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Flatbush and Church in 1940

The Flatbush & Church area as it was in 1940 Block-by-block and store-by-store from Caton Avenue to Cortelyou Road Flatbush & Church was the Center of My Universe for about five of my late teen years in the 1960s. Not a very long time, but an important time and important part of growing up. It was the heart of Flatbush. My high school, Erasmus Hall High School, Garfield's Cafeteria, Jahn's Ice Cream Parlor, four major movie palaces and one little art house movie right next to Erasmus, Costello's bar, Diplomat Lanes, Spinelli's pool room, Joy King Chinese restaurant, also known as Kee’s, the steps of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church where hundreds of kids would be hanging out, and East 21st street right off church behind the church graveyard. This was all within a few blocks of each other. With the release of possibly hundreds of thousands of tax photos of a majority of New York City buildings in 1940, it became possible to piece together the area of Flatbush Avenue and its intersecting Church Avenue as they were in 1940. I did not expect to see many, if any, stores that were around today, but I thought there might be more than just a small token of them that were still around in 1965 or so. Just as 1965 is a whole different world from today, 53 years later, so it was just as different from 1940, just 25 years before. Although only a handful of businesses that were around in 1940 made it to 1965, let alone 2018, there is one constant that has survived today from 1940 and that is the buildings themselves. Probably 95% or maybe more of the buildings that we see in 1940 are still there today. According to the notes that came with the tax photos, most of the buildings were built in the early 1930s. So for the 1940 people, these buildings were almost new, less than ten years old. It would be as if we were walking 2018 streets and all the buildings housing stores were built in 2008. I don’t know how many iterations some of these stores went through over the years. Perhaps 20 or more for some of them. Some may have had just a few – maybe the original owners kept it until they retired and were unable to pass the business on to another so the new owners started something new. The types of stores we see also seem like another world. I didn't actually count, but there must have been about 10 different stores whose main business was selling hats. There was even one specialty hat cleaning store. Fashion was very prominent then, too. I noted one man wearing a suit while walking his dog. I also counted three Ebinger's bakeries on our short walk around the area, and that isn't even counting the main Ebinger's plant on Albemarle Road. I don’t know what purpose it would serve to point out that we are also looking at a city of the dead or that the high school students we see in the pics would be 95 or so today, although I did note on one pic that a baby in a carriage would be 79 years old today. It’s just that after looking at all those pics, thoughts like that come up. The slide show video is almost 22 minutes long and you also may want to pause it a few times to take in some of the details or read the various notes on the year 1940 that I inserted throughout, so sit back and let's take a trip back to 1940 now and see all the nuances that you notice.