Long time residents of Elmhurst, they are sharing this shot of Newtown H.S. with the 1939 World's Fair visible in the background.
1939 World's Fair
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Elmhurst was first known as Middleburgh, and later as Hastings, when it was established in 1652. Colonists began to refer to Hastings as “new town” in order to distinguish it from Queen’s first and abandoned settlement of Maspeth (established in 1642, abandoned in 1644). In 1683, the name Newtown was officially given to the village and township. In 1896 Cord Meyer jr. successfully rallied to change the town’s name to Elmhurst (meaning “a grove of elms”) in an effort to disassociate his development from the notoriously polluted Newtown Creek.
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Fond memories of 11373? I'll post them too.
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5 comments:
Magnificent Photo! My mom, born in 1920, graduated from Newtown HS in 1937 or 38 (not sure). I have seen many photos of the HS and the Fair, but never the two in the same photo.
does anyone have any idea where Wiemar st. in Elmhurst was?????.My grandfather was born at 169 Wiemar st. in 1913 but it doesnt appear to be on any current maps
???
Chris
According to the Queens
Street Name Changes on the Steve Morse website, Weimar Street is now 54th Avenue
http://www.stevemorse.org/census/changes/QueensChanges1_TtoZ.htm
I don't know how to create hyperlinks here, so you can see the information by going to the main site, stevemorse.org, scroll down to the fourth section, US Census and Soundex. Click on Changed Street Names,then click on Queens NY, then Our Table 1: Old Name to New Name, then Alphabetical Streets T to Z.
I have a map showing Weimar St connecting 52nd and 53rd Avenues just east of Grand, between Haspel and the LIRR tracks.
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