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Listen to the late Joseph Boslet Jr., interviewed by Isabel
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as he reminisces about old Syosset.
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In 1924, Syosset had a
population of 1,435. "This scattered community is located in the
midst of a fine farming country and the land is the most fertile land in
Nassau County.To the north of the station and on the wooded
hills many luxurious country homes have been built.While Syosset
at the present time is not developed very extensively in the way of suburban
homes, that is accounted for by the fact that the farmland is too valuable to
be disposed of for development purposes, but it is only a question of time
when it will be transposed into a beautiful home community—the natural
beauty of the country in this section making it ideal for this purpose.The village now has a Union Church, two schools, motorized fire department,
macadam roads, and electric light." Long Island, The Sunrise
Homeland, 1926
Listen to Joseph Boslet talk
about Syosset; click here: About
Syosset
William J. Knettel, Florist, c. 1899
Mr. Knettel is on left. (photo by
George Edward VanSise; postcard courtesy of Leone Knettel Taylor)
July 1909 Advertisement (image
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Yanke Spreer's Hotel 1904
Spreer's Hotel later,
still early 1900s (photo courtesy of Tom
Montalbano)
Listen to Joseph Boslet talk about the old hotel; click here:
Early
Hotel
Left, aerial view of Syosset,
early 1900s
(photo from Frederick Ruther, Long Island To-Day, 1909)
Center and right, early generic postcards: "Greetings from Syosset, LI"
Generic postcard; scene is not
Syosset
Generic postcard; scene is not
Syosset
Looking north on Jackson Avenue, late 1800s
On the right is Devine Bros. General Store, which later became May's Corner.
Looking north
(image courtesy of Don Karas)
A 1908 view of the Devine Bros. General
Store
(image courtesy of Don Karas)
May's Corner, Jackson
Avenue and Convent Road;
general store operated by Theodore and Georgiana May
from the early 20th century to c. 1940
later Moran and Kyle's Syosset Inn, 1940s; Kyle and Moran's, 1950s
Mr. May's sister was Flora May VanSise, wife of S. Franklin VanSise, of
VanSise Farms.
(postcard courtesy of Diane Oley)
St. Mary of the Angels
Home on Convent Road, founded 1894
Letter
from St. Mary's to Roulston's Grocery Store, Jackson Ave., Feb. 11, 1946,
probably containing an order (image
by Tom Montalbano)
Monument
at St. Mary's, dedicated to the memory of Agnes Koehler,1988
The Schenck cemetery behind St. Mary's, 2002
The center stone reads: "Nelson Schenck, Died July 23, 1852,
Age 19 yrs, 2 mos, 7days."
Right, a partial rendering: "...And hope you'll comfort
him..."
There were forty-four burials from 1821 to
1897, including members of the Schenck , Baldwin, Ellison, Lewis,
Marshall, McElvey, Van Sise and Wanser families.
(photos
by Tom Montalbano)
Schenck cemetery tombstone inscriptions compiled by Raymond Burckley
(courtesy of Ronald Burckley)
The Cheshire family cemetery on Ira Road,
2001 and 2003
Located on the farm of Albert Cheshire, there were twelve burials from
1852 to 1897, including members of the Cheshire, Bedell, Schenck and
Wood families. Funerals proceeded along a path from Cold
Spring Road to what later became Ira Road and Miller Boulevard.Clearly displayed on a 1939 map, straight walking access on this
route was possible until 1951 when the Miller homes were constructed.
Jericho Turnpike,
early 1900s (from Frederick Ruther, Long Island To-Day, 1909)
Baylis and Sons general
store and post office, Woodbury Road
left 1904; right, c. 1910s
It is still standing at 300 Woodbury Road.
J. Irving Baylis established the store in April of 1887 with an
inheritance of $160. He was 17 at the time and had been working
for three years (fourteen hours a day/six days a week) as an apprentice
in a Huntington grocery store for a salary of $8 a month plus board.
In the earliest days of the J. I. Baylis General Store, two loaves of
bread cost 13 cents, a pound of coffee 14 cents, and a dozen eggs 24
cents. Postal historians state that the building on Woodbury Road
in which the store operated had served as a post office in the 1700's.
During his run as a storekeeper, Mr. Baylis also served as a postmaster.
Interviewed by the Syosset Advance in 1952, Mr. Baylis remarked
"The stock has changed some in 65 years and the prices, too.
You could really buy something for your money back then." He
continued, "There were no packaged goods. In the first
fifteen years, flour, sugar, coffee, tea, rice, corn meal, and molasses
all came in bulk. But groceries were not our biggest line then.
It was feed. This was dairy country back in those days.
Everyone had cows and horses and the big farmers all drove in to the
Wallabout Market in Brooklyn." Mr. Baylis went on to bemoan
the state of the business 65 years later. "There isn't much
business anymore. My old customers have died or moved away and the
young folks naturally go to the big towns to do their shopping.
But I'll stay in business. Guess I'd feel too strange after 65
years doing nothing."
(text and images courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Woodbury road in 1908 (image
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Vintage picture of the
house on Woodbury road
which may have been on the site of the current Woodbury Post Office (image
courtesy of Michael Gilks)
VanSise store in 1908,
north of the Split Rock-Berry Hill fork
It also housed the post office beginning in 1857. (photo
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Foley's Honey and Tar
cough medicine sample from the VanSise store, c. early 20th Century
Site of the VanSise store in 2008
(image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Looking north, c. 1913
The building on the right is the old Lang Hotel, in the triangle of what became
Jackson
Avenue and Cold Spring Road.
It was built c. 1824 when Syosset was known as Eastwoods.
In 1871, it was (Christian) Oberlander's Hotel. In
January 1871, the hotel bar was the scene of an argument
between a rich farmer, Garrett Wort Nostrand, and William Kelly, a
former Long Island Rail Road worker, and John H. Devine.
Nostrand's body was subsequently found near the hotel. According
to the New York Times,
Kelly and Devine were charged and convicted of the murder of Nostrand.
Revenge for Nostrand's causing Kelly to lose his job was apparently a motive.
They were sentenced to life in prison. In 1906, the elderly Kelly
was pardoned by the governor, when it was revealed that he did not strike the
fatal blow.
By 1873, the hotel housed the W. Horton store.Sebald
Lang acquired the 10 bedroom hotel in 1899;
by 1908 he had retired and his son Henry and daughter-in-law Susie were
in charge.
(thanks to Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski for alerting me to the New York
Times article)
Old carpenter shop,
pre-1915
The William Henry Horton (born c. 1814) carpenter shop around the turn
of the 19th century William’s son George was
also a carpenter. The shop is on an 1873 map and a 1914 map when the
Horton property (near what became Horton Place and Berry Hill Road) was
under the name of George’s daughter-in-law, Sybilla.Her husband, William, did not become a carpenter; he was a piano
tuner.
(photo by George Edward VanSise)
Wedding
c. 1916
Left, Helena Kwiatkowski, groom Kazmier Gurney (Gorny, Garney),
bride Josephine Kacmarska, Anna Petrowski;
Right, Anna Petrowski and unidentified gentleman They are standing in front of what
was to become 14 Roosevelt Street (Avenue),
the site of Syosset's first library, the Kiwanis Community Library, in
1958.
(photos courtesy of the Wencko and Kwiatkowski families)
Wedding c. 1916
Anna Petrowski, unidentified, Josephine Gurney (Gorney, Garney),
Mary S. (nee Bagenski) Wencko Queens Street is in back of
them and Roosevelt Street (Avenue) is to the left.
The corner behind
this group would be where the Syosset Post Office is today. (photo courtesy of the
Wencko and Kwiatkowski families)
Gathering
Lonny Brower and Daniel
Van Velsor, around 1917 (image
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Left,
W. Wilton Wood (lumber, lime, cement, farm tools), 110 Jackson Avenue The sterling silver shovel displayed was used by the Duke of Windsor to plant a tree on the Burden Estate, Muttontown Road, in 1924.
Right, 110 Jackson Ave in 2001
February 1924
Advertisement (image
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
W. Wilton Wood thermometer, c. 50s
United Rent-Alls, 1965
advertisement
110 Jackson Ave on Feb.
2, 2008
(images courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Handwritten on
back: "Syosset Well Drillers, Syosset, NY.
Method used by Sy
Well Drillers to create water
supply."
Syosset water tower,
Convent Road, late
1930s and 1964 When it was erected c. 1932, it was the world's second largest
water tower,
at 1,500,000-gallon capacity, supported
by 20 columns, 78 feet in diameter, and approximately 175 feet
high.
Mildred Knettel and Dot
VanSise, February 7, 1932
after purchasing their coats in New York City
The water tower is already up.
(image courtesy of Diane Oley)
Jericho Water
District structure, c. 1930s, adjacent to the tower,
now used for chemical storage
Pond on Cold
Spring Road early 1900s
(photo from Frederick Ruther, Long Island To-Day, 1909)
and in July, 2000
(referred to as both Cheshire and Pelican ponds)
Left, "The Lake, Syosset, Long Island" by George Edward
VanSise ("The Lake" could be the Schenck-Mann pond on Convent
Road);
Center, "The Pond,
Syosset, Long Island, N.Y.";
Right, "The Picturesque Pond, Syosset, Long Island, N.Y."
Another view of
"The Lake" by Van Sise which is likely the Schenck-Mann pond
on Convent Road
Pelican Pond, April
1955
(courtesy of Shirlee Sarver Iacono)
c. 1930: The
Clarence Van Cott farm
"...at the sharp
"S" curve on Split Rock Road, east side, before 25A.
Loaded for market with potatoes and cabbage. The truck has
solid rubber tires and no doors. The cow, horse, three men and
three bottles of beer. In 1930 Clarence would have been 28 years
old and I think he is the man in the middle."
Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski
(images courtesy of Mary Wencko Gaida)
VanSise Farms on South
Woods Road and Jericho Turnpike
On right, 1947, with owner S. Franklin VanSise and Darrin Marie Tollin,
grandniece of his wife, Flora May VanSise.
(image on right, courtesy of Karrin
Marie Tollin Werrenrath)
1930s: Left, downtown area;
Boslet's Restaurant is to the right of utility pole near the center of
picture; to the left is Thomas Roulston's Grocery Store and Janke's
Syosset Meat Market.
Center, view of town from the
railroad tracks; Right, Weinstock's "This is a picture of
the store where I bought these cards. The Honor Roll is right to
the left of the store. The main road through the village is to the
left too but you can't see any more of the stores in the
picture." Mildred Knettel Vanstane to her husband, Forrest
Vanstane, during World War II. (postcards
left and right, courtesy of Diane Vanstane Oley)
Advertisement for Janke's
Syosset Meat Market
January 1947 (image
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Looking north, c. 1907-1912
Junction of what became Split Rock and Berry Hill Roads photo by
George Edward VanSise
Junction of Split Rock and Berry Hill Roads, 1930s
Left and center: Syosset Memorial Park at
junction of Split Rock and Berry Hill Roads The park was dismantled in the 1940s; the World War I monument was
moved
and the cannon was sold for scrap metal.
Right: the monument, Memorial Day, 1959 (photo postcards left and center, courtesy of Leone Knettel
Taylor)
The World War I Memorial
2010
It's the original WWI memorial with a plaque added to honor the World
War II deceased.
(images courtesy of Brian Fitterman)
Article, 10/17/1917, about the dedication of the memorial, "Erected
in Honor of the Men Who Served in the Great War for
Democracy." It was unveiled by Leone Knettel and Adele Van
Sise.
(contributed by Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski)
1937: Leone Knettel and Evelyn (Evvie) Diel walking south on
Jackson Avenue
First anniversary of
Billy Dobbs and heiress Andrea Luckenbach, June 14, 1939
Local ice storm, March 4,
1940
(photos courtesy of Diane Oley)
The west side of Jackson
Avenue: Roulston's Grocery and Janke's Meat Market
Jackson Avenue, February
9, 1945
VIDEO CLIPS!
Three Video Clips from the Blizzard of
February 1945
Jackson Avenue, Doc Howard, Fred Maimone, Boslet's Restaurant, Charlie Diel.
Advertisements for Doc
Howard's Pharmacy
Left, 1947(not a thumbnail); right, 1952
(images courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Doc
Howard's Pharmacy match cover
The east side of Jackson
Avenue, 1937
Daniel Lynch's Berry
Hill Service Station, built in 1938
(photo on right, courtesy of Sally Anne Lynch)
Pencil from Berry Hill
Service Station
(courtesy of Sally Anne Lynch)
Left, the original Krebs and Schulz Syosset Garage, c. 1930s;
center, the new Krebs and Schulz Syosset Garage under
construction;
Right, the new Syosset Garage at night c. 1937
(center and right photos, courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Advertisements for
Syosset Garage
October 1947
(images courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Thermometer from the Syosset
Garage, c. 1950 (image courtesy of Larry Chernow)
Advertisements for Krebs
and Schulz, 1952
(images courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Advertisement for De Soto
at Krebs
and Schulz, 1952
(Image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
K&S (Krebs and
Schulz) Transportation Corp., advertisement, 1962
Al Peters' service
station, 7 Jackson Ave., c. 1950s
Group in
Syosset, c. 1940s
Left, Edward McAuliffe, second from left; far right, Joe Hines
Right, Edward McAuliffe. left; far right, Joe Hines
A man with two horses is
plowing to clear the property for building at
4 Walker Avenue in 1940. The road behind him is Jackson Avenue;
in the background is the Jackson Farms' potato field.
(photo courtesy of Douglas Baird)
Guests at Douglas Baird's birthday party
Picture taken in front of the Baird play house at 4 Walker Ave., 1945 or
1946
Front row: Robin Boslet, Jean Olsen from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn,
George Hvidsten, Douglas Baird;
Back row: Joyce Wicks, Ruth Monilaws, Robert Olsen from Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn (image courtesy of Douglas Baird)
Meadowbrook
Road, 1941: Nellie Nowak Boslet with carriage;
Berry Hill Road and Sparks' Woods are in the background.
Fred's Barber
Shop, est. 1939 Danny Pepe, Charlie Rella and Fred
Maimone
Fred Maimone in 1939
(Image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Fred's Barber
Shop, 1952 Advertisement
(Image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Another view of
Fred's
Tony Maimone, Fred's son,
at Fred's in 1984
(photo by Ken Spencer, The Newsday Magazine, May 6, 1984)
Fred's in
2000
(photo on left by Michael Mark)
Top and left, Rella's Produce Market,
1940, left, Gordon McAuliffe and Charlie Rella;
Center, Gordon and unidentified friend;
Right, Charlie Diehl, who was an integral part of the Syosset scene in
the '30s, '40s and '50s
Bank of Syosset (later became Hempstead Bank) under construction,
1942
Andrew Wencko's bankbook,
Bank of Syosset, c. 1930
(image courtesy of Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski)
Bank
of Syosset Advertisements
Above, 1947; below, 1952
(images courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Uprooted tree on
Muttontown Road 1944
Mr. James Devine, former postmaster, surveys some of the damage on
Muttontown Road in September
1944 after the Great Atlantic Hurricane swept through Long Island
Left,
looking northeast: Locust Grove School in lower right;
Dawes Ave. in foreground, then Beatrice Ave. and Albert Ave; c.
1945
Right, looking northwest: Locust Grove School, on Humphrey Drive,
lower left
Hicksville Air Park on
Robbins Lane, 1947 The aerial photos above by Bob Boslet
may
have been taken from a plane flown out of this airport.
Click on the picture to read about it.
The site is now an industrial park, probably on Aerial Way.
(from Images of America: Long Island Airports,
by Joshua Stoff, courtesy of Rich Schaetzl)
Aerial views of the
Hicksville Air Park, c. 1945
Inside Bohack's on Jackson Ave.
c. 1940s
Carpenter Bros. Food Shop
(Albar), Split RocK Road and Jackson Avenue, 1949
Local kids, 1949
Charles (Charlie) Ekstrom, Stanley (Little Cement) Kwiatkowski, Frank (Frankie)
Martin, Charles (Chucky)Martin,
Florence (Baby) Kwiatkowski.
Charlie lived on Whitney Ave., Little Cement & Baby on Jackson Ave.,
Frankie & Chucky on First Street and Berry Hill Road.
Charlie is ready for baseball, Little Cement hanging on the
clothes line, Chucky annoying the kitten, Frankie & Baby
not enjoying having their pictures taken.
(image and caption courtesy of Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski)
Bottom of
Muttontown Road, junction of Split Rock
and Berry Hill Roads to their left, c. 1949
Irene Sekelsky & Florence M. Kwiatkowski
(photo courtesy of the Kwiatkowski family)
Birthday party in Locust Grove, 1950, and thank you note
Seated on ground: Robin Boslet (partially obscured), Pam Boslet,
Louraine Yoepp,
Judy Egge?
Back row: Clara Yoepp, Maureen Raynor?, Myrna Belowitz?, Karen
Egge?,
Jeanette Watson? (partially obscured)
Greenway Circle, Summer of '52:
Dan L.,
Johnnie Delin, Larry Ebel, Ron Burckley, Steve
Zajac
Johnnie Delin, skiing down Hofgren's hill off Convent
Road, c. 1953
Testimony by Burleigh
Horan in c. early 50s advertisement for Vertagreen Plant Food
Mr. Horan and son, Burleigh
Sledding on Hofgren's
Hill, January 1957
Left, Krissy Hofgren, Mike Hofgren, Pete Eriksen, Ron Burckley
(partially obscured);
Right, Mike Hofgren and Ron Burckley
(photos courtesy of Priscilla Thralls King)
"Chicken
fights" on Hofgren's Hill, c. 1957
Left, Randy Chapman, bottom, Dennis Gormely, top;
Right, Randy, left bottom, Dennis, right top
(photos
courtesy of Priscilla Thralls King)
Syosset's Thomas Flower
Mart, Long
Island's most famous chrysanthemum farm
It was located in back of what is now 271 Jericho Turnpike, near
Humphrey Drive.
1958: Left, Art Thomas and Charlie Lewis with begonias
Right, information on Lecture re Tuberous Begonias
Left, Delin's mom in front of
Rege' Hair Styling on Ira Road
Right, 1962 advertisement
Rege' Hair Styling on Ira Road,
1959 advertisement
View of triangle, Jackson
Avenue and Cold Spring Road, c. 1953
(photo courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Left, going north on Jackson
Avenue c. 1954
The red barn on the right was Nichols Bros. Hardware.
(photo courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Right, advertisement for Nichols Bros., 1962
Beney
Funeral Home, 79 Berry Hill Road, and Mr. Egbert J. Beney's antique
automobile,
a 1922 Oldsmobile Touring Car
Early photo of Young's coal towers on Ira Road
(photo
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Hand-held advertising fan given away by Syosset Coal, c. 1950
(images courtesy of Larry Chernow)
Young's Coal towers
undergoing demolition, c. 1957,
on the future site of the Big Apple Supermarket, Ira Road
These Carvel stores are
similar to the one on Jericho Turnpike in the '50s, which still exists
today.
(photos courtesy of the Carvel Corporation)
Advertisement for Carvel grand opening
March 1, 1952 (photo
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Carvel on Jericho
Turnpike, 1956 advertisement
Unidentified,
Phyllis Piana, Gerry Horgren, Nancy Standing, unidentified, April 1955
on Convent Road,
(courtesy of Shirlee Sarver Iacono)
Denis Norman on his
13th birthday 2/19/56
(courtesy of Shirlee Sarver Iacono)
Mel Frankel on
Schwinn truck bike, Split Rock Road, 3/9/56
(courtesy of Shirlee Sarver Iacono)
Paul Poschmann,
3/19/56
(courtesy of Shirlee Sarver Iacono)
Josephine DiPietro,
Irene Sekelsky, Tom Whitenack, unidentified, Denis Norman, Shirlee
Sarver 3/19/56
on Convent Road going to the Syosset Sweet Shoppe
(courtesy of Shirlee Sarver Iacono)
Tom Whitenack,
Gerry Hofgren, Denis Norman 3/10/56
in Jane Puccio's backyard
(courtesy of Shirlee Sarver Iacono)
Tom Whitenack,
sandy Christiano, Josephine DiPietro, Tom Letsch 3/10/56
in Jane Puccio's backyard
(courtesy of Shirlee Sarver Iacono)
Terence Meehan on
Berry Hill Road, August 1956
(courtesy of Terence Meehan)
On Georgia Drive,
c. 1957
Front row: Randy Stricker, Ian Donohue; back row: Kevin
Keegan, Tom Stricker, Esme Donohue
(courtesy of Randy Stricker)
Underhill Boulevard under
construction;
after
completion, this road was used as a drag strip (Pam's dad, Syosset's usually-staid postmaster, took Pam on her first
over-100 MPH ride in the Triumph below on Underhill Boulevard.)
Left, Pam and Bob Boslet Jr.
with Bob's 1952 TR2, Summer, 1958;
Right, the same TR2 in June, 1959. Please drive safely.
Ribbon-cutting
ceremony for Underhill Boulevard, September 29, 1958
A. Holly Patterson, Nassau County Executive, is at the podium. On the
right: Lewis Waters, former Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor; John C.
Schulz, Chamber of Commerce President; unidentified; A. Holly Patterson;
John J. Burns, Town of Oyster Bay Supervisor; Abby Katzman, Syosset
attorney
Singer Manufacturing Co.,
Underhill Blvd., 1961
(photo courtesy of The Library
of Congress,
Prints and Photographs Division, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection: LC-G613-77329-A)
Singer Company envelope, postmarked August 8, 1969,
advertising Elvis Presley in concert August 17, 1969 on NBC-TV,
sponsored by Singer
Fairchild Camera
and Instrument Co., 1953 (photo courtesy of The Library
of Congress, Prints and
Photographs Division, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection: LC-G613-64662)
Vintage Fairchild aerial camera and magazine
Vintage Fairchild military camera
Arthur S. Underhill farm in
Syosset
from a 1958 Dime Savings Bank calendar
The artist is Tschamber.
The barns in this c. '70s
photo of the Powell Farm at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration
were originally on the Arthur S. Underhill farm in Syosset.
(August Viemeister, An Architectural Journey through Long
Island, Kennikat Press Corp., Port Washington, N.Y./London, 1974)
The Syosset Theatre,
OPENING SOON!
"Designed for 1980 rather than 1956"
The United Syosset Aid program received
the opening day proceeds of the new Syosset Theatre.
Left, the agreement signing:
Standing, Edmund Roel (Joint Civic Council president), Ted Allen (Syosset
Theatre),
John Schulz (Chamber of Commerce president), William Ferris (Rotary
Club),
Abby Katzman (Lions Club president), Michael Dane (Kiwanis) and John
Martin (Island Federal Savings and Loan Association).
Seated, Honorable Cortland A. Johnson, Justice of the Supreme
Court.
Syosset Cinerama
The Syosset Theatre opened Nov. 20, 1956; it re-opened June 26th 1959 as the
first purposely built 70mm Cinerama theatre in America. It had
1450 seats, an 18 m screen and Ashcraft Super Cinex arcs. The
theatre closed and was torn down in the early 90s.
(photo on left courtesy of Roland Lataille;
photo on right courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Announcing Syosset Cinerama,
1959
(image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Poster
advertising Windjammer, shown in Cinemiracle, Syosset
Theatre, c. 1959
Syosset Theatre presents
Seven Wonders of the World
Left, 1959; Right, 1960
Tickets to Syosset Theatre
August 14, 1960
Cinerama: Windjammer
Syosset Theatre presents
West Side Story, April 19,
1962
Syosset Theatre presents
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,
October 22, 1963
Syosset Theatre presents
How the West Was Won, 1963
Syosset Theatre, 1977
(photo courtesy of Joe Maggio)
The Syosset Theatre in
1957
Top center, the lobby; top right, snack bar;
Bottom right, the projection room; bottom center and right, the women's
lounge
(images courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Syosset Theatre, c. '80s
(image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Ticket with photo for the opening of the UA Cinema 150 on Jericho
Turnpike c. 1969
It was recently demolished.
(images courtesy of Robert Weisgerber)
Left, Split Rock Road (taken from Split Rock School), 1957
Right, Cold Spring Road, c. 1960 (photo on right, courtesy of Diane
Oley)
Looking up Dawes Avenue from Jackson
Avenue after the blizzard of 1960
The Mihaly house is on the left.
(image courtesy of Charles Weidig)
After Blizzard of 2/3-4
1961
(images courtesy of Ed Moran)
Jackson Avenue facing southwest, c. 1962.
The Towne Diner is visible.
(image courtesy of Tony Maimone and Tom Montalbano)
Jackson Avenue facing northwest, c. 1962.
Pergament and Weintraub's are visible.
(image courtesy of Tony Maimone and Tom Montalbano)
Jackson Avenue facing southwest, at Jericho
Turnpike, c. 1962.
The Democratic Headquarters is visible, as is the Meadowbrook Bank.
(image courtesy of Tony Maimone and Tom Montalbano)
Crest Manufacturing Co.
on Underhill Boulevard, postcard postmarked 1965;
old faucet washer tin from Crest
It became Crest/Good Mfg. Co. in 1963.
Georgia Drive, Winter of
1963
(courtesy of Randy Stricker)
Below, the Syosset Sweet
Shop: (photos courtesy of Caren Haas Ballentine)
Syosset Sweet Shop at 18
Cold Spring Rd, 1963, owned by Carl and Clara Haas
Behind the counter: Left, Carl
Haas; center, Richard Haas; Right, Tim Cleary
Left, full of customers;
center, long view;
Right, Evelyn Stephenson (Clara's mom) ringing up candy sales
Left, Evelyn Stephenson ringing up
sales
Right, Clara Haas waiting on tables
Left, Loft candy
display
Right, magazines!
Syosset Sweet Shop
by Lauren Weidenman, SHS Class of '75, 1973 (image courtesy of Leslie Weidenman)
The famous "Seth and Pete" graffiti written
on the Ira Rd. wall of the shopping center on Jackson Ave.
Seth is the late Seth Bier; Pete is Pete Ziegler.
"SETH + PETE" was written in the early '60s;
"WHO ARE" and "ARE BURNT" were added
later.
More on this in Syosset Stories.
(1997 image, just before erasure, courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Peter (Pete) Ziegler
at work in the Peak Sweet Shop, Jackson Avenue and ira Road
(photos courtesy of Audrey Schwartz)
Syosset-Woodbury
Park c. 1965-1966
formerly the Tinker Estate
Above, flag posted during the opening ceremonies, June 13, 1965
Below right, Teresa Ferri Quinn
(images courtesy of Stephanie Ferri Green)
Tearing down old stores
to make way for new bank, early '70s
Building the bank on
Jackson Avenue
Ice Storm, 1/14/78
(images courtesy of Ed Moran)
Snow Storms, 1978
Left, after near-blizzard of 1/19-20
Right, after Blizzard of 2/6-7
(images courtesy of Ed Moran)
After Blizzard of
4/6/1982
(images courtesy of Ed Moran)
Blizzard of 2/11-12/1983
Left, during
Right, after
(images courtesy of Ed Moran)
Left,
Bahnhof' Delicatessen on Jackson
Avenue, already closed, July 2000
This building once housed the Bank of Syosset.
Right, 1960 advertisement
Interior of Bahnhof in
the early 60s
Carl, left, and Fred
(image courtesy of Ed Eschler)
Sign from Bahnhof Deli;
Bahnhof means "station" in German.
(image courtesy of Diane DeeDee Krueger Crammer)
Syosset Drug and
Surgical, 38 Cold Spring Road (closed)
Stores along Cold Spring Road, 1984 —from Newsday Magazine, May 6, 1984
The back of the postcard
on the left reads: "PLAINVIEW MOTORS, INC.
So. Oyster Bay Rd. (next to L. I.
Expressway intersection) SYOSSET, N.Y.
FORD-THUNDERBIRD-FALCON".
Right, inside Plainview Ford, 1965
Plainview Ford Registration holder c. 50s, with ads
Plainview Ford, 1960 advertisement
The caption of the Syosset Community Hospital postcard on the left
reads:
"A new modern medical facility for an expanding Long
Island... Across the street from the famous Villa Victor Restaurant and
Island Lodge Motel."
(image
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Right, North Shore University Hospital at Syosset, formerly Syosset
Community Hospital, on Jericho Turnpike
Syosset Hospital
vintage volunteer service pins
First Aid Facts from Syosset Community Hospital
Pull inner slide until the black dot appears under "Ailment" to
be treated and read its "Symptoms" and method of
"Treatment" in windows below.
(image courtesy of Larry Chernow)
Syosset Public Library on
South Oyster Bay Road, opened in 1970
The Cerro water tower,
demolished September 2004
The Cerro Wire & Cable Co. on Robbins Lane produced electrical
conduit and hot-rolled copper rods from the 1950s through 1986.
Left, Syosset Memorial
Garden
(from the Residents For a More Beautiful Syosset website);
Center, Korean War Memorial; Right, Vietnam War Memorial
Jackson Avenue during the
"Blizzard of 2003"
(photo by Tom
Montalbano)
Mun's Laundry, Spring 2004
Longtime fixture on Ira Road
"Sadly for Rent"
(image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
2005: This was the old Sunoco station on the corner of Jackson Ave. and
Convent Rd.
It will soon be replaced by a branch of the Wachovia Bank. (image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
2006: Construction of the Wachovia Bank branch begins (image courtesy of Tom
Montalbano)
Above: The plan to renovate/replace the buildings shown immediately below
(in 2005): (image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Corner of Jackson Avenue
and Muttontown Road
Center, sites of the Andrew Wencko Grocery (left, which looks intact in
the plan) and the old Puccio's Barber Shop, later the Village Tavern;
Right, behind the corner building is the auto body shop which was once
the Syosset Fire Department.
(image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
March 1952 Advertisement
for the Village Tavern (image
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
1953 Advertisement
for the Village Tavern (image
courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
Corner of Jackson Avenue
and Muttontown Road Construction underway March
2006
(images courtesy of Tom Montalbano
2005: The Smoke Shop that moved into the site of the
old Weinstocks/Weintraubs "Everything
Store." (image courtesy of Tom
Montalbano)
2005: "Jim Balletta's Lex Realty is
being remodeled to resemble an earlier time.
The brick work on top
was uncovered recently, when workers started to remove
the brown siding that had been up for years. Presently, masons are matching the old
brick with new. It's looking good." Tom Montalbano. (image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)
The hill from Syosset Woodbury Road to Woodbury Road
(dangerous left turn onto Woodbury Road) being taken away in 2006
and a piece of the pavement (images courtesy of Barbra Broidy)
Syosset Glass
Company, September 2008
This landmark building is at 60 Underhill Boulevard, near Tredwell
Avenue,
In 1914, it was a farmhouse owned by F. De Rosa; this stretch of
Underhill Blvd. was High Street.
Corner of parking
lot, Syosset Glass
Company,September 2008
Is this the site of an old graveyard?
Are the graves shown below still here or were they moved?
Florence C. Wencko
Kwiatkowski drew these maps of the area and the graves she saw in
1926. "Two old grey tombstones visible from the footpath had
American flags in front of them. The area was overgrown with grass and
old apple trees and the time of year when I first saw it was August
1926. The flags were for 2 soldiers buried there before World War I.
(contributed by Florence Kwiatkowski Sendrowski)
Left, current location of
Syosset Glass; center, Nassau County Tax Assessor map showing likely
location of graves at "113."; right, aerial view.
The map in the center shows Kings St., the street that never was.
Did the gravesite stop the contruction of Kings St.? And/or, it was
said that Mr. Burden, Woodside Acres, didn't
want another street running thru next to his property line. (left, contributed by Tom
Montalbano; center and right, contributed by Florence Kwiatkowski
Sendrowski)
Exits for
Route 135, Ralph J. Marino
Expressway (formerly Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway), on the Northern State Parkway (left) and the Long
Island Expressway (right)
(photos by Doug Kerr)
Listen to Joseph Boslet speak about change; click here:
Changes
signs.
If you live in Syosset, visit the library to borrow
the entire tape and tapes featuring other longtime Syosset residents. If
you wish to listen to the tapes in the library, call the library first to see if
they have a tape player; otherwise bring your own.
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