1890 - 1990 anniversary and still counting...
Symbolically 1890 is the first known artifact of 71 Montrose Avenue. Here in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle it is listed as a place to vote. As its hundred-year anniversary, from 1990 onward I ran various businesses from woodworking to renovating vintage motorhomes and trailers. See PostScript below what the bones of this historic building has to say about 1930 - 2030 era…
Postscript
The industrial found artifact glove has deep and profound meaning for me, as the next caretaker of the Montrose smoked fish facility. It's how the meaning of work is so enmeshed in my identity. From 1990 onward I ran an amazing wood shop which did work at the Guggenheim Museum, Ellis Island Museum, the French Culinary Institute/International Culinary Center and various restaurants. We also renovated and restored vintage motorhomes and trailers here at our Montrose Avenue facility. See the New York Times article “Brooklyn Takes a Wide Turn”. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/25/garden/home-away-from-home-with-andre-van-hoek-a-life-in-brooklyn-takes-a-wide-turn.html
Views of vintage motorhomes see:
http://www.retrofuturistic.com/
A 1930 bad boy history to an almost a hundred year anniversary 2030 and social commentary of how far we have yet to go. Food racketeering, selling cottonseed oil as olive oil, overcharging customers, going to jail even blaming a front page fire on burglars... There is one Stellar truth. As per the dealers at probe charge racket 1930 article, if you go to court and "inability to remember important details concerning his work..." "Unable to remember even his own handwriting..." the court even in this bad boy era will make you pay $100 fine. Currently, we've lost this ethical standard. (Bad Boy History Link)