A Moment of Glory for 25 Main Street

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
The Hastings Historical Society
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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 […]

17 Dec 2009

Speed Demons of Hastings

December 17, 2009
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1900s, Collection

Gus Wagner’s goat cart with Ed Rohrbach at the reins, ca. 1910 By now you will have received your new Hastings Historian with the lead article by Bob Russell on the 1950s Hastings car club called the Driftin’ Shifters. The young mechanics in that club rebuilt and souped up old […]

10 Dec 2009

Hastings’ Model Orphanage

December 10, 2009
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1900s, Collection

Children from the New York Orphan Asylum in Hastings-on-Hudson with their donkey cart pulled by “Jack”, the school donkey. (All the pictures in this post are from Dr. Reeder’s 1909 book on the orphanage.) One hundred years ago, in the very southwest corner of Hastings, there was a model orphanage. […]

01 Dec 2009

Open House This Saturday, Dec. 5th

December 1, 2009
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1880s, 1890s, Collection, Society Events

Now that Thanksgiving is over and the last slice of pumpkin pie has been eaten, we can turn our attention to the next set of holidays! We don’t often open the cottage on a Saturday, but in honor of the season we are going to have an open house this […]

26 Nov 2009

Thanksgiving – Hastings Style

November 26, 2009
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1920s, 1970s, Collection

Cover of Hastings House Restaurant’s Thanksgiving menu, ca. 1974 With money as tight as it is these days, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to step into a time machine that would take you back to an era when you could have a full Thanksgiving dinner in a restaurant […]

19 Nov 2009

Mystery Photo: Anaconda’s Weatherproofing Department

November 19, 2009
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1940s, 1950s, Mystery Photos

One of the departments at Anaconda Wire & Cable Company that employed women was the weatherproofing department. There, the women operated the machines that covered copper cable with cotton braid impregnated with a weather-proofing substance. In these photographs, however, the ladies are having some kind of party — complete with […]