I remember when they moved the Garden City toll house , back in the 80's ,also drove a bus on a stretch of Motor Pkwy coming out of Ronkonkoma RR Station heading west ...
@circusitchАй бұрын
How is it possible to make a video with such bad sound and bad image quality?
@mine-g5o2 ай бұрын
I used ygo to that lake when I was a kid ,60 years ago !!! lol 😂
@rupe533 ай бұрын
Count me in as another who spent time at the lake in the 50s and 60s.... well before it got overrun with people from the city, changing the vibe.
@cau-sensation17683 ай бұрын
THE CORNER HOUSE RONKONKOMA NAME WAS KIM, MCGINNIS AMD HER BROTHER I FORGET HIS NAME ,,,
@seka19863 ай бұрын
It should be reopened immediately!
@MrDjh663 ай бұрын
I have to go back and walk around
@jny783 ай бұрын
Sad that much of beautiful Long Island is pretty much a dump.
@king1ny3 ай бұрын
Springfield Boulevard!!!
@dgreen66714 ай бұрын
You didn't mention the infamous gay bar KISS
@dgreen66714 ай бұрын
Thats accurate. Always a weedwhacker in the background
@rj45904 ай бұрын
I remember going to Raynor's in the late '50s and early '60s as a young kid. We would have family get together picnics inside where there were picnic tables and a bar set up for refreshments,then go change into bathing suits in the dark changing cabana type rooms outside.There were the big slides and a floating dive platform about seventy or so feet from shore.The old wood of Raynor's had a very distinctive pleasing aroma inside that is something that just sticks in my mind as I remember the good times we had there.
@MichaelDunetz4 ай бұрын
Father Insane!
@danbunge97874 ай бұрын
I grew up in the area till the 1970s. There were many interesting legends told about the lake.
@surfer195414 ай бұрын
Several teenagers died in Edgewood Hospital after it was closed....Teenagers would hang out and drink in the building, and start fooling around and a few fell down the elevator shaft where they died. NYS received a lot of complaints by the local community to tear the building down, which they eventually did....www.youtube.com/@surfer19541
@geminipiratelady754 ай бұрын
Such an awesome video! Thank you
@CruzanRastamon4 ай бұрын
My grandmother worked at Edgewood and my mother and father worked at Pilgrim state. I love the old 1932 map. The Pt.Jeff train line extended all the way to wading river.
@NativeNYer5 ай бұрын
I used 2 live on motor parkway in early 70's. Used 2 go 2 the lake all the time. There used 2 b a German restaurant on the lake. A friend drowned in the lake. So that's really sad 4 me.
@that1930sguy5 ай бұрын
Sorry you had to lose a friend to the lake, too many individuals spent there last minutes in that small but seemingly treacherous body of water. The German restaurant was aptly named the "Bavarian Inn" and I remember eating there myself. The remnants of the building were torn down about twenty years ago.
@9546aw5 ай бұрын
Now the sanitariums are closed and the former residents are living on the street. When you see a disheveled person wandering around pushing a supermarket cart with all their belongings these were the kind of people who used to live in these hospitals. Tell me what is worse: The conditions they had in these hospitals or living on the street?
@lauralindsley47405 ай бұрын
I am doing a Movie about My life Living Steps away from The Lake. My Husband was killed there. My family owned the hotel. And the rentals on the Lake. The Burkes My family. Loud Laura of the Lake. Watch for my Movie of my life at the Lake
@NYBeerMan6 ай бұрын
Clinton road is in Garden City. That tollhouse came from there.
@NYBeerMan6 ай бұрын
All of the tollhouses were not the same looking. Also where you were on jericho turnpike was an underpass under jericho turnpike for motor parkway and that is not in garden city.
@manuelkong106 ай бұрын
you can Try and explain away the drownings by talking about the depth of the lake, but it only hits that depth in a handful of spots WAY out where most people don't go. ALSO, the depth does Not account for the lop sided statistics in terms men and women drownings----157 male to 3 women
@rupe533 ай бұрын
bars nearby account for more than you think. Hold my beer and watch this!
@johntucci43066 ай бұрын
I was always led to believe that the northern state was the Vanderbilt motor Pkwy.
@that1930sguy6 ай бұрын
The Northern State did nearly parallel the old Vanerbilt at certain locations, but they were constructed at different time periods.
@VincentBasso-ix1zv7 ай бұрын
Vanderbilt parkway was not the first paved road in the U S. The advent of the bicycle brought the first paved roads.
@billywhalen4 ай бұрын
I think it is the first limited access long distance paved highway intended for motor vehicles
@mosbysmen7 ай бұрын
our family would swim there in the 1960"s
@LisaSorrentino-q4e7 ай бұрын
Abuse there
@LisaSorrentino-q4e7 ай бұрын
The abuse at that hospital was tragic
@richardbennett43657 ай бұрын
Our presenter here is confused with his vocabulary, and he says things that don't make sense. He refers to the residents (patients) at Kings Park Hospital as criminals, but in the next breath he mentions they are here not by having committed any crime. Well, the definition of a criminal is one who has broken the law and this is guilty of a crime. He means well, however. I can tell that much. He just refers to these human beings wrongly.
@that1930sguy7 ай бұрын
You are correct, "patients" would be the most appropriate term. I thank you for pointing that out.
@M4G4M4N7 ай бұрын
The bridge Paul Revere warned the soldiers?
@ashleyullrich92148 ай бұрын
OMG! 2:45 seconds into this and I am dazed by the camera action! Hold yourself still! I can’t do this!
@Ruckus61128 ай бұрын
She was such a beautiful and tragic soul. I hope that she now has found peace.
@that1930sguy9 ай бұрын
This link will take you to a Chicago Tribune newspaper cartoon about the Pulaski versus Crawford controversy. www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-crawford-vs-pulaski-car/143730739/
@Daninater9 ай бұрын
Great video, Tim!
@that1930sguy9 ай бұрын
Interestingly, I later also learned that Illinois' politicians were instrumental in blocking, over many decades, repeated efforts to build a multi-national St; Lawrence waterway (around the prohibitive St; Lawrence River rapids between New York and Canada) which would have greatly benefited all the other Great Lake states in providing an alternative route to the Atlantic and avoiding the expenses and bottlenecks of the Chicago canal system. There was a big push by the state of New York to make the St. Lawrence waterway a New Deal project in the mid-1930s, but the Congressional delegation of Illinois was able to rally nearly all the Mississippi River states to block the project. The St Lawrence waterway finally became a reality during the Eisenhower Administration.
@Daninater9 ай бұрын
@@that1930sguy I first heard about the importance of Chicago's waterways and railways in my Canadian history class. It's importance to agricultural trade for Canada. It's really cool to see you modern day on the infrastructure though. I wish I could go metal detecting or magnet fishing around the old canals and see what shows up.
@RadioWhoPoo11 ай бұрын
Great video, I wonder what Lake Ronkonkoma resident Maude Adams would've thought of the area now?
@that1930sguy11 ай бұрын
That is something to ponder!
@geminipiratelady754 ай бұрын
I thought her home went to the Cenacle...not sure if thats still around. I miss my home town. Thanks for the video
@ladyruby684 Жыл бұрын
A favorite hangout for us in the 80s & 90s. Great nostalgia.. from the old bookstore to the old Hallock House, this area captivated our imaginations.
@bruceglover7971 Жыл бұрын
The Vanderbilt Museum is NOT in Northport but rather in Centerport.
@that1930sguy Жыл бұрын
You are definitely correct, my error. It is a picturesque location but the seemingly perpetual backup at the traffic light at Little Neck Road and 25a is always a headache on the way out.
@MetalBlade81 Жыл бұрын
Very informative video thank you. They used to have a museum in the park district building but decided to get rid of it to make it a rental room unfortunately
@that1930sguy Жыл бұрын
That is unfortunate about the museum. I recently uncovered some other unique historical information on Worth, and I will most likely produce a part 2 to this video shortly, so stay tuned!
@tonycampanelli4938 Жыл бұрын
THIS GUY HAS NO IDEA ABOUT WHAT HE'S TAIKING ABOUT HE'S TAKEING OUT THE WRONG END I GREW UP IN LONG ISLAND THE END THAT YOU SIT ON . IT USED TO COUST 10 CENTS TO DRIVE ON THE SUTHEM STATE PARKWAY . IT A ASS H_________L
@rustbeltrobclassic2512 Жыл бұрын
That bookstore lasted into the early 00's, i remember the building being there as late as 2004..
@that1930sguy Жыл бұрын
Yes, I do have a recollection of that store being there in the early 2000s, but I am not certain it was operational.
@rustbeltrobclassic2512 Жыл бұрын
@@that1930sguy I think it burned down.. but I can't recollect if it was operational or just a building abandoned at that point..
@rachaelsauerbrunn3897 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting topic. Can you share some of your sources you used? I am writing a research paper on this topic.
@that1930sguy Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching and I will shortly get back to you on the main sources I used for that video.
@that1930sguy Жыл бұрын
Looking back on my research for that video, it appears that most of my sources came from local newspapers through the archives at newspapers.com, in particular the Chicago Tribune. In addition, I gained a significant amount of information from Recent Social Trends in the United States: Report of the President’s Research Committee on Social Trends, (New York, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., 1933), which was the published reports of a major Hoover Administration endeavor to study all the social aspects of American society at the time. The sections of the study on Education by Charles H. Judd, Taxation and Public Finance by Clarence Heer, and Public Administration by Leonard D. White, was where I obtained at least some information. I hope this helps you in some way, and good luck on your paper.
@borisperovic5336 Жыл бұрын
dude... actually a interesting video. but get a selfie stick so ur face isn't covering 90% of the screen.
@Ed-hz2um Жыл бұрын
So sorry to see the field and buildings in such disrepair. I used to fly C-119's out of here with the NYANG in the 60's. The Navy flew FJ Fury aircraft from the other side of the field. The old Ambrose lightship moored out in Jamaica Bay had an NDB that served as the final fix for the instrument approach. I currently fly out of Floyd Bennett Memorial field in the Adirondacks.
@willmartin4477 Жыл бұрын
These were awesome
@RadioWhiz Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video I'm going to explore deeper in lake ronkonkoma because im there allot
@linehandibew6205 Жыл бұрын
Great video. Give up the comb over. It’s not working
@that1930sguy Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I have cut my hair since this video!
@robertladue7647 Жыл бұрын
Psychiatry is all but extinct, replaced by Social Workers. All Psychiatrists do is write prescriptions. Psychologists are still prevalent but cannot write prescriptions. The large hospitals closed down due to the warehousing of patients and subsequent lawsuits and state investigations of patient abuse and neglect. New ones are more supervised and much smaller.
@Imeraldgyrl Жыл бұрын
Given all of debt Stanford White incurred, how did the family keep the home?
@that1930sguy Жыл бұрын
That is a great question worth researching for sure.
@Imeraldgyrl Жыл бұрын
I had no idea so many of these locations connected to Nesbit, White & Thaw still existed. And Stanford White paid Evelyn’s mother for her trust. Thank you for the interesting video.
@snø_music0 Жыл бұрын
i lived in a drug rehab in kings park for like 9 months. it was fun living there. i always walked around for hours just looking at all the old buildings