Brooklyn & Queens Transit
This photo depicts a Witt 8453 at end of Richmond Hill Line on Myrtle Ave just before it merges into Jamaica Ave in Richmond Hill, Queens. It is circa 1939 by look of marquee of RKO Richmond Hill Theater on Hillside Avenue beyond car at right of photo. To the immediate left, not shown was the Triangle Hofbrau Restaurant, a former hotel and stage stop dating from the 1840s that had several identities over the years. This area is known as the "Triangle". The car is stopped because another is up ahead just before end of track on a stub with switchback which permits cars to swing right and go back out Myrtle through Forest Park to Glendale and then to Ridgewood car barn and El near the Ridgewood Theater. The Keiths Richmond Hill is an old Vaudeville House that suceesively became a Keith Albee, then a Keith Albee Orpheum Circuit House before becoming an RKO Theater when KAO and RCA and Joe Kennedy merged to form RKO in 1929 and made "Talkies" and needed Theater outlets for the product.
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