Previously posted 1-12-2017
This is what we looked like in the Fifties, with an occasional shot from the Forties and Sixties. These pictures are from the camera of Bill Weinlandt.
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Rich Greer and Billie Greer, 1951
Note the Pavilion at the top of Broadway at the Ocean.
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| Rita Connelly, Kay Imray; Bronson Goddard to right |
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Kitty Goggins and the Glascocks
Note the dune line in the background. This was a dune replenishment year |
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1958 Chris Kartalis, Chief Lifeguard
by the way: so many outdoor shots of Saltaire vistas somehow have the water tower somewhere in the background. |
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Murderers Row, 1957:
From left: Ed Weinlandt, Jack Thorp, Mike Fitzgerald, Tony Shoecraft, Bill Weinlandt, "Stick" O'Brien, Bob Marks; Larry Lynch.
Pic by W.J. Weinlandt |
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| 1957 |
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1957
Anne Keegan told me that this was one of her favorite pictures of her Dad Mike Coffey |
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Captain Baldwin 1948
Hermit. Fisherman. lived in a shack in the marshes of Clam Cove. |
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| 1957 |
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Charley Ritch, Village Superintendent
from the 1930's through late 1950's |
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Frank and Kitty Goggins, 1948
Mrs. Goggins, too was one of the earliest Saltairians. Second Village Historian. |
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| Larry Lynch |
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| The Marks |
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Ladies' Softball Labor Day 1957
Left: Rita Connelly Mary Wright at bat.
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Labor Day, because one of the girls is holding a trophy. Best kid in group got "The Cup."
The Labor Day ceremony was kind of like the Academy Awards. |
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Ladies' Softball Labor Day 1957
Edna Wilson, Mary Wright |
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| Cyril Schmidt, October 1954 |
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| Father Francis X. Fitzgibbon of Our Lady Star of the Sea 1954 |
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| Howard Sutherland October 1954 |
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| Lou Schmidt, Catsy Schmidt October 1954 |
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| Chuck Foster, Pie-Eating Champion. He won by diving into the Entenmann's blueberry pie while all the other kids were trying to eat theirs. Hands behind backs, of course. |
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| Future Mayor and Fire Island Association President Norma and Tom Ervin 1951. Both had worked at the Nuremburg trials. |
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| Charley Ludlow and his brother Jack, 1951 in the ball field. This Photo looks east. No playground yet. |
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| Mike Coffey 1951 |
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The Pipers 1951
Mrs. Piper was a fashion model in the 1950's.
Background: Looking West, Bay Prom was still boardwalk, CC Sailboat on right. |
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| Paul Schmidt, former Mayor, 1951 |
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Ruth Dobie and Mr. and Mrs Lynch, 1951
Among the earliest Saltairians.
Mrs. Dobie eloped and got married on the beach, 1917. A summer resident until 1959, she was the First Village historian.
Mrs. Lynch was working for a public health service organizations in 1918 (?) when a troop ship ran aground and she came out as part of the rescue corps. Village houses were used as emergency shelters. She fell in love with the village; bought land and a house and stayed a summer resident. |
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| 1951: future Mayor John Ludlow and Dan Langley |
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| Ed Weinlandt, Eleanor Mark; Fred Mark; Helen Weinlandt; Bob Mark |
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Gil and Pat Bell, 1951
There are kids jumping off the Fire Islander in the background.
Those days labor day swimming races were held in the boat basin. Eleanor Mark on right. |
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| Dwight Isaccson, Chief Ocean Lifeguard 1964 |
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| Bob Marshalk and Gil Bell, 1951 |
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| All smiles. Pete Kuracheck at the guarded front door. Kids wait on line to go in for gamma globulin shots in polio epidemic, August, 1954. Notably, kids who got shots inside exited the back door so that the kids waiting to go in through the front door would not see their tears. |
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| Oliver Hull, Georgiana Hull 1960 |
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Peter W. Kuracheck, 1955
Athletic Director, swimming instructor, 1954-1964.
Wore this white zinc oxide on his nose, 1954-1964.
Played football at University of Kentucky, Class of 1937; M.A. in Phys Ed, University of Kentucky. When the War came, Captain Kuracheck drilled WWII fliers to be physically fit to handle combat flight. Some say he was every bit as tough (but loving) in teaching eight year-olds to swim in Saltaire in the 1950's and early 1960's. Sixty years later, people remember his swimming lessons like yesterday. He would hover over fledgling swimmers with a ten foot long bamboo pole. Kuracheck was one of the most successful football coaches in New York scholastic history at Pleasantville High School. |
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| Yacht Club Steward and Stewardess Jim and Terry O'Connor, 1960 |
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| Beach Party. Lotta kids. Lotta families had lotta kids. July 1954 |
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The Ahernes, 1954. Merry, Harriet, Marie and Bob.
Note the artificially built up dunes |
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Skinner Birthday Party 1950
Captain Al Skinner lived in a small apartment in what would now be the east end of the Fire House, with a porch facing the ball field. "the Shim Shack" they called his apartment. By the terms of the contract between the Village and Fire Island Ferries, the ferry had to be berthed in Saltaire at night and Skinner had to live in Saltaire. In case of the need for any emergency evacuations.
Note on the bulletin board in background.
Carved initials "JO'H" and "DW" by Jim O'Hare and Danny Weinlandt. |
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| Skinner, 1954 |
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Skinner Birthday Party 1960
Skinner was an accomplished pianist, singer, accordion player, raconteur and life-long bayman. |
2 comments:
That's my brother Pete in the picture with Mom and Dad, although you can't quite see him. He showed up three months later.
Chip Hull
Rita Connoly bears an incredible resemblance to Bob Furey.
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