29 am

    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. Bruce R. Gilson says:
    September 11, 2010 at 12:45 am

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

    1. fadingad says:
      September 11, 2010 at 3:28 am

      http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SIGNS/garynumbers/numbers.html

  4. fadingad says:
    September 11, 2010 at 3:26 am

    Well then there you have it Bruce! Thank you.