...gunsmith shops on Center Market Place in the Little Italy section of New York City in the late 1930s...the man with the camera was a famous photographer named WeeGee...he lived in the apartment above the sign and used it as a vantage point for street scene photos...











...photo of the buildings now...

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Have anything like that today, and some idjets would have a heart attack.

Read this article about the gun shops there. Being right across from the back door of the old NYPD HQ made it the ideal location. I have an old 1915 NYPD Colt PP that lettered to Audley which at the time was located at 8 Centre Market Place.

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York: Guns of Centre Market

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Anybody else remember the Iver Johnson retail sporting goods store in downtown Boston in the 1950s, with a big, gilded shotgun hanging outside it?

I have been in the H H Harris store in Chicago one of the largest S&W distributors of the time, very near CPD headquarters. There was no sign that I remember.

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