The Hastings Historical Society

13 Aug 2009

Mystery Photo: Uniontown Hose Company in 1959

August 13, 2009
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1950s, Collection, Mystery Photos

This photograph, dated 1959 and showing the Uniontown Hose Company in full dress uniform, was donated to the Historical Society by the Rivertowns Enterprise. The firemen are standing in front of their brand new firehouse on Rose Street, which was dedicated on Saturday, December 6, 1959. This photograph may have […]

10 Aug 2009

Admiral Farragut: Legends of a Hastings Hero

August 10, 2009
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1860s, Collection, Reminiscences

Part II: I Sailed With Farragut

Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (for more information about any photograph, click the image)
Last week’s post included several stories about David Glasgow Farragut’s early days in Hastings in 1861. But the reminiscences of Civil War times that were printed in the local papers in […]

06 Aug 2009

Mystery Photo: Theatrical Performance with a Nautical Theme, ca. 1935

August 6, 2009
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1930s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Detail of central section. For entire photograph, see bottom of post. Here is a real mystery. We know nothing about this photograph except that it includes Augusta Rieke (later Buckes). If you look at the entire photograph, below, you will see her in the front row, third from the right, […]

03 Aug 2009

Admiral Farragut: Legends of a Hastings Hero

August 3, 2009
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1860s, Civil War, Collection

Part I: How Farragut Came to Hastings

“Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!” Admiral Farragut in the rigging of his flagship, the ‘Hartford’, at the Battle of Mobile Bay. (Click on any of the photographs for more information.)
Before Billie Burke arrived to dazzle the village with the glamour of […]

30 Jul 2009

Mystery Photo: Boy Scouts at Anaconda, 1963

July 30, 2009
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1960s, Collection, Mystery Photos

We’d love to know the story behind these two photographs. All we know is the date: March of 1963. The man on the left looks like Harold Ormerod, manager of Anaconda Wire & Cable Company’s Hastings plant. Is it an award ceremony? What is the award and who are the […]

27 Jul 2009

Beneath Our Feet

July 27, 2009
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1890s, Collection

by Judy Chamberlain The Hastings waterfront in 1929. In a recent post, I wrote about walking on the bluestone slabs and asphalt hexagon tiles that lined the sidewalks of Warburton Avenue. Initially, I wasn’t aware that two local industries, which began in the 19th century and were located side by […]

23 Jul 2009

Mystery Photo: ‘V for Victory’ Dance, 1941

July 23, 2009
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1940s, Collection, Mystery Photos

This snapshot, while not of the best quality, is a wonderful document of Hastings during the war years, and we’d love to know who’s in it. It was taken by Dewey Kunze, who was a junior in the 1941-42 school year and photography editor for the yearbook. The Hastings Historical […]

20 Jul 2009

Hastings’ First Ambulance

July 20, 2009
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1950s, Collection

by Bob RussellEditor’s Note: Last year, member Bob Russell sent us three wonderful photographs of the ambulance that Hastings used before our first official ambulance arrived. Here is the story behind this unusual piece of machinery. Until the mid Fifties people were hastily driven to the hospital by family or […]

16 Jul 2009

Mystery Photo: Hillside Faculty, 1964

July 16, 2009
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1960s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Here’s another of our favorite photographs — it shows the entire faculty of Hillside Elementary School in 1964. It may not be quite as mysterious to us as some of the other photographs in our collection, since we know the names of many of the teachers. But some are still […]

13 Jul 2009

Inquiring Reporter Discovers What People Talk About When They Watch Workers Digging on Warburton Avenue

July 13, 2009
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1920s, 1930s, Collection

Editor’s Note: This was the headline for an anonymous article that appeared in the Hastings News in July of 1929. Below is an edited version of the article. Though the first two photographs were taken by A.C. Langmuir when the streets were being widened in September and October of 1929, […]