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1940s PARKCHESTER PROMO ADV'G. BROCHURE PLANNED COMMUNITY NEW YORK PHOTOS. Here is a fascinating, exceedingly scarce, fold out pictorial brochure promoting parkchester, a completely planned community built, owned, and operated by the metropolitan Life insurance Company in New York city. This fascinating fold-out brochure with six panels, two-sided, the size of a map, promotional brochure describing this new planned community in the borough of the bronx, new york, is a fascinating look into the early days of planned communities, socialist State demographics, and how life insurance companies got involved in building and community planning. This fascinating pictorial brochure reflects aging use, but has phenomenal images of what New York city, particularly the bronx, look like in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. How this pictorial advertising brochure found its way from New York City to the center of Illinois is a complete mystery, but it is a fascinating look into the allure of New York City especially in the 1930s and 1940s. Please review photos. The brochure does reflect age, soiling, and a seam split, especially in the description of the location of parkchester in the Bronx coming to york. A good indication of how old this brochure is is advertising of rentals including gas and electricity two rooms from 32 to a month to five rooms for 63 to a month, including utilities, and that Parkchester is a 30 minute subway ride from midtown via Pelham Bay division, I R.T. Lexington Avenue line to 177th street, "parkchester" station. Please review photos. Neat vintage parkchester planned community advertising pictorial promotional brochure, which will make a terrific addition to your early New York City related advertising or promotional literature collection, tourism related or relocation or settlement related East Coast document history memorabilia collection, or classic early mid-century related home planning or community planning memorabilia collection.
