About This Item

  • TitleMemories of the old Hippodrome
  • Call NumberCHUR_0831
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummarySeven young women wearing cocktail dresses (four sitting on piano, three standing) and one young man wearing straw hat sitting at, and playing, piano. Caption: "Memories of the old Hippodrome, Winter Garden, Palace, Colinial and Oscar Hammerstein's were revived in a show in St. Michael's Hall, 43d St. and 4th Ave. ... There were many cuties in the cast, among them Joan Patterson, Marge Orrio, Diane Marisi, Careline Marisi, Mary Politano, Mary Shanley and Peggy Stadter. ... Al Delurey presided at the piano."
  • Date1951
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Jun[e] 4, 1951; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectSaint Michael's Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.) ; Church entertainments
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Sunset Park (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.