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# Flashback Friday: Snowy 50s Christmas
- URL: https://bklyner.com/flashback-friday-snowy-50s-christmas-parkslopestoop/
- Published: 2015-12-11T17:29:17.000Z
- Updated: 2015-12-11T17:29:17.000Z
- Author: Donny Levit
- Tags: history, Nonsponsored, North Western Brooklyn, Park Slope, brooklyn eagle, Brooklyn Public Library, flashback friday, #wp

![Christmas Tree 1950s](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/christmas-tree-gap-702x547.jpg)

Photo via [Brooklyn Public Library](http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search/c?SEARCH=NEIG+1340&ref=bklyner.com)

Grand Army Plaza sported a Christmas tree during a snowy Christmas in the 1950s.

Taken in 195-?, the photo caption reads: “Christmas tree with decorations on raised and festooned platform at Grand Army Plaza; Memorial Arch, Bailey Fountain, and tree line of Prospect Park in background; portion of Brooklyn Public Library in left background; snow-covered ground in foreground.”

The image is part of the [Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library](http://www.bklynlibrary.org/brooklyncollection?ref=bklyner.com), and you can find more historic images like this one there or through[ Brooklyn Visual Heritage](http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/?ref=bklyner.com). The original source is from The [Brooklyn Daily Eagle](http://www.brooklyneagle.com/?ref=bklyner.com).

Do you have any interesting old photos of Park Slope? Share them with us at [editor@bklyner.com](mailto:editor@bklyner.com)!