SPOTLIGHT PHOTOS

 Having so many neat photos scattered over all these 500+ pages on this websight, and with new ones arriving and being found from all over, I hit upon the brainstorm that it might be nice to single one out from time to time. And it will also call attention to a specific part of the websight that has grown far past what I ever thought it would. So this page will be often updated , but not on any specific schedule. When it is, the date will change on main menu. Former photos are archived below with a quick link to them.

 

 

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.

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GOT PHOTOS????

If you have some photos that are relevant to anything on this websight and would like to share them, then please get in touch. Condition is not important as I can restore them. Several I am actively seeking are: Bob DeCordova's Service Station (Aspen & Whiitier), Fannie's Spaghetti House (on Diana Dr.) Birdsall Hardware , The Stop & Shop, Jean's, HC Grand 5&10 cent store and of course it goes without saying ANY OF THE KNAPP MANSION AND ESTATE INTERIOR OR EXTERIOR!

SPOTLIGHT PHOTO ARCHIVES

LILLY SUTTER WAS HERE

FORGE RIVER DAM 1905

IT'S BONNEY

MASTIC BEACH YACHT CLUB 1930's

MASTIC BEACH KNAPP MANSION 1929

ST. JUDES 1930s

CENTER MORICHES PARADE

MORNING WORKOUT

JOHN & CORNELIA

MAKIN' MUSIC AT WILLIAM FLOYD

GRANDPA'S FAMOUS FRIENDS

WHAT WAS IT?

HOUSE OF GIFTS

STOP AND SHOP

OCEAN AV PATCHOGUE

PARR FOR THE COURSE

ONE RIOT ONE RANGER

BAYVIEW DR

THE CENTER OF TOWN 1940's

EXTRA KOZY KORNER

Meet "Mr. Mastics"

Sheeps' Pen Creek Mastic Beach

Old Mill Stream

Beach 3n1

Yo Georgie

The North Side

A Day At The Beach

Ella Dana

Moriches Garage

Poje's

Out In The Sticks

The Boys Of Summer

Masury It's Good Paint

Ward's General Store

Lady On The Dock

"Contact" E. K. Jaquith

The Original Knapp Mansion

Yankee Doodle Went To Town

West Lake Mastic 1920's

Izzy's

Before It Was Dick's

Let's Do Lunch

Bartys & The Sugar Bowl

Grandma Ennesser's House

Say Grace

Chipping In For Gas 1964

Patchogue 1950

Greetings From Mastic Beach 1944

Nick Chapman / Rowdy Racer

Dick's

Siriani's Mastic Beach Deli

Four Aces & A Queen

Dodge City (Patchogue) & Dodgers (Shirley)

Mystery Man & Lagumis Liquors

updated 6/1 My Barber Vinny

Dana's / Mastic Beach Property Owners Assn. Dock updated

Dana's Grey Cliffs

Sunday...Monday

"Up On The Roof"

"If You Can't Land Her On The Old Verandah"

Winter In Moriches 1900

Merritt and Adelaide Penney (Claire Knapp's In Laws)

Suddenly It's 1961 or '62

Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt & The Dana Estate

Mastic Park General Store & 1938 ADVERT

Up The Unkechogue

Windmills & Watertowers

Here's Hannah

Chester's Store Mastic Beach 1940

Sailors & Soldiers Home At Smith Point 1919

A Tale Of Two Towns Patchogue & Center Moriches

Who Let Them In Here?

Summer Place

Big Fat Slob Hemingway

Will's Road On Floyd Estate

Flyboy Jacque Chapman

Smith Point Landing & Tangier Bridge

Big J F K

Graduation At William Floyd School 1953

Big BOOM

Mr. Dionisios 8th Grade @ Wm Floyd School 1957

Mastic Acres Beach Pavillion 1950

Dana's Hacker & A Day At The Races (updated)

Floyd Fields

Neighborhood Creek 1930's

Fill It With High Test?

Tangier "Smith Point" Bridge 1914

Tangier Billboard In Times Square 1910

Dana's "Moss Lots" On Forge River 1910

Floyd Parkway 1963 updated 12/04

Unkechogue Creek & Manor House

Duke & Benny MAY 22 1957

Whiskey For My Men & Beer For My Horses !

Fabulous DiPierro Sisters

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