Mystery Photo: Hillside Faculty, 1964

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
The Hastings Historical Society
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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, […]

09 Jul 2009

Mystery Photo: Baseball Players and Fans, ca. 1957

Here is one of our favorite Summer photographs. It shows seven players from the Hastings “Lions” and a few extra fans on the side. Friends of the society have identified a few of the boys — John Hirniak is on the far left, a Schnibbe boy is fifth from the […]

06 Jul 2009

Bottled in Hastings: Marc Rosner and the International Hotel

July 6, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1880s, Collection

Society member Marc Rosner is a chemistry teacher in the Hastings High School and an avid bottle and coin collector. Somehow, “avid” does not really seem to be a strong enough word to describe his passion for hunting through the backwoods of Westchester in his search for the perfect specimen. […]

02 Jul 2009

Mystery Photo: A Kindergarten Class ca. 1947

We have had so much trouble identifying these children that we sometimes wonder if the photograph was actually taken in some other town. We know nothing about the photograph, and we are only guessing that it is a kindergarten class from the late 1940s. Do you recognize any one of […]

29 Jun 2009

The Early Years of the Hastings Literature Club

June 29, 2009
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1900s, Collection, Reminiscences

By Julia House Editor’s Note: This year the Hastings Literature Club, the oldest cultural organization in Hastings, celebrates its 100th anniversary. Its first president was Julia House, author of last week’s reminiscence on the village in the first decade of the 20th century. Julia and John House lived in the […]

25 Jun 2009

Mystery Photo: Dedication of Hillside Park Swimming Pool

June 25, 2009
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1960s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Here are three photographs of the dedication ceremony for the Hillside Park Swimming Pool. They were taken in 1965, though we don’t know the exact date. Perhaps it was late spring, at the beginning of the pool season. After the death of young Julius “Butch” Chemka in 1983, the swimming […]

22 Jun 2009

Our Village in 1909

June 22, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, Collection, Reminiscences

by Julia House Editor’s Note: As much fun as it is to look at hundred-year-old photographs of Hastings, it’s even more exciting to have someone tell us what Hastings was really like in 1909. This reminiscence is an edited version of “A Long Look Backward,” an article written by Julia […]

18 Jun 2009

Mystery Photo: High School Gym Class?

June 18, 2009
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1950s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Here are four photographs showing girls in what seem to be school gym uniforms. We’re guessing that the photographs were taken some time in the early 1950s. In the top photograph, one of the girls is holding a baseball bat. In one of the others, the girls are holding batons […]

15 Jun 2009

The New Historian Mails Today!

June 15, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, Collection, Society Events

Today the hardy Historical Society volunteers gather once more to prepare the Hastings Historian for the post. They have even more work than usual because this Historian is going to all the households in the village – more than 4,000 of them! No one who has followed the Society’s doings […]