The Hastings Historical Society

18 Feb 2010

Anaconda Demolition Videos

February 18, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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News/Current Events

We are delighted to report that James Dean’s video of the Anaconda building site demolition is back on YouTube! Click on the screen below to start the video rolling. And if you just can’t get enough waterfront clearance, James has also posted a sped-up compilation of all the demolition footage […]

11 Feb 2010

Happy Birthday Hastings Theater

February 11, 2010
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1920s, Collection, Reminiscences

The Hastings Theater in 1929 Today is the 90th birthday of the Hastings Theater, which opened amid great fanfare on February 11th, 1920. We are lucky enough to have an eye-witness account of this event written in 1967 by Steve Zebrock (also known by his stage name of Alan Brock). […]

04 Feb 2010

Out of the Blue

February 4, 2010
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1940s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Draper Cottage must have been built on a field of four-leafed clovers. That is the only explanation of the incredible luck the Hastings Historical Society seems to have. We have a question, and miraculously, within two or three days, someone will call or e-mail with the answer. We start researching […]

02 Feb 2010

Anaconda Video Removed

February 2, 2010
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1950s

We are sorry to relate that ARCO has asked James Dean to remove his YouTube video of the building demolition referred to in the last post. If we can get permission to show it on the internet, we will include it in a future post. Meanwhile, for those of you […]

28 Jan 2010

Good-bye Research Building

January 28, 2010
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1950s, Industry/Commerce

If there is a fascination in watching building construction, there is an equal fascination in watching demolition, especially of a building you have come to see as a permanent part of your village sky line. On January 27th, Southside Avenue resident James Dean recorded the final demise of Anaconda Wire […]

21 Jan 2010

A Moment of Glory for 25 Main Street

January 21, 2010
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1950s, Collection, Reminiscences

By Judy (Wemer) Chamberlain Movie crew in front of 25 Main Street, transformed with temporary tiling and potted plants into a Santa Barbara restaurant. (photo copyright Anne Marie Leone) Hastings was all a buzz this past summer with the news that a movie was being filmed on Main Street. It […]

14 Jan 2010

Mystery Photograph: Ferrera’s Meat Market

January 14, 2010
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1950s, Collection, Mystery Photos, Reminiscences

Back in 2008 when Carol Venuto Davis wrote her wonderful article for the Hastings Historian on her house at 4 Spring Street, she included this photograph of herself (right) and her sister Priscilla (peeking over her shoulder) in Fererra’s meat market, taken around 1953. We recently asked her to tell […]

07 Jan 2010

Veselykh Sviat! (Happy Holidays!)

January 7, 2010
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1920s, Collection

The Historical Society does not own as many photographs of holiday festivities as we would like, but here is an exception. Nine members of the Hastings Ukrainian American Society pose for the camera in the costumes that they wore when they went out caroling on Christmas Eve, which by the […]

31 Dec 2009

A Joyful New Year

December 31, 2009
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1880s, Collection

When icicles hang by the wall,And Tom bears logs into the hall,When blood is nipt and ways be foul,Then nightly sings the staring owl,Tu-whoo! Tu-whit; tu-whoo!— Shakespeare We are starting to develop quite a nice collection of 19th- and 20th-century greeting cards here at the Historical Society. This is one […]

24 Dec 2009

Volumes of Good Wishes from the Historical Society

December 24, 2009
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1900s, 1910s, Collection

In 1982 Algernon Gordon Smith, known to his Hastings friends as Gordon, gave the Historical Society a small scrapbook of greeting cards, two of which you see here. Gordon was a third generation Hastings-ite, and he and his wife were charter members of the society when it was founded back […]