and the history continues...
At Bay 20th, heading southeast, we begin to see a number of distinctive multifamily buildings from the 1920s and 1930s on Cropsey. This one has contrasting rectangular and arched windows and long, thin bricks in contrasting colors. Nice! That car service sign, though, has to go.
Between Bay 20th and 19th Avenue is a handsome set of attached apartments with bay fronts, the better to let a lot of light in, and huge lintels over the windows. The one on the left has an older stair railing which may be the original.
At 19th Avenue is one of the original octagonal poles that was installed in the early 1950s. How can you tell? Very simple: the metal cap on the top of the shaft is quite small and adheres tightly to the shaft. Later poles’ caps were larger.
In addition, I am aware that originally these posts used curved-masted shafts, likely with a Westinghouse AK10 “cuplight” luminaire.
