{"id":49045,"date":"2021-08-13T04:05:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T01:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=49045"},"modified":"2021-08-13T04:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T01:05:58","slug":"montague-street-branch-of-the-brooklyn-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/montague-street-branch-of-the-brooklyn-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Montague Street branch of the Brooklyn Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Archive has a new pictorial map of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanarchive.org\/stories\/xJDaftXXHq8\">&#8220;Amusements, Movies, and the Great Outdoors: Summertime Fun with H.P. Lovecraft&#8221;<\/a> in New York City. Including a picture of the Montague Street branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. <\/p>\n<p>I went looking for more of this library branch, and found an evocative picture of the entrance. The exterior book and magazine stand, seen outside, was probably not selling the library&#8217;s discards. Since a memoir of a Brooklyn boyhood states that the library rigorously removed all dust-jackets and other attractive elements &mdash; placing its books into a severe uniform binding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mont-st-brooklyn-public-lib-exterior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mont-st-brooklyn-public-lib-exterior.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"421\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49049\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mont-st-brooklyn-public-lib-interior-reading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mont-st-brooklyn-public-lib-interior-reading.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"310\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49047\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mont-st-brooklyn-public-lib-interior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/mont-st-brooklyn-public-lib-interior.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"311\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-49048\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the 1925 telegraphic diary, 2nd February&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[With] CME &amp; GK to Taormina [restaurant] and Montague St. \u2014 meet SL in subway \u2014 Idol<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Archive has a new pictorial map of &#8220;Amusements, Movies, and the Great Outdoors: Summertime Fun with H.P. Lovecraft&#8221; in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/08\/13\/montague-street-branch-of-the-brooklyn-public-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}