Handsome collection of 175 rare, early photographs document area's heyday as a lively summer vacation spot, with vintage pictures of mansions, stucco cottages, and grand hotels; bathers on the beach; carousels, vaudeville houses, rides, saloons, dance halls, and other tourist attractions. Extensive, well-researched captions accompany photos.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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A wish to time travel to 1880's Rockaway.,
By John P. Dolan (Englewood, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Old Rockaway, New York, in Early Photographs (Paperback)
Old Rockaway, New York in Early Photographs, exceeded my expectations! I thought it would provide a photographic history of perhaps the 1930's and 1940's. I was pleasantly surprised to find nineteenth century photographs of the peninsula in its true heyday. Having lived in Arverne during the 1960's and 70's, I was amazed to see that the rich and famous visited this area very similar to the way the rich and famous today visit the Hamptons on the east end of Long Island. As you view the postcards from this early era, you can actually see the unspoiled landscape of sand dunes and bay marshes that no longer exist. And the magnificent hotels and homes that graced this once popular resort prove to me that the City of New York truly mis-managed the development since the 1930's.
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Great to see the old neighborhood!,
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This review is from: Old Rockaway, New York, in Early Photographs (Paperback)
I would probably have given this book 5 stars if the Belle Harbor section (where I grew up in the 60's and 70's) had been better represented, but still, it was great to see the neighborhood I left as a teenager in 1976!For those that live --or lived-- there, especially if you spent any amount of time in Far Rock, you must get this book. To the authors: issue a revised edition with a more emphasis on everything West of Beach 116th Street... and I'll go 5 and a half stars in my next review!
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Old Rockaway, New York, in Early Photographs.,
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This review is from: Old Rockaway, New York, in Early Photographs (Paperback)
Simply the only printed information available about the Rockaways of yesterday. It seems that everyone has roots in this once grand seaside community and this book gives you hundred of old postcard views of the towns along the beach. There's not much left there from the old days and even fewer people left in the NYC slum who know how to read or right. So we'll bet that most of the sales of this book will be outside of Rockaway. But if you're heart's at the seashore, then Vincent and William's book should be in your library... EKG, (escaped to Long Beach, NY)
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