Flashback Friday: Trio Nabbed At Bar Brawl

This image was taken in a precinct house after three adolescent boys cut a bartender with a piece of broken glass after being refused service at Kerrigan’s Bar in Park Slope way back on October 9, 1954. Original caption: “Trio Nabbed In Bar Brawl.”

L-R: James Blatz, 19, of 343 15th St.; Patrick McCarthy, 18, of 477 17th St., and Alexander McNeill, 17, of 488 7th Ave. In rear are arresting officers, Patrolmen Frank Ventimiglia and Frank Falatico.

The image is part of the Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library and you can find more historic images like this one there or through Brooklyn Visual Heritage. The photo originally ran in the Brooklyn Eagle.

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