FACES & PLACES II

 

Jan. 20, 1961 - John F. Kennedy's Inaugaration Day

The snow was at the top of our fence. Floyd was shut down for over a week.

 

Butch in our room, later that day.

 

SOUTHAMPTON, SUMMER 1960

At The Henry Clark Museum about a week before I became a freshman at Floyd.

The car is a '32 Lincoln

 

1941 HUDSON COMMODORE

 

Our Ten Year Old '41 Hudson

in the driveway in 1951 on McKinley Drive

Notice the woods across the street...............

 

These are those same woods in 2002, but it's not the first time they were bulldozed. The first time was a year or so after the Hudson photo was taken. The old Hickory trees, that are in a diagonal line were spared twice. Our summer neighbor, Mr. Yodice had originally cleared the lot so he could have a place for all his relatives to park their cars on weekends. The Yodice's would host up to 50 people at their house back then. We used the lot for a baseball field in the spring and fall. Al Picarelli, Tommy Coyle, Paul McCormick, Jerry Savarese, Doug Percoco, The Schulz Brothers all played ball in it. One of the Yodice girls married a DeCarlo of Polly O Cheese Distributors and they were living in the Yodice house when we left Mastic Beach in '64. Over the years the woods grew back, and I forgot about the trees, we used to climb as kids. This past January, once again I saw the long forgotton old Hickory trees . but I looked at them a little differently this time because of this part of a 1926 land survey I discovered this past year.

 

That Hickory Tree was used as a boundary marker for the Knapp Estate and the First Section of Mastic Beach . Our house, the Yodices, and the Dennings were among the many that would be constructed on Knapp's land after 1938. Elm Road would continue westward across Knapp's Estate. Dell & Elfin ended in the woods and never did.

The Dennings who used Dell Place for a driveway, were the first "summer friends" we met in 1950.

This is their former bungalow today.

 

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