For more information and for a larger view, please
click on the picture.
(see notes at bottom of pictures.)
Anyone interested in donating old pictures of
the neighborhood please contact Luke. See bottom right "Contact
Us" on the opening page of this web site.
Help us save our past!
|
Click
to see more
pictures of the Good Old Days
I wish to thank Alice
Havlina and Warren Boyen two
wonderful local historians who helped us with information regarding some
of these photographs. John & Mike Leahy and their family have
provided us with not only great pictures and information from 1915 that
would have been lost with out their family history. If anyone has any old photographs of Sunnyside
please contact our office, we would like to save some of our history before
it is lost. Next time you go through your old pictures remember our
office. Don't let anyone throw out the pictures, you so carefully preserved
over the years. We are looking for pictures of the John F. Kennedy's picture at the
Sunnyside Garden Arena, Mayor Jimmy J.Walker
opening the Sunnyside Gardens Park on May 18, 1926, Gleason Centennial Hotel, Miller Hotel, (to mention a few)
and any additional pictures of Sunnyside Pool, Sunnyside Theatre, 43 St.
Theatre, Knockbocker Laundry Building, Jay Guild Tennis court at 45th Street
& Queens Blvd. and anything else you may
have of interest.
Anyone working on a history project should look to the Main Branch of our
Library in Jamaica. This branch had much of the information we were looking
for in old newspapers records. For their address and phone number check our Library site.
to return to
home page
www.sunnysidechamber.org
|