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The Rockaway I Knew, By Matt Bashie

Letters From Our Readers
Articles by Stevie S. Stevens (listed in chronological order with most recent on top)
  The Beach 20th Street Revitalization Program of 1977
  The Seagirt Avenue Shopping District
  Memories of Nebenzahl's
  A Quest for Accuracy - Random Thoughts on the history of Far Rockaway High School
  FRHS - A Place of Educational Excellence
  To Edgemere With Love
  1937 Seaside Fire
  Publicizing the Rockaways for the 1939 World's Fair
  Lets Hear It For the Girl - Nancy Lieberman
  The Newly Constructed FRHS, Prior to its Dedication in May, 1929
  The Colonial Hall Hotel
  Joyce Brothers Meets the Beatles
  The Edgemere Railroad Station
  The Arcade Building
  The Mystery of the Vanishing Landmark
  Random Thoughts on Edgemere
  Wavecrest Gardens, A City Within A City
  The Academy Avenue School
  Mott Avenue Then and Now
  Some Historical Buildings on Mott Avenue
  Wides Motors
  This is Cinerama
  Arverne at the Turn of the Century
  Patrolling the Rockaway Peninsula
  Legends of the Rockaways - Tent Colonies
  Our Wonderful Edgemere Bungalow
  The Far Rockaway Train Station - Then and Now
  Berger's Restaurant - A Far Rockaway Tradition
  A Landmark Intersection - Central and Mott Avenues
  Central Avenue - Then and Now
  Edgemere Club Hotel - The Picture That Does Not Exist
  What Happened to the Rockaways
  Rockaway After the Summer Rush
  Bull at Rockaway Beach
  Never the Train Shall Meet - LIRR and the NYC Subway
  A Letter to Elsie
  The Grand Hotels of the Old Rockaways
  Changing of the Guard, Principal David Gordon Retires
  Skee-Ball Amusements
  Timetable to an Adventure in Rockaway Beach
  Directing Traffic, Strand Theater
  R-DAY - Rockaway Here We Come!
  Dateline: June 28, 1956 - NYC Subway Service Now Extends into Rockaway Beach
  Rockaway Beach Advertising Card
  Advertising Card Samples
  Sanford Ellsworth, first principal of FRHS, and the NRA Plaque
Articles by Ira Ellenthal (listed in chronological order with most recent on top)
  My Rockaway Grade School Days Topped Them All, Hands Down
  His Insult Must Have Bothered Me Because the Memory of it Lingered
  Maybe Rockaway Wasn't a 'Teacart Sort of Place'
  The Death of a Belle Harbor Guy Who Was on His Way to Stardom
  The One-sided Love Affair of a Rockaway Boy & an Ozone Park Girl
  Crime and Punishment: A 1951 FRHS Travesty
  The Ten Billion Dollar Difference
  His Kids Got Rockaway Air, Dad Got a Longer Commute
  Is There Such a Thing As Rockaway Innocence?
  50 Years Later, I Still Savor Rockaway’s Hometown Flavor
  Ira Ellenthal's Bio

Legendary FRHS Teacher, Earl Jagust

Lance Deplante, Notable FRHS Alumnus

Don Jose From Far Rockaway (Music)

Hurricane Donna Hits the Rockaways (Video)

FRHS 2011 Final Graduation Ceremony (Video)

An Interview with Denise J. Hallett, Principal of FRHS, 2004 - 2011

Far Rockaway High School, 2011 - The Final Commencement

Remember Monica D. Ryan by Marty Nislick

The Sacrifice of a Rockaway Soldier: PFC Joseph N. Angelone by Robert Angelone Ph.D.

Doris Day, A Far Rockaway Girl by Marty Nislick

An Old Building Full of Memories by Bernie Grossman

Bar Mitzvah or Stickball by Ed Vlahov

My Far Rockaway Diary Volume III

Roche's Beach Club by Ken Bender

Three Notable FRHS Alumni by Marty Nislick

The Reckouwacky Girls by Ann Tutunjian (reprinted from the Wave)

The Recording Booth by Allan Bline

Trembling Before Khrushchev by Stanley Raffes

Breathless in Rockaway by Stanley Raffes

Searching For the Rockaway Museum by Marty Nislick

The Rockaway Fire of 1892, article courtesy of Ed Gloeggler

Three Rockaway Songs by Ed Berlin

Collecting Trading Cards by Matt Bashie

Remembering P.S. 215

The Budick - Bashie Dialogues by Matt Bashie

Crime in our Schools - Exclusive Interview with FRHS Teacher, April 10, 2009

Crime in our Schools - Daily News Article, June 7, 1985

Television - From the June 1948 Dolphin Yearbook