Grading Old Walt Whitman Road

Black and white photograph showing a rig with four horses pulling four men aboard an open cart fitted with a scraping blade located just front of the rear axle. Perhaps the extra load allowed a cleaner cut.

Glaab’s produce stand

Black and white photograph showing five of the eleven Glaab children in front of their summer vegetable stand, located just north of the family hardware store on Route 110.

Glaab’s hardware store

Black and white photograph showing Glaab’s, circa 1930 on Route 110. In addition to hardware, auto accessories, seeds, and its own greenhouse, it also had a gas pump, as many stores did at the time.

Gas pump at May’s store

Black and white photograph showing a young woman in her dress gassing up the tractor at a very simple Texaco gas pump. May’s store was one of many that sold gas along with groceries or candy.

Closed electric trolley car

Black and white photograph showing a trolley car, complete with window shades, cow catcher, and electric wires overhead. After twenty years in service, legal agreements which kept fares low, and the growing popularity of private automobiles, put trolleys out of business.

Bus on a snowy day

Black and white photograph showing an early bus making its way along a very snowy road. But buses were quieter and less frightening for the cows in the nearby fields, and by 1919 had replaced the trolley along Route 110.

Boys’ school playhouse and pool

Black and white photograph of the Nazareth Boys’ School gymnasium and swimming pool built in the 1930’s by Frank Schneider Sr. The “playhouse” was used during WW II by the defense department to train airplane mechanics; the pool was maintained by Farmingdale Village until 2004.

Bookman’s Hotel

Black and white photograph showing Bookman’s Hotel, circa 1940, and formerly named the Melville Inn. For many years it was owned and operatedby Joe Bookman and his family. In 1954 it was reconfigured to accommodate the wider Route 110, and in the 1960’s it was razed completely.

Blacksmith Shop and field

Black and white photograph showing Bill Thomas’ Blacksmith shop and Miss Graeser, Charlie Kull and a third, unidentified girl sitting in a field across the street near the corner of Old Country and Walt Whitman Roads.

Bill Thomas’ blacksmith shop

Black and white photograph showing Bill Thomas’ blacksmith shop which stood until the mid-1950’s at the corner of what is now Walt Whitman and Old Country Roads.