Brook Ave - Meadowbrook Neighborhood

These Brook Avenue photographs are some of the same images that were printed in the newspaper to promote "recent" (all pre-war) sales of the neighborhood.  Not all of the images that were printed in the newspaper are here, but to receive just some (over 50!!) of these amazing images detailing the early days of neighborhood landscape almost 80 years after the passing of George E. T. Wells, the architect and President of Meadowbrook Inc., and directly from his family, is a gift in of itself. 
Thank you again !!   

Here is an example showing the photograph first vs what was printed in the newspaper along with the caption about the sale.  The difference in definition is incredible, be sure to click to view larger.

 

And here is a snip of what it looked like, highlighted in yellow, within the newspaper columns ....

And here is one more of the original photo vs the newspaper printed version ....

Same street, but we don't have original photos of these 3 unfortunately:

The first two streets were officially accepted in this 6 Feb 1937 news snippet:

Also I've mentioned it before, but the trees... wow, they were so young!
Comparing photos to those existing trees in the neighborhood today, you're literally seeing what 85 years of value looks like to beautify a neighborhood. 
Please consider planting one for future generations to enjoy.