THE MASTICS ... From Blueblood to Bluecollar
Part Three
Of A Trilogy
This story,
project, odyssey or call it what you will, started with a little
story "The Mansion" about a big house that was in my
backyard in Mastic Beach during the 1950's. It is part of a collection
of short stories I have written under the title of
"Buzz & Pee Wee Butchie & Me"
From there
I have gone into a much deeper story "The
Knapps Lived Here" about the Knapp family who owned that
big house, long before I got there and what their lives and the
lives of the few others that lived in the Mastic area must of
been like. That has also led me to discover a deeper history that
existed on the neck known as Mastick going back to the beginnings
of America.
Which has
led me to start working on a third project that sometimes overlaps
with the other two but seems very worthy of it's own story. So
although some of the links that appear on this page overlap with
the others, what we will have here is strictly links that apply
to the Mastic Area. A neck of land on the South Shore of Long
Island that is bordered on the west by the Connecticut or Carmens
River , on the South by the Narrow Bay and the east by the Mastick
or Forge River
Note: THE OLD DEAD LINKS ARE ALL REPAIRED AS OF JAN 2011
BROOKLYN CITIZEN 1926
OLD MASTIC AREA PHOTOS
MORE OLD MASTIC AREA PHOTOS
THE MAP ROOM
LAST LOOK
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLY BUT A BIGGER ONE GROWS IN MASTIC BEACH
MORE MASTIC BEACH PIONEERS
1938 MASTIC BEACH DIRECTORY UPDATED
1929 EXHIBIT A
MAIL FROM MASTIC BEACH '44
THIS JUST IN!
THE "SECRET" POND
JUNE 30 1938 AERIAL VIEWS MASTIC BEACH
SOMEWHERE IN MASTIC 1940
BEFORE IT WAS DICK'S
KNAPP ROAD T SHIRTS
HAMLET OF MASTIC JUNE 1900
"GRANDMA ENNESSER'S HOUSE"
THE BARTYS & THE SUGAR BOWL
GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
MASTIC BEACH SCHWINN
MASTIC FIRE DEPARTMENT 1926
CHIPPIN' IN FOR GAS
Wm FLOYD SCHOOL : MORE EARLY YEARS
HISTORIC HOMESTEADS ON MASTIC NECK
DATELINE OLD MASTIC
NEW FOLKS IN OLD MASTIC
BUCK DANA'S COTTAGE
THE MASTICS IN 1934
MEMORIAL DAY IN MASTIC BEACH
"IT'S A BEAUTIFUL LIFE"
GEORGE TZOUCALIS M. B. PIONEER
"4 ACES & A QUEEN"
SECTION TWO OF MASTIC BEACH
COLORFUL TANGIER, L.I
TANGIER BRIDGE
PARADE DAYS IN MB 1959 & 1965
SCENES AROUND TOWN
MASTIC BEACH TOWN TODAY
" IZZY'S "
WEST LAKE MASTIC 1920's
EMILIE MUSE
REV. JOHN P. SKELLY
ELLA DANA
SHEEP'S PEN CREEK
MAKING MOVIES AT SMITH POINT
PHYLLIS' PHOTOS
1930 AERIAL PHOTOS
MAGNOLIA OR LOCUST DRIVE CIRCA 1920's
SCHLUDERS TWIN PONDS REST
WATCHING THE FORD GO BY
MASTIC ACRES 1949
D & M MARKET MASTIC
MORE EARLY WM FLOYD PICS
SGT BILL BAESSLER
ORIGINAL KOZY KORNER
NEW VIEWS OF OLD MASTIC
LONG OVERDUE
KNAPP ESTATE FIRE OF 1924
SUN SETS ON SCHULTE'S
BAYVIEW DRIVE
SHIRLEY POLICE
MOSS LOTS BURNS DOWN
MORE EARLY FLOYD PICS 1950's
ARTHUR BAKER PENNEY
PARR's FIRST STATION
MOTORING AROUND MASTIC
MORE MASTIC BEACH PHOTOS 1950's
THE WHITE STALLION REST
THE STOP & SHOP
HOUSE OF GIFTS
CLAIRE A. KNAPP IN MASTIC 1922
THE FUCHS FAMILY
OLDEST SCHOOL IN MASTIC
SAM COLE
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
RETURN TO TANGIER
FLOYDS & SMITHS
FORGE RIVER 1909
MAKIN' MUSIC AT FLOYD HIGH SCHOOL 1976
JOHN & CORNELIA
EGBERT T. SMITH GOES WEST
MORNING WORKOUT AT SMITH'S POINT
THAT'S HISTORY M B DIVIDED BEFORE WW2
MASTIC BEACH KNAPP MANSION INSIDE & OUT 1955
and there's even more stuff archived here
