Monday, March 16, 2026

Before the Flood: Broadway Postcard and the Casino And the Old Original Saltaire Dock

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Originally  posted July 4, 2008 Above Excerpt from Saltaire Brochure from mid 1930's text courtesy Larry Lynch Post c...
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Saturday, December 20, 2025

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 A SALTAIRE CHRISTMAS STORY     A Saltaire story from Frank McManus is that one Christmas Eve he was alone in his apartment, sitting on a st...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Buying Fish in Saltaire in the 1950's

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click to enlarge Capt. Baldwin, 1949, photo by Bill Weinlandt Courtesy and copyright Bill J. Weinlandt 2008 If you wanted to buy fish...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

THE SALTAIRE POLIO EPIDEMIC OF 1954 IN MAYOR LUDLOW'S OWN WORDS

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2025 UPDATE I DECIDED TO RE-POST THESE NEXT THREE STORIES BECAUSE OF SOME RECENT  SENTIMENT OUT THERE THAT POLIO VACCINES MIGHT BE OPTIONAL ...
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Part II: The 1954 House of Needles

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Editor’s note: the following is the second installment of the complete text (in three parts) of a speech given by Mayor John Ludlow in ...

Part III: Tears rolled down his cheeks... “my granddaughter has polio”

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Editor’s note: the following is final section of a speech given by Mayor John Ludlow in 1954 or 1955 to a civic group about the Polio epidem...
Friday, August 30, 2024

BIG LABOR DAY ISSUE

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Click on images to enlarge 1920's -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1954 ...

LABOR DAY, 1946-1949 IN SALTAIRE: KODACHROME IMAGES BY THE LATE RICHARD GREER

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Pictures by Richard Greer Pictures courtesy Sid Greer (JO'H Ed. Note) : The promise of Saltaire from i...
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Saltaire Memories: Labor Day

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Tom Lyon was a smart city kid. He seemed to know about everything. In Saltaire, he would sit down in front of the Saltaire Sweet Shope or on...
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Monday, July 1, 2024

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  HARRY J. SCANLAN       The Mayor and Board of Trustees of the Village of   Saltaire are deeply grieved and saddened by  the sudden passing...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

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THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN BALDWIN AND CAPTAIN MURDOCH Cosmo reports to Saltaire38.blogspot.com: Back in the 1940’s and 1950’s, there were ...
Monday, June 17, 2024

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The following link is to the earliest footage known of Fire Island in and about Saltaire, Kismet and the lighthouse.  The movie was filmed ...

Early Saltaire View with just the Casino

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This postcard is from a series of very early   promotional postcards.   This one is very interesting. Look carefully. To the east  of the c...
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