A Syosset Scrapbook 

 Part Eight

Charles T. Duryea, Civil War-era politician, lived in Syosset.
Photo is signed on reverse, Charles T. Duryea, Syosset, Queens Co.

Maps of Syosset, 1873 (courtesy of Nancy E. Lutz) and 1984
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Left, 1873 Map of Oyster Bay Township
Right, detail of Syosset
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Left, Map of Nassau County 1906, Syosset and vicinity
Right, detail of Syosset
An area on both sides of the LIRR tracks, west of present day Jackson Avenue and south of the Rail Road station was known as Nassau Heights.
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Sketch of a clown, signed "M. J. Griscom."  
"Lloyd C. Griscom Syosset N. Y.  Clown 1917" is written on the back.
Lloyd Carpenter Griscom (1872-1959) was a lawyer who served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War and was U.S. Minister to Persia, 1901-02, Japan, 1902-06, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, 1906-07, Italy, 1907-09 and a delegate to the Republican National Convention from New York, 1912. 

Antique gold crucifix, engraved on back Syosset LI and signed M. S. Tiffany February 11, 1921  

Account of the Samuel Budd family at the Andrew Wencko Grocery at 10 Jackson Avenue
The sales are from September 2nd and 3rd, 1932.
Note the 3 packs of Luckies for 45 cents.
(images courtesy of Mary Wencko Gaida)

Funeral Mass Cards for friends Catherine Keibel (Farmingdale) and Estella Tylicki (daughter of Stanley and Josephine Tylicki of Syosset)
Both died tragically March 14, 1936, killed while crossing Jericho turnpike.  They were 16 years old.
(images courtesy of Mary Wencko Gaida)

Instructions for expectant mothers from
Dr. Karl Horn, Oyster Bay Road (later Jackson Avenue) c. 1940

Bill for incidental expenses incurred during a one-week childbirth stay in Huntington Hospital in 1940:  phone, $2.50; radio, $1.00; circumcision, $2.00

Donald A. Boslet, photographer, pictured with prize shot after receiving first prize in the Hicksville High School photography contest
(from Newsday, February 18, 1941)

"Ode of an Immigrant" (original copy #5) by Curt Stiler
written July 1946
The Stiler family owned Syosset Florist which originally was in the building that later housed Bahnhof's and moved later to 320 Jackson Avenue. 
(image courtesy of the Kwiatkowski Family)

Tax Levy for property at Beatrice Ave. and Humphrey Dr.,1946
The annual bill was 64.31! 
(images courtesy of Joseph Freitas)

Old postcard:  "Better Leave the Noise and Heat.  Come to Syosset, N. Y. 
 It Can't Be Beat"

Piece of airplane that crash landed in Hurley's Field (off Split Rock Road), Jan. 10, 1954 (retrieved from the field by Robin Boslet)
The pilot walked away, unhurt.

This is a T-33, similar to the one that crashed.
"When the plane crashed I was in the living room of our home at 9 Ryan Street, when I heard a loud whooshing sound, and our house seemed to shake.  It was the plane gliding to a landing on the snow covered farm, which the pilot thought was a lake.  Given that our house was at the top of a slight hill close to the farm, the plane must have come very, very close to our house.  I soon heard the fire engines, and then ran across the farm to see the plane.  As I recall, the damage was not great, and the pilot was uninjured.  The sound of the plane passing overhead and the shaking of the house are still vivid memories 50 years later."  Bob Holm

Fairchild F-27 metal airplane model with original box, made by Hallmark Models, Syosset, c. '50s

Jaw of a baby shark found on beach 
in Cold Spring Harbor, 1960

Thermometer/barometer and letter opener from Syosset Nurseries (note phone numbers)

Syosset Nurseries, (also known as Ritchie's), advertisement, 1962

Left, Consider the Lilies, issued by W. E. Marshall & Co., Inc., 1932.
Right, William Emerson Marshall among his lilies.
His Lily Field and Trial Grounds were located in Syosset behind
Syosset Nurseries on Jackson Avenue.

How to reach the Lily Field, 1932

Bank of Syosset
money bag

Bank of Syosset
deposit envelope

35th Anniversary mug, Syosset branch of the Norstar Bank
The Hempstead Bank acquired the Bank of Syosset in 1953 and eventually became Norstar and then Fleet Bank.

Hempstead bank ad, 1962

Cardboard Santa from Island Federal Savings and Loan Association
"START YOUR Christmas Club TODAY!"

Island Federal Savings and Loan Association, 1963 and 1973 advertisements

Boslet Photo Service,  1940s

Amateur radio station verification report (QSL card)
 sent from Syosset ("On The Gold Coast"), Sept. 13, 1948

More QSL cards sent from Syosset 
(image top left courtesy of Warren Mills)

Yardstick from Coombs & Oliver Hardware Store

Bag and photo envelope from Weinstock's on Jackson Avenue, around 1950 
  Weinstock's later became Weintraub's.

Photo envelope from  Weintraub's

Weintraub's, 1956 advertisement

Blotter from C & R Printing Company, c. 1950
Note the telephone number, SYosset 6-0929-M.
A letter after the last four numbers denotes a "party" line.

Tin from Roulston's Store on Jackson Ave. (later J. W. Baker & Son)

First Day Cover sent to Syosset's "mayor"
and the people of his "fine community"

Left, coat hanger (reads "Syosset & Merrick, N.Y.")
 from Fieldwood Men's Shop, 41 Jackson Ave, c. 1950s
Right, Syosset Casuals (formerly Lady Fieldwood) and Fieldwood, advertisement, 1962

Fieldwood advertisement, 1955

Vintage Stetson hat from Fieldwood's

Garment bag from Fieldwood
(images courtesy of Barbra Broidy)

Franklyn (misspelled "Franklin") of New York and Syosset, 1959 advertisement

Fur coat owned by Nellie Boslet, from
Furs by Franklyn of Syosset, LI, 56 W. Jericho Turnpike

Vintage mink wrap from Franklyn's

Vintage coat from Franklyn's

Promotional lighter  and penknife from Syosset Truck Sales Inc., c. 1950s

Gun sight and servo for aircraft use, c. 1950s
from Specialties Inc. "Skunks Misery Road, Syosset, L. I. N. Y."
Originally in Lattingtown, "when Specialties, Inc., moved from Skunk's Misery Road to Syosset, they supposedly petitioned the Postal Service to maintain their unique address."  S. Berliner III

William L. Knettel's cars
Left, Stutz
(images courtesy of Diane Oley)

Tommy Taylor's cars
Left, 1960
Right, 1961, with Tommy
(images courtesy of Diane Oley)

Helmer Delin's cars
Left, 1936 Ford, searching for the Bagatelle Nursery c. 1952,  sold for $5 in 1954
Center, 1949 Ford, c. 1954, junked 1959
Right, 1959 Anglia, bought new for $995
Unlike the Anglia in "Harry Potter", this one couldn't get up a hill.
Below, 1962 Volkswagen ragtop, bought new for $1,495, now residing and still going strong in Staten Island, N.Y., a valuable antique
"Once he got it, he got it right."  John Delin

1960 advertisement in LI Living for Gourmet Kitchen Inc., 45 Cold Spring Road

Souvenir glass ashtray from Champion Storm Window Corporation on Eileen Way, c. '60s

Mars Electronics (sellers of communications equipment), 135 Eileen Way, advertisement in CQ magazine, November 1963 

Vintage key chain from Post Liquors
(image courtesy of Larry Chernow)

45 rpm record of Syosset musician Richard Maltby and His Orchestra
He was hired by Paul Whiteman in the late 1930s, then moved on to work for Benny Goodman in the 1940s; he formed his own big band in the early 1950s.  He then arranged for Lawrence Welk's television show.  Maltby wrote a serious piece, "Threnody: Requiem for John F. Kennedy," after the president's assassination.

45 rpm record of Syosset musician Bill Stegmeyer and His Orchestra
He played clarinet with Bob Crosby (1939-40) and in the '40s worked and arranged for Billy Butterfield, Yank Lawson, Bobby Hackett, Will Bradley and Billie Holiday (1945-47).  Stegmeyer arranged for the popular "Hit Parade" television show during 1950-58 and was staff conductor for CBS in the 1960s.

78 rpm record of the Bill Stegmeyer Octet
(image courtesy of Steven Becker)

The Furys, c. 1960
These Syosset High School classmates performed for several years before disbanding in 1961.
unidentified (non-band member), Ralph Stanio, guitar,
 Ray Orabona, drums, unidentified announcer, Vinnie Messina, lead singer, Joe Getz, guitar

Business card of the '60s Long Island band, the Takers
The group consisted of John Dizek, Allen Kahn, Bob Snoody, Bill Tracy and Larry Zampino.
(image courtesy of Audrey Schwartz)

45 rpm record, 1967, of the '60s Syosset band, the Reasons Why
Personnel:  Dan "Fing"  Horton, lead guitar, Al Stegmeyer, drums, Buzz Feiten, bass/vocals and Steve Beckmeier, rhythm guitar/vocals.
The group, as shown at top (probably at the Village School):  Dan Horton is in front; back, left to right:  Doug Stegmeyer, Al Stegmeyer and Buzz Feiten.
(images courtesy of Jeanne Sittig Moore)

45 rpm record of the Reasons Why
(image courtesy of Steven Becker)

45 rpm record of the '60s Long Island band, the Hassles
The group, as shown at top c. 1967, consisted of Billy Joel, keyboard (who, in 1966, replaced original member Harry Weber, organist and Syosset resident), Jon Small, drums, Richard McKenna, guitar (a Syosset resident), John Dizek, vocals, and Howie Blauvelt, bass.
The Hassles formed in 1964 and disbanded in 1969.

Beckmeier Brothers album, 1979
From Syosset, Freddie Beckmeier (blue shirt and vest) and Steve Beckmeier (leather jacket)
The other band members are David Kalish, Richard Haywood and R. A. Martin.
(images courtesy of Jeanne Sittig Moore)

Memories from Dr. Freeman's office on Ira Road;
Pam Boslet's glasses, c. mid-'50s

 Dr. Freeman's office; 1962 advertisement

 Chamber of Commerce booklet,
printed by Berry Hill Press, 1957
(images courtesy of the Wencko and Kwiatkowski families)

Members of the Chamber of Commerce, c. 1957

Back of the Chamber of Commerce map of Syosset, early 1960s

Abalene Oil, 92 Jackson Ave., 1962 and 1973 advertisements

 Ad for Syosset Bicycle Shop, 71 Jackson Avenue
(image courtesy of Tom Montalbano)

"It Tickles" calendar, 1959, published for U.S. Steel Supply 
by Constance Bannister, Syosset's well-known baby photgrapher
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for a more legible reading of the note by Ms. Bannister,
 click here:  Text  (Note the last line and closing.)

From a set of playing cards advertising Salmick Brake Service on Jericho Turnpike, c. late 50s 
Photos by Constance Bannister

Appointment books, 1960-1962, by Constance Bannister
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"Tampering With Taxes is a Ticklish Situation" by Constance Bannister, 1966 

Constance Bannister
1913-2005
New York Times obituary

Green Hill Country Day Camp
Camper Achievement Award, 1960; Swimming Skills card

Syosset Hospital Volunteen cap, 1962

Florence Phillips, Queen of the Seabees, 1962
(images courtesy of Warren Mills)

Mallard duck hand carved in 1963 by H. Hargrove, Syosset

Box from Lady Cake Shop, 336 Jericho Turnpike
(images provided by Larry Chernow in memory of Pat Lowry) 

Photo envelope from Syosset Camera advertising the 1964 New York World's Fair

Program and menu for the Syosset League of Mercy Hospital International Luncheon Fashion Show, November 6, 1966
The Syosset League of Mercy served Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre, now Mercy Medical Center.
Mrs. William McGurk, wife of the former Syosset Board of Education President, was on the decorating committee.
Mrs. Robert Jessop was a model representing the United States.
Acknowledgements included:  Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, Princess Grace of Monaco, Senator Robert Kennedy, Viennese Coach Restaurant, Mah Jong Restaurant and other Syosset restaurants and companies.
Sweepstakes gifts included an ink drawing from Robert Kennedy, luncheon for two at the Maine Maid and a Westinghouse bulb assortment.

Captivating Cookery, a recipe collection published by the 
Syosset League of Mercy Hospital, c. '50s;
two recipes by Alice Hofgren
(images courtesy of Suzanne Berger)

Big discount at Comet Car Wash!

Comet Car Wash, 1960 advertisement

Bob Zito's (SHS '69) book, The Misfits of Channel 10, is "about coming of age in the '60s and the huge part that Lafayette Radio's warehouse in Syosset, its equipment and CB Radio played in this process."
(images courtesy of Bob Zito)

 Catalog from Lafayette Radio, 111 Jericho Turnpike, 1962