Suffern, New York

A picture video of Suffern, New York.
By,
George Vreeland Hill

[@relayerdave]

thank you for posting this. this was home to me for years...

[@nancybcastner2313]

Thank you George...remember so much about the place....grew up just over the border in Mahwah...heard the place I resided is now demolished....old SHORT LINE BUS TERMINAL & OFFICE..my Dad worked for the company.....lived in a spacious 6 room apt upstairs....most of childhood & pre-teen friends were from Suffern...started K when we lived on E Maltbie Ave...went to Washington Ave school which in your video looks like now the Suffern Municipal Building...the Lafayette Theater was a favorite place & the man who managed it lived near Prairie Ave, Mr. Turner & I was a playmate of his grandson...Jetty Mottola, also friends with Bruce Campbell who's father was Tom & owned Campbell's Fire Extinguishers on Chestnut Ave...bowled several times @ Suffern Lanes & took dance lessons June’s Dance Studio (with Valerie Harper) both also on Chestnut..also friends with Janey Staley, who's dad was president of the Suffern Bank down Lafayette near the corner of Chestnut....the doctor I saw most off my life was Dr John Petrone who had his practice in the front of his home on Park St...my future father-in-law who I finally met in 1960, was once what was called a "soda-jerk" when he was a young man living @15 Ramapo Ave,,,that is also where my late husband was born in 1934...of course we never knew each other until 1960, introduced by his younger sister who I had gone to Ramsey High with before I transferred to the newly built Mahwah High...she had a boyfriend (later her husband) from Suffern...down where the old commercial laundry was....so many wonderful memories...heard from some of my face book friends who still there that the town has really changed, lots more people live there now & is now mostly Mexicans... just received another video....A Drive thru Suffern 1960....that is the Suffern I knew & loved..... Again Thanks

[@tomascakl]

Good work, capturing most of the highlights of Suffern.

[@BarbickEwing]

Nicely done! Brings back great memories... One question... wasn't Suffern founded in 1773 by John Suffern? In 1973, there was a big Suffern Bicentennial Parade & celebration... Thanks for sharing this! I live in Vegas now, so it is great to see 'home'

[@whatyoumakeofit6635]

Yes this is correct. John was a great grandfather of mine. Hope to go there one day