About This Item

  • TitleMatchbook from Munster Bar, Park Slope, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Call NumberOSOS_0160
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMatchbook. Front: Munster Bar, 375 9th St., Brooklyn, N.Y., back: Oldest in the Slope. Donor note: My great uncle Bud O'Connor's bar, the Munster. The bar was previously named O'Rourke's. When my uncle bought the bar he named it for the bar he had in Ireland where he was from. It was the oldest bar in Park Slope. It closed in the early 1980s.
  • Date[between 1960 and 1983?]
  • Formattext
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, TIFF, color
  • Genrematchbooks
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Date supplied by donor. Original photograph digitized on November 30, 2015 as a TIFF. Donated for capture by Michael Schwartz at Saint Saviour Catholic Academy. Collected through the Our Streets, Our Stories community heritage project, a part of the Culture in Transit grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge.
  • Creator[unknown]
  • SubjectBars (drinking establishments) ; Matchbooks
  • CollectionOur Streets, Our Stories collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Park Slope (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.