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On Monday, blogger 423 Smith posted this photo showing what Smith Street looked like in its pre-Restaurant Row splendor. Back in 1930, when this photo was taken, there was a grocery/soda fountain spot on the ground floor of Number 423; meanwhile, the blog points out, the elevated subway was in the process of being built. Does anyone know what year it was completed?
423 Smith Circa 1930 [423 Smith]


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  1. i like quite a few of the smith street restaurants, but everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.
    for those of you who think the food in carroll gardens is sub par, what would you recommend instead?

  2. Dear GG Rider,
    I don’t know if there is a moral.
    It is a true story.
    Maybe someone will suck the marrow out of the story and have a univeral aha, but I don’t think so. I have seen some very nasty moves in the last five, ten years. Every now and then, things work
    out just as they should. The most important thing to these kids is there
    net worth. Well, the times they are a changing.
    Barney,The Old Realtor