Gala opening

Gala opening
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Title: Gala opening
Description:

Four men in suits standing inside of open doors at ribbon cutting ceremony; crowd of onlookers behind them. Caption: "GALA OPENING: City Council President Abe Stark cuts tape at opening of Mays Department Store, Bond and Fulton Sts., as Joe Weinstein, right, board chairman, and Max L. Shulman, president, left, and Mario Remo, vice president of the store, look on. Thousands jammed nearby streets at the opening."

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Geller, Jules.
More Details: Title from caption on verso.
On verso: date stamped: Aug. 26, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
Collection: Department Stores
Subject: Department stores
Department stores
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Building dedications
Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: DEPT 0091