MONTAUK HIGHWAY aka "THE SUNRISE TRAIL"
At The Twin Ponds on the Mastic & Moriches Border 1922
In 1922 The Home Gaurdian Company owned by the Smadbeck Brothers , started their first development in Mastic Moriches area. They called it Mastic Park and would follow up 4 years later when they bought the Woodhull Estate
a few miles south and started Mastic Beach. But the Park came first. That touring car most likely belongs to their property sales manager Charles Ammon, seen here at the Mastic Park sign but it coud also be Warren Smadbeck's Fiat?
"Mastic Park Lake" obviously named by the developers, became known as The Twin Ponds and are at the headwaters of the Forge River also once known as The Mastic River in the 19th century.
BETTY'S CRYSTAL PARADISE
Mastic NY
This is another real rare one folks. Anyone out there remembers this place?
I'm not sure how long it was called The Crystal Paradise , but I remember having my very first pizza in it around 1950 - 51, when it bcame Tony Bonjovi's BLUE LANTERN on Montauk Hwy & Midland Ave. It remained the Blue Lantern through the '50s & '60s and disappeared from the Mastic landscape in the 1970s. This photo was taken in January of 1945. The lady in the pic is none other than Estelle Parr, who would become Mrs. David Schulz about a year later and mother to Larry & Dennis Schulz.
