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West Hempstead Now and Then: Howard B Hutcheson
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West Hempstead Now and Then. Digging up old gems of West Hempstead's history. Thursday, May 28, 2009. Here is a recent photo of China Connection -. That would translate to $592. Perhaps he recovered at least some of that money that November when he won an auto race at the Empire City Race Track in Yonkers. The race was part on an event that showcased the Oldsmobile Runabout. Or "Curved Dash", which is considered the first mass produced automobile ever made (photo below from the Curved Dash Wiki entry).
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West Hempstead Now and Then: Photo Essay - the Recreation at Wall's (Hall's) Pond of Yesteryear
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West Hempstead Now and Then. Digging up old gems of West Hempstead's history. Monday, October 13, 2014. Photo Essay - the Recreation at Wall's (Hall's) Pond of Yesteryear. The following collection of photos below tell the story of a bygone era when kids from West Hempstead and its environs would frequent Wall's Pond. Here's another great shot from late June, 1939 of a boy paddling out with an acquaintance on a home-made boat that he christened the H.M.S. Foo. Most people today who would catch the scene d...
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West Hempstead Now and Then: Norwood Chapel - First Church in West Hempstead
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West Hempstead Now and Then. Digging up old gems of West Hempstead's history. Friday, April 17, 2015. Norwood Chapel - First Church in West Hempstead. The article below appeared in the Spring 2015 edition of the WHCSA News and Views newsletter. From the 1906 Belcher Hyde map of West Hempstead. Woods (Halls) Pond is in the middle of the image and the Norwood Chapel, just to the north, is labeled. The following is a brief history of the first church in West Hempstead, the Norwood Chapel. To John P Hull pre...
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West Hempstead Now and Then: A Rare Old Sketch of Halls Pond and the Hall-Wall Feud
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West Hempstead Now and Then. Digging up old gems of West Hempstead's history. Thursday, December 2, 2010. A Rare Old Sketch of Halls Pond and the Hall-Wall Feud. Note: This coming year will mark the 50th anniversary of Halls Pond Park as a county park. Now, a little about the name. The pond was originally called Wood's Pond after it's original owner, former Town of Hempstead supervisor Martin V. Wood. August 14, 2011 at 6:23 PM. I would love to see that picture. I am a resident of WH. A&P - Western Beef.
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West Hempstead Now and Then: A Brief History of 472 Hempstead Avenue - the Cong. Anshei Shalom Building
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West Hempstead Now and Then. Digging up old gems of West Hempstead's history. Thursday, July 2, 2015. A Brief History of 472 Hempstead Avenue - the Cong. Anshei Shalom Building. The following article appeared in the Summer 2015 edition of the WHCSA's News and Views newsletter. The following paragraphs chronicle the history of 472 (formerly 318) Hempstead Ave., the subject of the accompanying photo. We begin the story in 1911, when Violet Hutcheson, daughter of Aubrey G Hutcheson. Born in the Bronx, Jenni...
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West Hempstead Now and Then: How West Hempstead almost Became the Seat of Nassau County
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West Hempstead Now and Then. Digging up old gems of West Hempstead's history. Monday, February 24, 2014. How West Hempstead almost Became the Seat of Nassau County. The following article originally appeared, with minor modifications, in the West Hempstead Patch in 2011. Presented here with permission of the author. From the 1906 E. Belcher-Hyde map of West Hempstead. Area in red shows the proposed Nassau County seat, rejected in a county-wide referendum in November 1898. As a residential locality, allege...
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West Hempstead Now and Then: Aubrey G Hutcheson
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West Hempstead Now and Then. Digging up old gems of West Hempstead's history. Friday, March 27, 2009. One of the purposes of this blog is to provide a sense of what West Hempstead used to look like 100 years ago. Though most people wouldn't know it, there's a good chance that what is now a dilapidated gas station or a nail salon was once the site of a wealthy merchant's country estate (see previous post. Was the largest of any such business in NYC at the time. About this home, Peter Ross writes:. From th...
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West Hempstead Now and Then: Old West Hempstead Cybertour
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West Hempstead Now and Then. Digging up old gems of West Hempstead's history. Old West Hempstead Cybertour. Scroll down and click a number on the map. AK Bedell Estate - Nassau Hospital. LIRR Crossing at Hempstead Tpke. Housing Dev. at Willets Farm. Housing Dev. at Morton Manor. West Hempstead Home Bureau. Plymouth Colony Homes at Duryea Farm. St Giles the Cripple. Dist 17 School House. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Old West Hempstead Cybertour. A Brief History of 472 Hempstead Ave. John A Schwarz Furniture.
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West Hempstead Now and Then: John A Schwarz Furniture
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West Hempstead Now and Then. Digging up old gems of West Hempstead's history. Wednesday, May 14, 2014. John A Schwarz Furniture. The postcard above depicts the John A. Schwarz, Inc. furniture store at One Fulton Avenue, probably not long after their opening at that location in 1949. Actually the history of this firm begins long before that. Karen E. Wagner at My Old NY Just Ain't What She Used to Be blog. Forerunner to Winthrop. Nassau Hospital opened on an estate at that location as western Long Isl...
