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Dear
Marty,
I found this to be of great interest to me. I am a graduate of Far Rockaway
High School, class of June, 1943. My grandparents started in the hotel
business in Arverne in 1914. My mother was the Queen of Arverne in the
summer of 1921. This was a popularity contest between the daughters of
the hotel owners in the Rockaways at that time. I think the name of the
hotel was the Colonial Inn. There was a fire there in 1922. Isaac Weisman
was the President of the Arverne Hotel Association. This was in the newspapers
and in the "Pathe News" in the movie theaters. I never got to
the library in Manhattan, which supposedly had this film. My grandfather,
Isaac Weisman, ran the Edgemere Club Hotel on Beach 34th St. It was a
200 room hotel. That was 80 years ago. The American Legion had a big celebration
there. My grandparents continued in the business in Long Beach at the
Lincoln Hotel. He owned 12 bungalows at Beach 24th St. in Wavecrest. which
were rented for the summer, only. The people from the Bronx & Brooklyn
loved to catch the breezes from the ocean. Eventually, the bungalows were
bought by the city to build Seagirt Blvd. which went all the way to the
bridge to Lido Beach.
Several years ago, I tried gathering names and locations of my graduating
class for a 60 year reunion in 2003 They were ready to come from as far
away as California. However, this never came to pass except for some of
the gals that lived in this area of Florida. They did not want the guys
to be with us.
How would I find these other stories on the internet?
" FAR ROCKAWAY YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE"
Sincerely,
Helen (Gavender) Bachman
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