Flashback Friday: Tug O’ War

It was a fight to the finish in the Prospect Park’s Long Meadow. And Flatbush got the best of Bay Ridge in a tug o’ war during day camp.

Taken in 1954, the photo caption reads: “Flatbush vanquishes Bay Ridge — The strongest arms in Flatbush, at least among 10-year-olds, pulled the best of Bay Ridge, left, over the line to defeat at the tug of war held in the Prospect Park Meadows, one of the high points of the Brooklyn-Queens Y. M. C. A. annual day camp field day.”

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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