The Mystery of the Mount Hope Tea House

29 Dec 2020

The Mystery of the Mount Hope Tea House

December 29, 2020
Richard Lovejoy
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1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Hastings History, Hudson Heights, Mount Hope Boulevard

by Richard Lovejoy

Recently Michelle Bohuniek, a former Hastings resident, asked us for any information we might have about her former residence at 357 Mt. Hope Boulevard. Specifically, she was interested in what we knew about a tea room that she had heard operated in her house and […]

29 Jul 2010

Bringing History to Life in the 1920s

July 29, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1920s, 1930s, Hastings History

Pocahontas and John Rolfe, after their wedding in the Jamestown church, from Jamestown, one of the Chronicles of America Photoplays.
If you had been sitting in the Hastings school auditorium on Friday, September 16th, 1932, you might well have seen the wedding of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. It would […]

24 Jun 2010

Josephine Selvaggio: Hastings Commuter

June 24, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1920s, Collection

After last week’s post, it seems appropriate to introduce you to one of the Hastings commuters who brought the floors of Grand Central Station to such a state of disrepair. Her name is Josephine Selvaggio of 22 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, and she is 25 years old. It is 1926, and […]

11 Feb 2010

Happy Birthday Hastings Theater

February 11, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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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). […]

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 […]

26 Nov 2009

Thanksgiving – Hastings Style

November 26, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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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 […]

08 Oct 2009

The New “Hastings Historian” Mails Today!

October 8, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1920s, Collection, Society Events

“Babe” Ruth and Hastings mayor Thomas F. Reynolds Your next issue of the Hastings Historian contains many fascinating articles — articles about how Hastings got its name and about Hastings’ first ambulance, plus a wonderful reminiscence on gym class in the early 1960s. It also contains a plea from Frank […]

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, […]

01 Jun 2009

Lewis W. Hine’s photographs of Hastings in the George Eastman House collection

June 1, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1920s, 1930s

Part II Photo courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film In last Monday’s post we showed you three of Lewis Wickes Hine’s photographs of our town, and here are a few more. They were all taken after 1917, when Hine moved his family to Hastings. Over […]

25 May 2009

Lewis W. Hine’s photographs of Hastings in the George Eastman House collection

May 25, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1920s, 1930s

Part I By now you surely know that the famous photographer Lewis Wickes Hine was a Hastings resident. Hine moved to Edgars Lane in 1917 and remained there until his death in 1940. Hine is perhaps best known for his photographs of children working in mines and cotton mills, which […]