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PatchogueQueen City of Long Islands South Shore

In the Twentieth CenturyHans Henke


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ContentsPage 7 ................................................................. The Patchogue Business District

Page 8 ..........................................................................................West Main Street

Page 37 .........................................................................................East Main StreetPage 59 ...........................................................................................East Patchogue

Page 65 ................................................ The Elks Lodge and The Patchogue Hotel

Page 73 ..................................................................................South Ocean Avenue

Page 87 .......................................................................................... Estate Auctions

Page 89 ..................................................................................... Early Automobiles

Page 97 ..................................................... The Four Corners Group Picture, 1944

Page 101 .............................................................. The Patchogue Railroad Station

Page 111 ............................................................................................. Baileys Mill

Page 113...................................................The Lace Mill and Swezeys New Store

Page 131 .......................................................... The Patchogue Police DepartmentPage 139 .............................................................. The Patchogue Fire Department

Page 145 ...................................................................... The Patchogue Post Office

Page 149 ................................................................. The N.Y. Telephone Company

Page 153 ..................................................The Patchogue Electric Light Company

Page 159 ............................................................................. Aviation in Patchogue

Page 163 ........................................................................... The Patchogue Theater

Page 183 .......................... Parades, Entertainment and Sports in the 20th Century

Page 196 .................................................................. Dodge City Amusement Park

Page 198 ............................................The Smithport Beach and Patchogues Pool

Page 202 .......................................................... The Ocean Beaches on Fire Island

Page 213 ........................................................... The Patchogue River and the Bay

Page 224 ...................................................................................1957 Business Ads

Page 231 ....................................................The Patchogue Village Administration

Page 241 ......................................................................Patchogues Parking Fields

Page 251 .............................................................................. The Sunrise Highway

Page 257 ..............................................................................Patchogues Churches

Page 267 ..............................................................................Patchogues Hospitals

Page 273 ................................................................................ Patchogues Schools

Page 285 ................................................................ Hurricanes, Storms and FloodsPage 291 ......................................................................... Patchogues Newspapers

Page 297 .................................................. The Four Corners Group Picture, 1993

Page 301 ........................................ Well Known Places of Business in Patchogue

Page 319 ..................................... Patchogue at the Beginning of the 21st Century

Page 323 ...................................... Events in Patchogue at the Turn of the Century

Page 329 ........................................................................ Entering the 21st Century

Page 337 .....................................................Patchogue Events in the 20th Century


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This picture book is a continuation

of my previously published book,

Patchogue-The Early Years.

It shows the development of our

community in the 20th Century

using available pictures, covering

the years between 1900 and 2006.


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Acknowledgments

My appreciation and thanks to the following people who were kind

enough to loan me their photographs :

Donna Bodkin, Mary Blanding, Peter Barry, the Long Island

Advance, Lillian Priest, Don Zimmer, Postmaster John Sweeney, Lou

Meyers, Fred Printzlau, Adolph Morge, Professor Emil Polok, Gene

Horton, Gateway Playhouse, Camera Concepts, The Davis Park Ferry

Company and Clare Rose Distributors.

Special thanks to Jim Mooney, Eagle Eye Aerial Photography, who

made his beautiful aerial pictures of Patchogue available for this book.

Cover Design by Tom Reid

Printed by AGC Printing and Design, Blue Point, New York


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The PatchogueBusiness Section


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West Main StreetThe first settlers arrived in Patchogue around

1750. The center of Patchogue in the year1800 was

located on the Kings Highway, which is todays

Montauk Highway, extending from River Avenue tothe Patchogue Lake. This center expanded towards

the east in the coming years, and by 1850 the

Patchogue business section extended several hun-

dred feet past the intersection of Ocean Avenue.

Many small buildings lined both sides of West Main

Street, housing a variety of merchants and crafts-

man. Eventually larger buildings sprung up in this

section. The first one was the Havens store,

ca.1850, todays Brick House Brewery.

The large three-story building on the south

side of the street, which until 2005 housed the

Colony Shop, was built in the 1870s. The three-

story building on the corner of Ocean Avenue,

which later became the home of the Swezey and

Newins store, was built in 1869, and the large

Wedgewood Building on the north side of the street

This is West Main Street in the year 1918. The first building on the left is the

Star Palace, followed by the Central Hotel, the Roe Block and the Patchogue

Bank building. The Roe Block is the building with the corner tower, which was

removed in later years. The first building on the right, which is only partially

visible, is Bartletts Hotel and Saloon, followed by the Pape building, the

Syndicate building and the large red Masonic Temple.

was built in 1898. These were the pioneer buildings

of the modern Patchogue business section on West

Main Street, which were followed by other stores,

theaters, banks and movie houses. No great changeswere made to West Main Street until the 1960s and

1970s, when many buildings east of West Avenue

were razed to make room for the construction of the

Sixth District Court Building on the south side and

the Breslin Building on the north side of the street.

West Avenue had the distinction of becoming

only the second street to cross Main Street in 1967

besides Ocean Avenue. The reason for this lack of

intersections was, that Patchogue prior to 1880developed mainly south of Main Street. Only after

1880 did the northern part of Patchogue attract home

builders. There also was a lack of planned develop-

ment and layout of the streets prior to 1900, resulting

in the fact, that there is no other continuous east

west road parallel to Main Street.


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West Main Street in the

1930s. Diagonal parking

was a necessity because

of a lack of parking

fields, a problem thatwas not corrected until

the 1950s and 1960s.

Patchogues Four Corners

about 1920. Traffic is now

controlled from a booth in

the middle of the intersec-

tion. This idea was later

abandoned, especially afterthe booth took a ride on the

front bumper of a car for a

short distance. The building

behind the booth is the Star

Palace Theater.

A curious picture of

Ginocchios candy store on

the southwest corner of

Main Street and Ocean

Avenue. This 1905 picture

shows what looks like a

temporary structure at-

tached to the front of the

building, possibly built to

make the candy store look

like a candy castle?


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During the first two decades of thiscentury, Al Seitz had his barber shop

on Main Street next to Swezeys. As

the displays in the widows indicate, he

also sold Victor Talking Machines, or

gramophones as they were called later.

This picture was taken in 1907.

The Anello Shoe Shoppe, 84 West

Main Street, stood on the south eastcorner of Main Street and Railroad

Avenue in the 1920s.

The Citizens Trust Company Bank

building on West Main Street. This

new bank opened its doors June 20,

1925. In 1933 the Citizens Trust

Company, established in 1903,merged with the Patchogue Bank and

Trust Company, established in 1884.

The name of the newly formed bank

became the Patchogue Citizens Bank

and Trust Company, later simplified

to The Patchogue Bank. October 31,

1963 the Patchogue Bank became the

Island State Bank.


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The Citizens Trust Company bank

building, when completed in 1925,

was one of the most beautiful

banks on Long Island.

The interior of the Patchogue Bank,1935.

The Masonic Temple on

West Main Street became a

total loss due to a fire No-

vember 7, 1974. The site of

this building was purchased

by the Island State Bank.


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Patchogue had an attended municipal

rest room in the 40s and 50s, located

in the Masonic Temple building.

After a fire destroyed the Masonic Lodge November 7, 1974, the Island State Bank

purchased the property and built this Drive-in Bank Teller facility.

West Main Street 1915. A

trolley approaching the Four

Corners. Patchogue could boast

of a street car service from July

1, 1911 to October 10, 1919.

Three battery powered cars,

each having a capacity of 25

passengers, provided service

from the dock at the foot of

South Ocean Avenue to Blue

Point and Sayville. In the first

year, the line carried up to 1,000

passengers a day, but by 1919

competition from bus lines

made the line unprofitable.


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The Sunray Furnishing Com-

pany occupied this large brick

building in the 1940s on the

north side of West Main Street,

a few hundred feet west of the

West Lake and next to John

Belzacs Bar and Grille.

On the opposite side of the street

of the above picture a Used Furni-

ture Store operated out of this long

building, which later became

Flaxmans Furniture Store.

In the 1940s Joe and Franks

Market sold fruit and vegetables

from this small roadside building

on West Main Street, where now

the Car Wash is located. For many

years prior, John Sosinski Sr. sold

candy, groceries and tobacco

products from this little store.


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The corner of Waverly Avenue and Main Street in 1940. The large

house on the right had recently burned and Felices Gas Station would

be built here in the future. Across the street is the Mount Carmel

Church with the rectory barely visibly to the right of the church.

Felices gas station on the northeast corner of Main Street and Waverly Avenue in 1950.


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The Swezey and Newins Department Store in

the 1930s. The tower had been changed from

the original look by enclosing the sides and

the windows with siding material, a fact that

complicated the fighting of the fire in the

tower in 1946.Firemen fighting the fire, January 9, 1946.

The water cannot reach the fire inside the

tower effectively.

The Swezey and Newins

building after the fire.


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The Star Palace Theater was built in 1913 on the south side of West Main Street,200 feet west of the Four Corners. Many famous personalities performed on the

stage of the Palace. A 1920 newspaper article announced that on May 27 and

May 28, Charlie Chaplin, the newlyweds Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks,

Alice Brady and other famous performers would parade on the stage of the

Palace in the costumes of the characters they made famous.

A souvenir program of one of the Star Palace

events in 1918.

The Conklin Building in the year 2001. This is

the renovated Star Palace, which bears no resem-

blance to the original building on the Main Street

side, but if you look from the parking lot in the

rear of the building, the unchanged structure of

the theater is clearly visible.


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The Granada Theater was located on the south side of West Main Street, half waybetween Railroad Avenue and West Avenue. This popular movie house was built

in 1928 for the owner, Samuel Savener. The theater opened November 22, 1928.

Although it was a popular theater, it closed in 1947, most likely due to the com-

petition of the other two Patchogue theaters. In the 1960s the Two Guys

variety store operated from this building for several years. The building was

eventually torn down and today the 6th District Court is located on this site.

The interior of the Granada Theater was done in a Spanish dcor with flowers

and vines decorating the walls and the balcony.


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Lou & Macks restaurant was owned by the Dorr brothers,

William and Hermann. The restaurant was to the east of

Guttes on West Main Street in this 1942 picture. Guttes at

this time was a grocery store, established in 1931. Nicks Shoe

Repair was the next building to the east, followed by the

Liberty Restaurant and Swezeys. The reason for the concerned

look on the soldiers face is because of Duke, the Patchogue

mascot, who is just visible behind the car.

An interior picture of Lou & Macks restaurant and its patrons.

Willie Dorr is standing behind the table and the gentleman wear-

ing a white shirt is Gus Moos, a well known local expert zither

player. The five zithers on the table indicate that this must be the

local zither club.


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The menu of Lou and Macks

restaurant, 1946.

Hermann Dorr behind the bar of Lou

& Macks Restaurant.


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Changes


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Patchogue always tried to be a progressive

town, but here, the meaning of a drive-in

restaurant seemed to have been misunder-

stood. It is safe to assume that the driver of

the automobile had to go hungry for a while

longer. The scene is at the Hofbrau HouseRestaurant on the southwest corner of Main

Street and Railroad Avenue, about 1947.

In the 1960s the Hofbrau House

had become the Home Town

Tavern and Restaurant.

The large Nathaniel O. Swezey mansion occupied this corner

from the 1890s to the 1920s. In 1923 the offices of theBrookhaven Town Supervisor, the Town Clerk and the Town

Assessor were located in this building until the new Town

Hall was completed on South Ocean Avenue. The Dodge

Motor Co. was the next occupant on this spot in 1926.

Some locations in Patchogue saw many changes over the

years; the southwest corner of Main Street and Railroad

Avenue was one of them.


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Taken from in front of the Lace Mill, this 1962 picture shows the sec-

tion of Main Street soon to be crossed by West Avenue. The white

building on the left is Maurice Siegels electrical supply store, which

had to be demolished when West Avenue was extended north, and

thereby became only the second road in Patchogue to cross Main Street.

A 1949 West Main Street photo, looking towards the center of Patchogue. The building on the left,

with the large sign, is the Siegel Brothers electrical supply store. The fence on the left side of the

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A picture of West Main Street, takenin the 1960s from the corner of

Havens Avenue. This section of

Main Street experienced the greatest

changes in the following two de-

cades. Only the two dark buildings

in the center are still standing today.

West Main Street as seen from thecorner of West Avenue in 1970. Soon

all the buildings, starting from the

right up to the white building with

the small gable, the former Granada

Theater, would fall victim to the

wrecking ball. In this cleared space

the new 6th District Court building

would rise. The building on the right

side of the picture housed Kurts

Coffee Shop and Ben Schiffers Used

Book Store.

Kurts West End Coffee Shop on the corner of

West Avenue and Main Street.


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In 1995 the former Shand store

became the Brick House Brewery

and Restaurant. The wooden front

extension of the store was removed

and replaced with a brick extension,

housing the brewery equipment,

which blends in nicely with the

brick of the main building. Great

care has been taken to preserve as

many of the original features of the

building as possible.

The Shand store in 1980. Built in

the 1850s, this is one of the oldest

commercial buildings in

Patchogue. The original owner of

the store was John S. Havens.

Shands general merchandise

storestore, on the northeast corner of

Havens Avenue and Main Street. The

store, which was owned by the Shand

family since 1914, was sold in 1990.

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The Wedgewood Building on West

Main Street in 1968 . On September

10, 1967, a fire destroyed the upper

floor, and metal construction was used

to replace the original masonry facade.

West Main Street in 1950. Next

to the Swezey and Newins store

stands the former Bartletts

Saloon and Restaurant, soon to

be torn down and the space

incorporated to the Swezey store.

The large Syndicate building, or

Wedgewood Building as it is now

called, still has the original upper

floor. The last large brick build-ing is the Masonic Temple, which

was destroyed later by a fire.

West Main Street in the year

1914. The large building on the

right is the Syndicate Building,

which is now called theWedgewood Building. The small

white structure between the two

large buildings is the White

House Hotel, which was re-

moved in the early 1920s and in

1925 this spot became the site of

the future Patchogue Bank.


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Scenes on West Main Street in 1962.


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East Main Street


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After 1850, the Patchogue business section

started to expand to the east past Ocean Avenue.

Roes Eagle Hotel, built in 1851 on the north

side of East Main Street, was one of the first

buildings. During the following fifty years the

business section expanded up to Maple Avenue,

while east of Maple Avenue large mansions

lined both sides of the street. One of the first

large homes here was the J.S. Havens home near

East Main Street, c. 1915, was surfaced with brick. The trolley

tracks were only running up to Bay Avenue. The large building on

the right is the Roe Hotel and the tower visible above the tree is

part of the Fischel building, in which the Swezey and Newins storeoccupied the ground floor. The large building on the left is the

Hammond and Mills building.

East Main Street in the late 1910s. The Roe Hotel is on the left. This

scene has changed much, only the building with the gable on the

right side of the picture survives basically unchanged to this day.

Years ago Michaels Camera Store was located in this building.

Medford Avenue, built around 1850. Many

prosperous Patchogue merchants built their

homes on East Main Street between 1880 and

1911. A further expansion of the business

section started in the late 1920s and continued

for the rest of the century. Gradually most of the

large homes were torn down to be replaced by

commercial buildings, leaving only two at the

present time.


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East Main Street opposite

Rider Avenue in 1908. The

three homes belonged to

Charles E. Rose, on the

left, C.T. Lowndes in the

center and Walter S. Rose

on the right. The C.T.

Lowndes home became inlater years Nan Gurneys

Inn and then the Clayton

Nursing Home.

Xellers Restaurant was located on the northwest corner of East Main Street and

Rose Avenue. William Xeller also was the manager of the Elks Club in 1926. By

1939 the restaurant moved to a new location opposite Medford Avenue.

This is the former Xeller Res-

taurant building on East Main

Street which, in 1939, became

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Xellers Restaurant moved to this

larger building when the business

outgrew its old location. This build-

ing stood on the south side of Main

Street, opposite Medford Avenue.

The cozy little dining room in

the second Xellers Restaurant.

Browns Boarding House on the east

side of East Main Street, opposite

the Patchogue Theater.


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A large fire destroyed most of the

Roe Hotel on West Main Street

March 7, 1934. The fire loss was

$100.000. Forty guests and a dozen

employees managed to escape

unharmed.

The old Mills building on the corner of

Main Street and Ocean Avenue sports a

new brick faade in this 1947 picture.

The Glenda Lyn store, specializing in

ladys apparel, was located in the Main

Street section of the Mills building, bor-

dered by the Woolworth on the left and the

Russel store on the right. The Woolworth

store had an entrance on Main Street and

also one entrance on South Ocean Avenue,

a feature that still existed when Max

Kavners Mens Store occupied this store.


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In the 1930s this

Shell gas station

stood on East Main

Street, just west of

the Post Office. In

the background the

Patchogue Diner

and the Roe man-

sion are visible.

This 1950s view of the south

side of East Main Street, almost

opposite Maple Avenue, shows

the Rex bar and grille and part of

the Jack and Jerry store.

Thanks to the efforts of Adolph

Morge, a Patchogue Village patrol-

man and amateur photographer, wehave all these Patchogue scenes from

the 1940s and 50s preserved. This

view of the south side of East Main

Street shows from left to right:

Kallers jewelry store, Nicks barber

shop, Mike Weiners shoe store and

Sacks Stationary.


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Main Street in the late1940s.

On the extreme right a small

part of the Peoples National

Bank is visible. The diagonal

parking would soon be elimi-

nated, after off street parking

fields had been constructed.

A beautiful 1958 picture of Main Street. Starting on the right we can see The Peoples National

Bank, Optometrist Kurt Roeloffs store, the Patchogue Stationary Store and the Bee Hive. The

white building above these stores is the remnant of the Roe Hotel that survived the 1934 fire.


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The Pergament Paint store and the

Patchogue Stationary store became a

total fire loss on April 23, 1959. This

was the former location of the Bee

Hive department store. This JimMooney aerial photo shows clearly the

extend of the damage. The intersection

on the left side of the picture is

Patchogues Four Corners. The

burned building is the section of the

Roe Hotel that survived the 1934 fire.

Today this is the site of Blums ladys

apparel store.

A February 26, 1967 fire destroyed the

Sylvia Dee store and the Judsons Mens

Store on East Main Street.

A fire at Dales Fabric Shoppe on

East Main Street, February 2,

1968 also damaged the adjacent

Patchogue Stationary Store. Asecond fire on February 13 made

a total loss out of the damaged

stationary store.


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Stanleys Furniture Store at 44 East Main

Street was the scene of a major fire No-

vember 7 ,1974. At the same time, the

Masonic Temple on West Main Street was

also destroyed by fire.

The fire in the large Mills building

complex, February 10, 1956, totally

destroyed all the buildings on the south-

east corner of Main Street and Ocean

Avenue.

A large group of spectators

on the Four Corners

watching the Patchogue

Fire Department fighting

the fire in the Mills Build-

ing, February 10, 1956.


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The Main Street section of the Mills

Building after the fire. The building on

the left survived the fire thanks to thegreat effort of the firemen and it is still

standing today. This $1,000,000 fire

destroyed the Woods Jewelry Store,

the Glenda Lyn shop, the Miles Shoe

Store, Cantors Dress Goods, Muriel

Modes, Falkoff Shoe Store, Blums

and the Stuart Drug Store.

The corner section after the fire. ThePatchogue radio station WPAC was

located on the upper floor, as the letters

W and A in the windows indicate.

The Newmark and Lewis Appliance

Store on Medford Avenue was totally

destroyed by a fire July 26, 1991.


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The old stately Roe home on East Main Street was

razed in February 1956. It was built in 1911 for

Gelston G. Roe, owner of Roes Hotel. The site of

this home would become the site of the new Bee

Hive store in the near future.

The new 60 000 square feet Bee

Hive Store opened August 15,

1957 on the south side of East

Main Street. The management

added 100 employees to the

former staff of 50. This store hadthe first escalator in Patchogue.

Interior view of the Bee Hive Department Store.


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In the foreground of this 1957 picture

the foundation for the coming new

Peoples National Bank building is

visible. The large home is the residence

of John J. Roe Sr. The building in the

background is the Patchogue Hotel.

The Glass House and the Doll House

stores on 8890 East Main Street were

heavy damaged by fire June 11, 1977.

The building was remodeled in 1978 to

become a mini-mall with a walk-through

to the Terry Street parking lot.

The Village Mall.


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Angelos Restaurant on East Main Street

opened as a small restaurant in the late1960s and the owner gradually expanded

the restaurant in the following years by

buying adjoining stores.

Angelos was enlarged and modern-

ized by the owner and renamed

Mediterranean Manor. This is a

2005 picture.

The Cadillac and

Oldsmobile dealer-

ship of Barrie Broth-

ers on East Main

Street in 1958. The

dealer ship was

established in 1926.


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Another view of the Elks Lodge dining room.

The property of the Elks Lodge was

sold to the New Jersey based Com-

merce Bancorp, when the overhead

on the property became too high.

Attempts to save the building by

moving it to another location failedbecause of the prohibitive cost

involved. The demolition of the

building began February 13, 2002.

The Commerce Bancorp building

under construction.

The completed

Commerce

Bank, 2002.


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Street sceneson East

Main Street, 1962.

The Grand Union store opposite Rider Avenue.

W.T. Grant store.

The north side of East Main Street.

Mc Brides Pharmacy.


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Main Street in the winter of 1978.

Patchogue had a snowfall of 18 inches

January 19, 1978 and the blizzard of

1978 added another 25 inches over aperiod of 36 hours on February 5 6.

East Main Street opposite

the Congregational Church,

winter 1964.

The winter of 1995 96 gave

the merchants a big workout

clearing the sidewalks.

A few winters were

worse than others.

Blizzard 1964.


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East Patchogue


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The quaint little Ye Olde

Homestead Tea Shoppe

stood just east of the Swan

River Nursery on South

Country Road in the

1930s and 1940s.

When Montauk Highway was cut through

the Avery property, Humphrey R. Avery took

this opportunity and built this attractive

display building and office on the north side

of the highway and a large fountain on the

south side to make his business appealing to

potential costumers. Today a shopping mall

is located on this spot.

The Swan River Nursery was a large and

well known nursery on Montauk Highway

in East Patchogue. This nursery was startedin 1893 by Charles W. Avery on the prop-

erty of the Avery family, which owned this

land since1754. From this park-like nursery,

products were shipped to all parts of the

island and New York City.


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The old Elks Club Building had to be re-

moved from its location on the corner of

Maple Avenue and Main Street to make room

for the new Elks Hotel. Here the building ismoved past Swezeys, on the Four Corners, to

its new location on West Main Street, where

today the parking lot of the 6th District Court

is located. The date of this picture is February

7, 1925. Buildings at these times could be

moved without great difficulties, since there

were very few overhead wires and traffic

lights to worry about.

The former Elks Club Building became an

apartment house on its new location, which

deteriorated over the years and eventually

became a total fire loss June 13, 1974. Eight

families became homeless.

The new Elks Hotel and

Club House on East Main

Street, opposite the postoffice, was dedicated March

4, 1926. It served the Elks

until 1936, when it was

vacated. The hotel was not

used again until 1941, when

it became the Patchogue

Hotel. In 1969 the hotel

was demolished and a large

apartment building was

erected on this spot.


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The upper floor of the Elks Club

was one large hall. During the

Patchogue Hotel days it was used to

host many meetings and social

events for the people of Patchogue.


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The end of the Patchogue Hotel, 1969.

Another picture of the demolition of the hotel.

The former site of

the Patchogue

Hotel opposite the

post office is now

taken up by the

Tiffany Apartments.


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South Ocean Avenue


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South Ocean Avenue was one of the first

streets running south from Main Street towards the

bay. It was originally called Water Street or The

Lane. There were no buildings on the west side

of the lane, only 5 farms on the east side. By 1850

a continuous line of homes had been built on the

east side of the street between Main Street and the

South Ocean Avenue as seen from the Four Corners c. 1918. The sign in

front of the police officer was the first form of traffic control on the

always busy Four Corners. Later this was upgraded to various other

signs, control booths and finally traffic lights.

South Ocean Avenue in 1918. This photo was taken from the corner of

Terry Street, looking north. The white building on the left is the Union

Savings Bank.

bay and only a few homes on the west side. This

was the largest concentration of homes in

Patchogue in 1850. The first stores appeared just

south of Main Street in the 1870s, gradually

extending the business section south, but never

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Charles Howells store at 35

South Ocean Avenue specialized

in mens furnishings. The picture

of this store in the Mills building

was taken in 1904.

Charles Odells store, 467 South Ocean

Avenue, sold staple and fancy groceries,

foreign and domestic fruits and special-

ized in butter and eggs. This picture wastaken in the early 1900s.

The Algonquin Restau-

rant, on the northeast

corner of South Ocean

Avenue and Smith

Street, was photo-

graphed in 1926. Today

this building is an

apartment house.


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The Union Savings Bank was

established in 1896 and opened

its offices in the Tower Build-

ing on the Four Corners,

above the Swezey and Newins

store. In 1912 this new bank

was built in the northwest

corner of South Ocean Avenue

and Church Street in the style

of the Georgian Period of

classic colonial architecture. It

was faced with the whitest

Vermont marble available.

Interior of the Union Savings

Bank, 1918.

Dr. Agate Fosters former home on the

northwest corner of Ocean Avenue and

Gerard Street. At the time this picture was

taken, c. 1970, the house was vacant. This

house was an apartment house in the 1940s

and a home for the elderly before it was

demolished in the 1970s.


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Hyman Steiner, the owner of

the Economy Pharmacy on

South Ocean Avenue, had

been in business in

Patchogue since 1931. His

store was next to the Olym-

pia. The date of this picture

is approximately 1944.

Nelson McBrides drugstore on the

northeast corner of Main Street and

Ocean Avenue was one of the oldest

businesses in Patchogue, established in

1881. this picture was taken in 1945.

The Ruby Lane store for women on

South Ocean Avenue was bordered

on the south by Kresges 5&10 store

and on the north by the Audrey Shop

on the east side of the street.


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The counter of Jimmy Doukas Confectionary and Luncheon-

ette at 110 South Ocean Avenue. Not far from either the High

School or the Rialto Theater, it was a favored place to have a

soda or lunch, especially liked by the young crowd.


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This apartment house on Church Street, the

former home of Daniel Chichester in 1900, was

demolished in the 1990s and the drive-in of

the North Fork Bank took its place.

The site of the former Chichesterhome is now the drive-in of the

North fork Bank.

South Ocean Avenue in

1950. The large buildings on

the right are all part of the

Mills Building complex,

which became a total loss in

one of Patchogues largest

fires on February 10, 1956.


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A 1917 picture of the Olympia Confectionary and Ice

Cream Store at 32 South Ocean Avenue, a favored

place, especially for young people. The store was in the

old Ackerly building on the west side of the street,where today the entrance to the parking lot is located.

Clarence Lagumis was the manager in 1926.

A 1950 menu.


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A 1940 photograph of the interior of the Olympia.

The store was totally destroyed in a fire on

December 28, 1953.

Scenes of the Olympia fire, December 28, 1953.

The rear of the burned out building.


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Nancys Restaurant on South Ocean

Avenue, next to the railroad tracks.

The restaurant was built on the site

of an old, large structure that was

demolished in 1952. Nancys was apopular restaurant. A fire March 15,

1969 destroyed the restaurant, but it

was immediately rebuilt.

Nancys Restaurant the way it looked

after it was rebuilt. In August of 1970 it

came under new ownership and was

called the Golden Lantern. The restau-

rant was gutted by a flash fire April 26,

1971 and never rebuilt.

The Station Bar and Grilleon South Ocean Avenue,

next to the railroad tracks.

This dilapidated building

was demolished in 1952 and

Nancys Restaurant would

be built on this spot.


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The Mallard Restaurant, on the

east side of South Ocean Avenue,

in 1957. The Ocean Avenue Hotel

stood just south of this older

building. It became a restaurant

after the demolition of the hotel

and it had several different owners

and names. In 1957 it was the

Mallard Restaurant, thenWolfgangs and later Georges

Restaurant. After modifications

to the exterior it became Mister

Lees Restaurant and Cocktail

Lounge in the early 1970s and

later Pippins.

Mister Lees Restaurant and

Cocktail Bar.

Pippins Restaurant was

vacant when a fire gutted the

building December 6, 1975. In

previous years this was the

Mister Lees restaurant and

cocktail lounge.


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.

All but 10 acres

of the estate of

Kate L. Gilbert,

bordering the

Patchogue

River, was

auctioned off in

July 1913. A

second auction

was held in

September1913 for the

remaining 10

acres, including

the main house.

The Carman Estate was the first large

estate in Patchogue to be auctioned. The

date was Saturday, February 22, 1913.

The Boyle Estate, the last of the large

Patchogue estates was auctioned on

September 5, 1925.

Estate Auctions


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EarlyAutomobiles


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Howard S. Conklin, the owner of a stationary store on South

Ocean Avenue, was also a photographer whom we have to thank

for hundreds of photographs of Patchogue. He was especially

fascinated with automobiles. Whenever he spotted a new kind of a

car coming through Patchogue, he would ask the driver to let him

take a picture. These are some of his pictures of automobiles.

Howard S. Conklin and wife with his personal automobile.

John Foleys automobile in front of Roes Hotel, July 19, 1904.


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A Packard on South Ocean

Avenue, July 29, 1910.

R.J. Skolers Maxwell,

April 20, 1907.

W.M. Harrisons automobile, May 8, 1905.

W.M. Harrisons automobile,

May 8, 1905.


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Mr. Ball and his 1902 Whitein front of Howard Conklins

store, September 1, 1904.

Mr. Conroy and his auto, August

30, 1904. The white coat, cap

and glasses for men and veils for

women were mandatory equip-

ment in the days of open cars

and dusty roads.

Edwin Bailey and his grandchil-

dren with his Ford automobile

in front of his home on Baker

Street in the year 1906.


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Robert Baileys 1910E.M.F.

Cars are getting better, as this 1918 picture shows.

Photo taken at Weeks Garage in the Roe Court.

Mr. King, a local furniture merchant and his

early version of a delivery truck, fully loaded.

No need to raise the car to

inspect it underrneath, they

were high enough of the

ground to crawl under.

An unknown make automobile in front of

Roes Hotel, 1910.


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Now there is a high price car, a

Rolls Royce.

Mrs. Emma Norton and Mrs. Abbot in

front of the Norton house, 272 EastMain Street, corner of Potter Street.

The Reverend Havens and his

family posing for a picture on

this automobile, June 28, 1904.


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Now this is what one would

call a major tune up! Or are

these mechanics building a

car from a do it yourself kit?

The scene is at J.O. Hulses

garage at 52 West Main Street

and the year is c. 1905.

And some people prefer

a beautiful horse any-

time over a noisy auto-

mobile. This picture of

Edgar Sharp and his

horse and buggy was

taken in 1903. Edgar

Sharp had an insurance

and real estate office in

the Mills building.

This is definitely ayoung fellows car, just

the bare essentials.


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The 1944Four Cornersgroup picture


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In 1944 all Patchogue citizens were invited to take part in a 360

degree group photo shot staged at the Four Corners. This picture

was sent to all the soldiers from Patchogue serving in the Armed

Forces. It was impossible to fit the picture in its original format in

this book, so it had to be divided into sections.


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The PatchogueRailroad Station


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A 1900 picture of the station.

The train from New York

arriving at the station. The

jitneys are lined up and

waiting to bring their

costumers to the hotels.

It looks like a Sunday evening in

the summertime. The visitors areleaving on the New York train.


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On a hot summer weekend

the railroad station would

become a very busy place.

A train approaching the Ocean

Avenue crossing c.1905. The

switching tower had not been

built at this time.

An elevated view of the

Patchogue railroad yard

and station, taken fromthe smoke stack of the

Bailey Mill.


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A Pennsylvania Railroad

steam engine just east ofthe South Ocean Avenue

railroad crossing in 1936.

Steam engines are now

much bigger and much

more powerful than in the

early years of the century.

1955 was the last year of

steam engine service on the

Long Island Railroad.

The Cannonball train, 1967. The old style railroad cars in the 1950s.

This is a Pennsylvania loaner car.

The Patchogue railroad yard in

the 1940s during the last years

of steam.


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A 1962 Jim Mooney aerial

photo of the Patchogue rail-

road station, taken before the

renovation. South Ocean

Avenue is running across the

bottom of the picture.

The station and parking lot in 1962.

In the course of the next year the

station building would be torn downand the parking lot modernized.

The end of the old 1889 station building

came in May 1963. Here Mayor Waldbauer,

operating the crane, takes the first bite out of

the station roof.

The demolition is getting serious now.


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Another Jim Mooney Eagle Eye Air Photo, this time of the renovated railroad

station, taken September 28, 1963.

Opening day of the rebuilt Patchogue railroad station, September1963. This

was also the year of Patchogue Villages 70th anniversary. Mayor Waldbauer is

at the microphone. To the left of the podium in this picture sits senator Otis Pike

and on the right, Suffolk County Executive Lee Dennison.


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The last steam engine train at the

South Ocean Avenue crossing, Novem-

ber 26, 1967. This was a special train,

an organized last steam trip for fans on

the Montauk Line.

The local train service between

Babylon and Patchogue, called

Scoot, operated originally with

steam engines, but was con-verted to diesel power in 1949.

In 1955 a pair of R.D.C.s (Rail

Diesel Cars) took over this

service for a few years.

A diesel powered train in 1970.


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The Montauk train approaching Patchogue Station, October 23, 1976, This type rail-

road car was used from 1960 to the end of the century.

Railroad platform under construction. This new type platform was needed to accommodate the new

diesel electric trains coming into service.


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The new Railroad platform, July 1997

The new double-decker diesel-electric trains serving on the Montauk line now.


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An artists sketch of the Bailey Mill, ca. 1910. The street on the left is

West Avenue and the future bowling alley would be located on the

site of the foremost buildings in the picture.

The office staff of the Bailey Mill in 1930

Top row, L. to R.: Joseph Gould, Louis Rauch, Glen Hendrikson, George Andrechock, Charles Gould

Center row: Harry Beare, Gerard Hayduck, Lincoln Andrews, Charles Beurnier, Richard Lewis, Ivor Conklin

Front row: Fred C. Hendrikson, Lavern A. Walker, Robert Bailey, Mrs. H. Goodger, Mrs. D.C. Beurnier, Mrs.

Ruth Emison, Miss Kathleen Henshaw, Miss Irene Buxton, Oscar Allen, Arthur Lewis, Claude C. Conklin

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The Bailey Lumber Mill went out of business in

1939 and the site was taken over by the Bruns

Kimball Company in 1940. This company was

building aircraft rescue boats for the Defense

Department until their contract expired. In 1944 the

new occupant of the Bailey Mill site, the United

States Prefab Corporation, a subsidiary of the

Adirondack Log Cabin Company, was awarded a

government contract under the Land Lease Pro-

gram, to build thirty thousand prefab homes for

England, but this contract was cancelled after theconstruction of only 300 homes. This company

employed 353 people in 1944.

In the following years the mill complex was leased

to several other firms and manufacturers. On

November 22, 1951, a large fire, causing $500,000

damage, wiped out three firms leasing in the mill

and damaged a fourth. The National Lock Corner

Cabinet Corporation, Colonial Art, and the Castle

Silver Company were the firms totally wiped out.

The Castle Silver Company produced plated hol-

lowware and was finishing surgical instruments for

the Department of Defense, employing 35 people.

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