The Mystery of the Mount Hope Tea House

29 Dec 2020

The Mystery of the Mount Hope Tea House

December 29, 2020
Richard Lovejoy
7503 Views
15 Likes
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 served customers […]

29 Jul 2010

Bringing History to Life in the 1920s

July 29, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
3000 Views
1 Likes
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 […]

01 Jul 2010

Heads Up – It’s the Hindenburg!

On the 9th of October 1936, retired chemist and camera buff A.C. Langmuir of 383 Broadway set up his camera to take a photograph of the zeppelin Hindenburg hovering above the Anaconda Wire & Cable Company on the waterfront. The same day, the following article appeared in the Yonkers Statesman […]

29 Apr 2010

Mystery Photo: 1938 High School Fire Squad

April 29, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
2658 Views
0 Likes
1930s, Collection, Mystery Photos

”FIRE SQUAD: The fire bell rings and students are efficiently rushed out of the building by the Fire Chief Albro Rile assisted by those ten strong men on the fire squad: Eben Chabot, John Moser, Walter Bennett, Jack Galvin, Frank Wills, Bill Burckhalter, Bill Kaufman, Joe Janik, and Chris Rohrbach.”

So […]

29 Oct 2009

Happy Anniversary A&P!

October 29, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
3825 Views
0 Likes
1930s, 1960s, Collection

By Judy Chamberlain During a recent trip to the A & P, I purchased some house blend coffee that came in a commemorative tin. The can’s copy heralds the dates 1859-2009 because the self-service chain is celebrating 150 years of service. The photo imprinted on the can reminded me of […]

10 Sep 2009

Mystery Photo: Portrait by Lewis Hine, ca. 1935

September 10, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
2646 Views
0 Likes
1930s, Collection, Mystery Photos

Among the 50-or-so original photographs in our collection by documentary photographer and Hastings resident Lewis W. Hine are these two pictures of a young man in a suit. Who is he? Why did Hine take his photograph? Did he win a prize? Was he captain of the football team? Does […]

06 Aug 2009

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

August 6, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
2322 Views
0 Likes
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, […]

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
2336 Views
1 Likes
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, […]

08 Jun 2009

The Sidewalks of Hastings

by Judy Chamberlain When I was almost seven, my parents trusted me to walk to and from church each Sunday with my cousin David. He was a year and a half older than I was, so I guess they figured he was responsible enough to see that I got to […]

01 Jun 2009

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

June 1, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
2585 Views
1 Likes
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 […]