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111 38 BROOKLYN EAGLE, FEB. 18, 1951 Spots Bobsled Pals in Photo Editor Old Timers: Aircraft Plants Bring Tenants to Apartments Camp Mills Yields To Spread of New Home Colonies The increased tempo of war I have been a reader of your paper for the past 40 years, and have often wondered why there were not more articles on the Old Camp Mills In Garden City, L. has become the site of a new low cost home devel production in Long Island air-traft plants has brought an unexpected rush of tenants to Great Neck Terrace garden apartment, 256th St. and Cutter Mill Great Neck, L. it was reported yesterday by Ir-Mn E.

Steinthal, manager of the 28 buildings comprising the 652-unit project. Fewer than 100 apartments remain to be rented, he said. opment. This historic camp, which dates back to Revolu Old Timers Page about good old East New York, when much to my surprise last Sunday there appeared a picture of a number of kids on a bobsled. tionary days, has been pur chased by Eagle Rock Estates, which is now erecting 169 Well.

I happen to be one of them and am going to give you homes on 55 acres of the property. the names of the rest. Camp Mills was last occupied I called Mr. Ernst and he got by the 69th Regiment and was quite a kick out of hearing Before You Buy also the location for the motion from one of the kids In the pic picture about that famous fight ture. Standing In front of him ing group.

are Benny and Ray Thome who According to Fabian and Raymond Alexander and Jack lived at 72 Elton St. and directly in back of him is their brother Freddie. Farber, the builders, first occu p. vN 7 (, Next is Herbert Hauck who lived at 54 Elton St. and then I come (Anna C.

Booth) of 58 Elton St. In the back of me is SCREENS or COMBINATION DOOR Investigate John Hauck. Next is my sister pancy in Eagle Rock Estates will be in early Spring. A completely furnished and decorated model home is located on Willow and Boyleston Sts. in Garden City.

These new homes, designed by Andrew Fritz and Anthony Salvati, architects, offer five rooms, full basement and a large expansion attic for two more rooms and RUSCO Irene, then my brother Dave and Jamie Alexander who lived at 62 Elton and then an OLDTIME GRIDDERS These fine lads ployed footboll back in 1926 as members of an aggregation known as the Monroe Club of Bay Ridge, according to Franklin M. Souls, who sent in the photo for the Old Timers Page. other of the Hauck boys, Eugene. The little fellow on the tail bath. end is Frankie Stubbs who lived at 76 Elton St.

Many a Less Than 5,000 Phones IKwcSJOIflCliers good time we had on that sled, Those were the good old days ANNA C. BOOTH. 85-11 Lefferts Boulevard Richmond Hill 18. From Red Hook to Montauk In Era of Famed fScoo Was' Keeps the Record Straight Editor Old Timers: Editor Old Timers: To Dan: The boys have sure enough- hauled that poor horse (and dead, too) all over the Stuyvesant-BedfOrd section. I Wall Family of Williamsburg Operated First-Class Hotel It would have done a lot of old time Brooklynltes good to can hear you, Nick Flood and Charlie Kirk getting belly have been In the company of the Telephone Pioneers at their As the saying goes, "Keep the record straight," I would like to put a few oldtime readers straight on the Columbia St.

tea store. The name of the store was not McGoody's but McGahie. It was at 321 Columbia right off Hamilton Ave. For the purchase of tea and coffee, customers would be given a ticket or check. My Carl Schmitt, Pat McCarren and George Owens were only a sprinkle of its habitues.

JanuaTy meeting in the Tele Upon the demise of the family laughs over the matter, to say nothing of how Joe Brady must have enjoyed the last accounts of it all. Joe must be glad to rid himself of the old-bout on Harry Lauder. But I did note that a FULL SEAL! Seals in ONE PIECE NO SEAMS NO LAPS Editor Old Timers: Having received several requests to write a few more reminiscences of old Williamsburg, I yield cheerfully to the task. Seemingly, every nook and corner of this section has been penned by numerous worthy scribes In the past. However, building afterwards became Police Headquarters.

Out on Long Island most of the exchanges were located in the back of drug stores; Free-port Exchange on Main Say-i ville Exchange in Thornhill drug store; Greenport Exchange in a drug store near the Shelter Island ferry, in which the operator also took care of the Eastern Union Telegraph Company wire to Orient Point, and the hotel was taken over by the two Andrews brothers (An phone' Building on Bridge St. We dropped in for a visit with Bill Eaton, president of the group, on a little business matter and he surprised us with an drews Hotel). They gave it a mother, like, all others, saved them up to obtain utensils or Mrs. Mandel mentioned having! seen the famed comedian at toys around Christmas. It was "invite" to attend the meeting I have discovered a spot that Outside Walls Waterproofed a great neighborhood in the old days.

But since the tunnel as we were a pioneer at the time Henry Hesterberg and the Fulton Theater in her article. Shall we take that up again, Joe? All Types if Buildings, New ir Oil thorough renovation and, catering to a quiet, conservative clientele, were very successful. They had a niece Ada, a charming blonde, a classmate of the writer, "and many a time and oft" did we share, with the other lads and lassies of the neighborhood, the wonderful i was memorable in tne uay 90's" which apparently has escaped the ink refer to 70 S. 9th Alwaya alaca Tta aaiar kara I caajita tiara wiatkw ar term apa SAVE 35 Fuel Cost FiBftrfif tantilatioa coatrol aaraita yea to kara wiatlowi apaa, ufa frea thoarart aad draft axaoaara. Jul Uwtf atoia task alo alaca water ibilt aa mi tteitft potiiioa aaaaar.

lu to deu iatida tk aaasa. luy to ipwtto imidt tk konia. Cootroli froitief ar ilttninj ot wradowt. fftsteU Nowl Pay at LJHe as $5 Moathly 4-8000 a. came in, the view, buildings and neighborhood have van Jack Hesterberg were on the therefore had to be a telegraph operator also.

About 1910 this large brown- In Patchogue the exchange payroll as clerks. Others at that time Included John Lally, a son of Fire Chief Laliy, and Jimmie At "the era of the dead horse I lived on Monroe St. near Marcy but I cannot say I witnessed any policeman in that neighborhood who was capable of shouldering Dobbin ished. JOHN McGUIRE. 1386 Bushwlck Bkln.

7. Record Canadian Trade Ottawa, Feb. 17 (U.R) stone "mansion" was the home of the Cleary family, intimate Tighe, son of Magistrate Tighe, was In a small room in the Newins Building on the floor above where the Woolworth store is now. It was one of the lawn parties at the Prospect Park picnic grounds. In after years Ada became very prominent in the enter friends of mine, John and the late Tom occupying important of the old Butler St.

Court, in fact those mentioned were in and running a mile and a half, as Mr. Flood asserted. (Cut It Pays for ftseff i Rock Wool I INSULATION 9 Makea Tr Hon Uveaklt Savn Faet! FREE ESTIMATES Ha OkkiatUnt 8 Canada's total trade reached an all-time high during the first six taining field, but her uncles posts in the advertising department of the Brooklyn Eagle. But prior to the Cleary family taking possession, it was known months of 1950, the Bureau of were forced to suspend busi out, Nick!) I think that Billy Joyce, now the service of the company years before many of those present at thi meeting of the Statistics said today. Exports ness, as the hotel was razed to reached $1,431,000,000.

Imports as the "Wall Mansion. associated with the William Morris Agency, could give Ray Pioneers. were valued at $1,453,000,000 few that gave night service and had a letdown cot attached to the wall for the boy operator to sleep on as he awaited the gong that signalled that a sub-scriber wanted to make a call. Hicksville Exchange was In a store on Broadway. The operator had a daughter for her make room for the Williams-burg Bridge.

If I can be of any assist Like the sugar barons, Dicks We gabbed about old Wil RUSCO TRIPLE SERVICE WINDOWS 761 Ea.t 42nd B'klyn, N. Y. PIM tend your representativa to my horn to give me an estimate. Caiement Conventional NAME 5 ADDRESS (ASCAP) Walker a right steer and Mollenhauers, and the Wur- liamsburg with Bill Pitcher. He remembered Dr.

Smith, whose on wno may nae nuen sters Appleeates, Vogels and ance towards penning other Molly the iews i.iri mit sne Gravs of the neighborhood, the Williamsburg reminiscences, I ALTERATIONS HOME REPAIRS phone number was Williamsburg 1 and who was a Fire De flldnt live on KOSCIUSKO uptp folks nf in-lawait th rtlri Timpra mm. PHONE MA.2-2848U 9 Billy was a great piano playerfluence an(j affluence. At thatmands, for, as Shakespeare said relief and her husband was the partment surgeon. The doctor in the old vaudeville days. trouble shooter.

time thev operated the onlyiin his Merchant of Venice son was also a telephone em Take that horse away! Ha, Ha! first-class hotel in Williamsburg1 Babylon Exchange was In a ployee and with the Harden brothers, who led the parade Specialists Overhead Garage Doors The Wall House on Bedford Ave. and S. 5th St. (It was the store on Deer Park near Main St. Hempstead Exchange 4 TOD COLVIN.

85 Lawrence Brooklyn 30. over the Williamsburg Bridge on opening day with a decorated wont of prominent persons in "Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut alabaster." KERAN GUILFOYLE, 49 Maple Floral Park, N. GEDKY 4-1111 Ut Mr. Arnold Modarnii every walk of life to frequent was upstairs at the corner of Main and Front where the Howard Clothes store is now. There the company tried out selective ringing in the days of the magnetic system when one its grill.) Jack Dempsey (The Nonpareil), Jack McAuliffe, Joe Cain, Doc Hughes, Doc Sautter, ROOFING SIDING CARPENTRY Basements Finished truck and did trucking work for the telephone company at that time.

One of the younger Hardens Is now Dr. Harden, a veternarlan, who probably got interested in his vocation through his long association f. fJOOODC D0000C II i loooDoc mr Years to Pay! Says 'Lemon Time' Favors Calling Narrows Bridge. Roofing with the fine horses the brothers owned. John Mc- had to turn a crank to signal the operator and then ring again to sign off.

This system used the positive side of the line for the ringing circuit for one party and the negative side for the other. If there were more Alteraboui, Painting and Decora Use JMill-Minvlllt, Ir.l rttt. CvMla tMd. tlMr lMnw ikM. Mahon, of the 9th Ward, recent 'Liberty Bridge1 ARNT WALAAS 857 54th ST.

ULster 4-0066 All Vfrk tuMrvlMft! Really Did Apply To Some Old Acts ly retired, listened In. John Rourke of Williams Siding ky MKUntta In CtMn. rilntkitt, tarltr DKIrirn Hit Editor Old Timers: burg was chief of construction InMlbria. atlw fa. parties added there were two rings or three rings used to call cartful alinnlna Ida cl I read with Interest the ar mart btauty, tralttr 4 for the company during the early 1900s.

His field assistant ticle headed, "Asks War Memo Carpentry ChMk tur taw trltaa Editor Old Timers the subscriber. The party designations at that time were A. B. F. I.

M. O. thereby PEPER BROS. art aaraaittry The article entitled, "A Bit of was John C. Peaty of the old Sixth Ward, where he ran for rial Be Shrine for Prayers to End 'Cycle of and fully Mmrcrt ytur ktni at iraatir Hantmy.

Heating BrickWork Hollywood Kitchens vark af all kiaaa. Heather Stone Alderman around 1904. Jimmie Info to Enlighten Old Theater Goers," written by Arthur permitting a total of eight parties that could be hooked up to one number. Jones was a clerk until he took A Una Italia far agree with this sentiment. However, In view of marked Let ua help you plan and convert your home Into two or more famillea We Will Make Plant For Yo.

Write or phone for our expert to call at your home to eive complete Information no obligation. AluaaiBaaa Waltile for Kilckeai aid Balk Roaau Palatial and Dacoratioai UP TO 1 YEARS TO PAY HONEST WORK AT FAIR PRICES SINCE 1916 Ola'l Baildnf Comtructorl, lac. OLE KVENVIK, Pres. 6115 Fifth B'klyn 20, N.T, GEDNEY 9-7738 IrMtti, tatlra tmaaa. the Tire Department examina Burns, was very much enjoyed.

Iron Work Chain Link Fences tion and became a fireman. He But in order that Burns and Far Frta titlautaa Call Day. Nlikt 4 taaaMy public sentiment for a war memorial to those who made retired about 20 years ago as an other "Old Theater Goers" may engineer. John Whalen and Al have a little more information Dunn, clerks also, were among those in Windsor Terrace who were members of the famous jthe great sacrifice in the cause i of 'liberty, no more outstanding I memorial could be dedicated to our heroes than to name the It Was 'Queens' Then Queens Village, then' called Queens, had an experimental system also. There was a dial on the ringing box in which.

there were numbered holes. To make a call you placed a peg, suspended in front of the dial. permit me to state the follow ing: Scoo Was, a social and charit 1531 FUiknk ATa Irooklr. It, T. The Bushwirk Theater was proposed Narrows Bridge, Lib able organization.

George Bush opened as a new show house in was a rookie lineman who erty Bridge. Liberty is a glorious word, OVERHEAD GARAGE DOOR SPECIALISTS worked on the installation of 1910 by Percy Williams and into the hole with the selected Liberty itself is the hope and the telephones along the line showed big time vaudeville. Ea7 Operating, Single or Double Cualom Built Doora Wood, Steel or Aluminum 8x7 1-piect Door, $85, Intlnlled of march of the first Coney In 1908 the Broadway Thea Island Mardi Gras parade. He A door fit any ter at Broadway and Myrtle SINGLE ROLL 29e 39c 49c aspiration of the world. Applied to this project, it endows it with a name venerated throughout the land.

The proposed span will stretch from one historic fort-Iress to another. It will be a Ave. was leased and managed is now at the fire alarm telegraph station, Empire Bolevard and Washington Ave. number and then rang your party direct. In Tort Jefferson there was a village system and each subscriber had a lead cable of several wires leading into their home that enabled subscribers there to call each other without the service of faraf At iaiaioal cearae by Leo C.

Teller. The folUw 1 Old faraaa eitended te (H oar sew car Complete aew farafei Wailt at kome ar afar mg year it became known as Early Bay Exchanges Formerly Sold From 754 to $1.75 Single Roll Patterns for every room Teller's Broadway Theater A Tear guarantee The Sam S. Shubert Theater mnm In those early days there were less than 5,000 phones on bridge symbolic of our human bridge that spanned the seas Bring room measurements. Trimmed FREE at Howard Ave. and Monroe St Aa eitimate free an operator.

That central station was in a drug store also. Long Island from Red Hook1 was opened under the direction to France in World War I and the liberation of the world in World War II. It will arch the Point to Montauk Point. Now Several telephone companies of the Shubert Theatrical Company and the manager was L. JIM McKEON, Contractor 1133 82d St.

BE. 6-3742 portal of the high seas that tried Long Island as a field but were bought up or passed WE STOCK LARGE SELECTION Of WALLTEX IN EVERY BRANCH STORE CONGOWALL 10c SQUARE FOOT PAINT SPECIALS J. Rodrigues. In 1912 this thea- leads to "over there." there are that many In a couple of the big buildings on Court at Borough Hall. Bedford out of business as most of the This monumental suspension eer was taken over by the Loew's Theatrical Enterprises and a few years later Leo C.

bridge will be a feature of seen Exchange was over a bakery at Throop Ave. and Decatur ic attraction to tourists from inui Teller took it over and called uiiiiiiim' i gal. gal. all parts of the globe. Its heroic East New York Exchange was it Teller's Shubert.

Master Painters Flat White-Master Painters Gloss DeKalb White Enamel Island from Jamaica out "took in the sidewalks" and closed up about 9 p.m. The Knickerbocker Company tried out the Rockaways, the Roanoke and Baiting Hollow Company op- erated out of Rrverhead. The proportions and its artistic lines on Pennsylvania near At will be a source of esthetic In Qt. 85c -Qt. 1.15- lantic, and on rainy days the The Fifth Ave.

Theater was opened in 1911 and managed by W. H. Saxe. It opened with Perfect Finish Enamel spiration and influence to the operators had to keep their feet gai. -gal.

-gal. gal. gal. Turpentine, Seoled Can on the rungs of their stools as small time vaudeville and pic local communities. THEODORE BKLZNER, Turpentine, Your Can tures.

Later it changed its Dolicv and became an Italian -Qt. 85c latter conpany had Joseph Backus, son of the then District Attorney of Kings, as lineman and trouble shooter with his Solaray Paints, AH Colors Linseed Oil, Sealed Can Planning to Modernize Convert or Repair Your Home? 2014 Ryder Brooklyn 34 stock company house. Finally the water came in along the floor. Prospect Exchange was in a store on 7th Ave. near Berkeley Place, Bay Ridge Exchange was in a small store on 57th St.

east of Third Linseed Oil, Your Con it eave way to movies. gal. gal. -5 gal. can 5 gal.

can Regarding the term "lemon Roof Coating Roof Cement wife attending to the switchboard. The South Shore Tele-phone Co. never did get beyond the blueprint stage. time." it might have neen Prospect Park Carousel Was a Joy of His Youth Editor Old Timers: foteign expression among show Borough Park Exchange was a small board In the rear of a 1 u. i 1 VT TT1 1A We get back to Brooklyn men in those days, but believe me it sure was a good name for Recent letters about the drug store oh New Utrecht at about 56th Bath 5 ft.

Step Lodder 6 ft. Step Lodder 20 ft. Extension Ladder twood) 24 ft. Extension Lodder (wood) 20 ft. Extension Lodder (aluminum).

28 ft. Extension Ladder (aluminum). some of the acts. again and find the Flatbush exchange in a building on Flat-bush opposite Martense carousel in Prospect Park brings back pleasant memories of the Beach Exchange was In the VAUDEVILLE ADMIRER. rear of a drug store on 18th bt on the floor above the ntnr good old days In that beautiful south of Cropsey Pi looking for In-Law Coney Island Exchange was in Writa ut for advice and recommendations for finding dependable contractors or where to obtain quality materials.

Please mention the type of materials you need or the kind of work you want done. park. My father always had a couple of horses but I got more that housed tee Flatbush Post Office. Those were the real pioneer days with the company. If you Editor Old Timers: the rear of Chambers' drug store and later In an extension of that building on Surf PEPER BROS.

OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9 P. M. pleasure riding the carousel I enjoy reading the Old Timers' page. It brings back horses in dear Prospect Park. r3 many wonderful memories.

naa 10 worK Flushing or away out in Lynbrook the com-pffny paid your hotel bills. That was pre-arranged bw 417 De Kalb Brooklyn. MAin 2-7300 I believe it would be a delignt' ful treat for the voung Hopa Sheepshead Bay Exchange was on Voorhies Lane, in the rear of a building, housing a saloon, that faced on Shore Road. tnanes Gorevin, now would HKe to locate my brother-in-law whom I haven't seen since 191.1. Mrs.

THEODORE L. WEBER, 337 48th Brooklyn 20. Main Exchange was housed! in tne Maolstrat. rn.trt long Cassidys if the carousel were restored. Also, may I say it was wonderful to visit the park with mv cood mother and look at -u- lou .1 was a clerk in the transporta-building on bmith in the tinn rMvisinn Hon division.

There was a limit Nrwark 93 RrnaHway HUmboldt 2-4589 Nrwark 291 Spnngfirld Ave. Blgtlow 3-17 Jfriey City 161 Jackatn Ave. DEIaware 3-5669 Paterion 372 Main St. SHerwood 2-8053 Brooklyn 1321 Crrrne Ave. GLenmore 5-2255 Long Iiland 85-18 lamaica Ave.

Virginia 7-6316 New York City 1540 lt Ave. cor. 60th St. REgent 7-2107 New York City 571 6th Ave. eor.

16th St. CHelaea 2-3939 between middle of the block BUILDERS SERVICE BUREAU BROOKLYN EAGLE 24 Johnson Brooklyn 1, N. Y. the wonderful sheep grazing on Fulton and Livingston Sts. Be of two dollars per day for each person.

E. M. LOUER, 617 Sterling Place, Bklyn 1H fore being moved into the first "GOIXG PLACES?" PHONE MA. 44200 FOR IDEAS MOX A.M.-3 P.M. the meadows.

JOHN J. NOONAN. 283 E. 3d Brooklyn. Telephone Building at 81 Wil-loughby St.

The Smith St WE DELIVER.