The Town...Now

--Photos by Allan Johnson

Above: Old library, now the Town Historian's office, soon to be the Huntington Visitor's center. We've arrived!

Left:   Old Town Hall, now a real estate office
Right:  Site of Huntington Fire Department on               Main Street moving toward NY Ave,               now a furniture store.

Below,Looking at NY Ave Corner:

.Guckenberger's, behind the red parked car. Now "Munday's", same counter and booths.

Across NY Avenue, Hartman's, now "The Gap".

Above, at Clinton and Main:Old Long Islander Building, now a pizzeria in the front and a bar in the back.

And across the street:The current Long Islander site, formerly Hunt's book store.
Shame,isn't it?

Past St. John's, on the next corner:

Old New York

Telephone building,

now the town library with extensions to the

rear and side.

Meanwhile, back on Wall St(right):Site of the Shore Theater, torn down in the nineties to build a multiplex.

..and further east,at Spring and Main,below:

Site of Mike Horan's Texaco Station. "A quarter's worth please, Mike."
Speaking of Mike,remember he always rode around in that surplus jeep with the top down, wearing a green t-shirt and fatigue pants--and in winter, combat boots.

Of course, if you go far enough east from Mike's:  Downtown Centerport. Site of "Tony's by the Sea", up in flames and smoke several years ago, now a park.
...but in Huntington Harbor..

from West Shore Rd:

Huntington Harbor - Site of Ferguson's Castle across the harbor (middle)

and the rebuilt (after a fire) Huntington Yacht Club (left).

 

...and below,by a photographer whose education obviously never attained a knowledge of the Castle Boys:

A remaining portion of Ferguson's castle, site of many evening meetings of

"The Future Members of the Mensa Society" youth group". Several homes now occupy the site.
...and back on New York Ave...

Site of the Huntington Theater, now an IMAC theater showing nothing this photographer,as flexible as ever, would be caught dead at!

...and across the street:

Site of the June 15 Mini-Reunion.

and moving up NY Ave:The Conklin house. Site of many field trips(below left),and:.

Former site of the Bella Hess estate at the top of the New York Avenue hill.Now a shopping center and site of Huntington High School.

...and finally:

Huntington railroad station (center background) taken from across NY Avenue over the former sites of the Station Post Office and the Lincoln Mercury dealer.