Queens, NY - 1915: Queens, NY - 1915 It's like a different world. Be sure to notice the second picture of the boy and girl dancing.

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Queens, NY - 1915

Mar 13, 2017 12:51:44 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Queens, NY - 1915 It's like a different world. Be sure to notice the second picture of the boy and girl dancing.

http://mashable.com/2017/03/12/at-broad-channel/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds

Mar 13, 2017 13:19:19 #

mwoods222 Loc: Newburg N.Y,

I knew it was Broad Channel from the first photo before it was stated

Mar 13, 2017 13:25:52 #

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

Fascinating to see life from a hundred years ago. I know a gal who still cooks on a wood fired black stove, and wouldn't change it for the fanciest commercial stove
available. They never worry when they lose power as on the other side of the chimney that serves the kitchen stove, is a Vermont Castings Defiant that heats the house and there is
an enclosed dog-trot outside the kitchen door where she can put her cold stuff so it doesn't go bad. Many a tasty meal I've eaten cooked on that stove.

Mar 13, 2017 13:28:18 #

WayneT Loc: Paris, TN

Interesting photos and allowed me to see how my grandparents lived back in New York in those days.

Mar 13, 2017 15:38:07 #

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

2Dragons wrote:

Fascinating to see life from a hundred years ago. ... (show quote)

My wife's mother still used her coal burning kitchen stove into the early 70's when she passed. Baked her own bread into the 60s. When they sold the house and moved into town (coal mining town in Central Pennsylvania) the detached garage they didn't need got remodeled into a kitchen, dining room/lounge where her coal stove was and Grandpa could smoke his pipe. If the weather was bad or she didn't feel up to going out and firing up the coal burner she would make breakfast, coffee, tea etc. on the electric in the new place.

Being a retired history teacher these images are of great interest to me. Scenes like this were still around in the rural areas and small towns in the 50s.

Mar 13, 2017 16:46:35 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

robertjerl wrote:

My wife's mother still used her coal burning kitch... (show quote)

Ah, the past! Let it forever remain just a memory!

Mar 13, 2017 17:03:23 #

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

robertjerl wrote:

My wife's mother still used her coal burning kitch... (show quote)

Major correction, this will teach me to try and do three things at once. Writing entry, supervising print job for my wife and trying to answer a question from her.

Wasn't my wife's mother, it was my mother's mother.

Mar 14, 2017 15:26:58 #

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

Broad Channel was a very insular community on a small spit of land in Jamaica Bay and
not representative of what was going on in the rest of Queens.

Mar 14, 2017 16:55:57 #

nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL

Great photographs of an era gone by! Amazing how sharp they are.

Mar 15, 2017 08:13:06 #

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

nimbushopper wrote:

Great photographs of an era gone by! Amazing how sharp they are.

Large negatives.

Mar 15, 2017 18:57:57 #

billgrolz

My dad worked or owned property at the Raunt. I think it was near broad channel.

Mar 16, 2017 09:55:12 #

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

jerryc41 wrote:

Thank you for the link.

Eastman Kodak was working their magic by then, but these look like posed professional pictures to me; it would be many years before most of us could take pictures of this quality.

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