2 options
When Brooklyn was the world, 1920-1957 / by Elliot Willensky.
LIBRA - Rare F129.B7 W58 1986 Potok copy
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Willensky, Elliot.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- New York (N.Y.)--History.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Description and travel--Views.
- New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel--Views.
- Views.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (inscription) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (inscription) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harmony Books [a division of Crown Publishers, Inc.], [1986]
- Summary:
- With a brilliant, entertaining text and hundreds of exciting, nostalgic photographs, 'When Brooklyn Was the World' recovers the history of this lively city, as remembered by the millions of people who knew Brooklyn in its golden era.
- Contents:
- Are you really from Brooklyn?
- What kind of place was it?
- How did it get that way?
- It was certainly changing
- The Culver, the Sea Beach, the Canarsie Line
- They came from everywhere
- Mine was the best block
- Aw, Ma, I don't wanna go
- A place of coal smoke and ashes
- Walk us to the store
- Chickee-d'cops!
- Today's a day for the beach
- Let's eat out t'night
- Don't talk chum-chew Topps gum
- You shoulda been here when ...
- Lend me ya car!
- Notes:
- "For Brooklyn, the years 1920 through 1957 represent a kind of golden age."--Introduction.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy inscribed "4/90 Dear Chaim and Adena - Thank you for a wonderful pesach seder! I hope you enjoy this slice of history! Signed [Jan or Jen?].
- Potok Collection copy is "4" printing.
- ISBN:
- 0517558580 :
- OCLC:
- 11812485
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.