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Woodcarver Stan Hill Remembered - 1976-77
Longtime Island resident and noted bone carver, Stanley R. Hill Sr. passed away on December 14, 2003. He was 82. Stan became a full-time bone carver in the 1970s, carving as many as a thousand pieces in a year. His work, which won him numerous awards, was featured across the nation and Canada. These photos were taken in 1976 and 1977. Click Death Notice for more on Stan's life and family.
Smith Family - 1963
I believe this photo was taken in December 1963 or 1964. Sherrie Smith in on the left and her sister, Bonnie Smith Trottnow is on the right. The girls were members of my Teddys Islettes Baton and Drum Corps, and the photo was on the Christmas card they sent me that year. The children are those of Marilyn and the late Dan Smith of Staley Road. If you can supply the names of the siblings, email me at teddy@giecom.net
Home Bureau 60th - 1976
Members of the Home Bureau on Grand Island were celebrating the organization's 60th anniversary of its founding in May 1976. Shown are charter members (left) Elsie Stamler, Mabel French, Eva DeGlopper, Bertha Bucher and Lucy French.
Town Employees' Christmas Party - 1965
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This photo was taken in December 1965 during the first town Christmas Party held in the Grandyle Marina on East River at Broadway. In the front are Douglas and Florence Kutzbach. Others I'm able to identify are Athena Xanthos (upper left in white collared dress), Ray Dlugokinski, John DeGlopper, Clare Dixon, Marilyn Couch (back right), and Laura Wade.
Suchocki House
1960s photo. Jodi Hayes Robinson Photo (Dec. 4, 2003)
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The Suchocki House on West River Road just north of Bedell Road is up for sale after being owned by the family for over 50 years. Lottie and John Suchocki first moved to Grand Island in 1940, before son, Jack was born. They lived on Love Road until they purchased this building and approximately 25 acres of land from the Schaeffer family in 1951 just after Mr. Schaeffer died. "Two subsequent additions were built sometime before my parents purchased the place in 1951," their son, Jack explained. "It had originally been constructed back in the 1920s or '30s as a chicken farm and processing business. The building was basically rectangular in shape with three or four garage doors in the front and a chicken coop building extending to the east approximate 300 feet."
"We lived in the upper east side apartment and my maternal grandfather lived in the upper west side apartment until his death in the mid 1950s. The downstairs was still unimproved and primarily garage and storage space."
The Suchockis significantly remodeled the building to the colonial appearance it has today with the front overhang and six columns. "In 1955 my dad rebuilt the place as it exists today with the entire downstairs converted into a very large three-bedroom apartment where we lived while renting the two upper apartments.
Another interesting fact about John and Lottie Suchocki is that in 1949 they bought five acres of land on Grand Island Blvd. (known in those days as the "highway"). They built the first motel on the Island that year, the "Grand Motor Court," and eventually tore it down to build a new two-story motel and restaurant in 1964 on the same site just south of Long Road and across from Kelly's Country Store.
Jack attend college in Miami in 1961 and has lived out of state since that time. "I have always spent a bit of every summer there on the 'ol homestead and will really miss the Island after the place is sold. My parents continued to live there until my mother's death in 1979 and my father's in 2000."
Brownie Troop #1312 - 1977
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Brownie Troop #1312 visited Charlie's Place on Grand Island Blvd., now Tai Pei. The girls, wearing Charlie's complimentary hats, were given the opportunity to watch the making of pizza in Charlie's kitchen in 1977. Charlie's was owned and operated by Charlie Satterlee. I can identify the two girls in the back on the left as Jackie Kaefer and Jodi Yakam. Marcy Torrence is in the front. Email me at teddy@giecom.net if you know the other "Brownies" or Jackie and Jodi's last names.
Lions Club - 1978
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The Grand Island Lions Club's handicap picnic committee members posed for this photo in the summer of 1978. Shown from left in front Jim Kennedy, Joseph Dowd, Gerry Coates and Austin Giambra; Lou Macro is on the right sitting on the table; (back) unknown, Roy Carlisi, Jim Ehde, Fred Prosser and George Casey. Can you identify the others? If so, email me at teddy@giecom.net.
Santa Visits Grand Island Garden Center - 1953
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Santa's Elves are Richard (left) and Carl Vella (right).
A crowd of nearly 2000 attended the Welcome Santa event at the Grand Island Garden Center on "Express Highway" on Sunday, November 29, 1953. The Island's Drum Corps provided music and Glenn Smith of Smitty's restaurant gave out his complete supply of ice cream bars (550). Nancy and Carl Vella of the Garden Center, now the site of Grand Island Auto Tech, created the plans and invited other businessmen to participate, including Dan Linenfelser of Wayside Furniture, Marty Wolverton of Marty's Mobile, Harold Long of the Service Center Appliance and Bob Smith and Ed Dunshie of Grand Island Lumber & Builders Supply. The photos were taken by the late Wendell Stratton. Can you identify the boy on Santa's lap or anyone else? If so, email me at teddy@giecom.net.
Stoddard Grandchildren - 1924
The families of Alonzo Stoddard and his wife, Hattie Blackmore Stoddard go back to the mid 1800s on Grand Island. Alonzo is shown with granddaughter Betty Forsythe Killian on his lap. The others are Teddy Van Son, Corry Van Son Webb, Alida Van Son Aldrich on the lap of Hattie Blackmore Stoddard, and Ada Van Son Brauer. Betty Killian is the only one still living and residing on Grand Island today. Photo courtesy of Nancy Webb.
East River Shoreline - 1976
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The East River shoreline, photographed in July 1976, shows what originally opened as the Grandyle Marina Boat Club Inc. (lower right) in June 1949 (Click for complete photo). That building became the Figurehead and later, Starvin’ Marvin’s and is now Island Marine. The vacant lot across the road at Broadway is now the site of a large boat storage building. The photo was taken after the completion of a major project to eliminate a severe erosion problem. Homes have been built on almost all of the vacant lots shown from Broadway to the South Grand Island Bridge.
Mrs. Heimlich's 2nd Grade - 1952
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This photo of Mrs. Frances Heimlich's second grade was taken in 1952-53 at Sidway School. Mary Muench and Don Loder are shown in the first row; Billy Rupp is fourth from the left in the second row, then an unknown and then Sharon McMahon (Tokash); the blonde in the back is Diane Yakam (Nesbitt) and to her right are Kathy Grycel, unknown, Donna Pollock (Johnson), Don Kutzbach, Renee Thirion (Wulf), Carol Chateauneuf (Stevens), Kathy Cotter (Little), Jarman Benns and Jim Kaiser. John Harper is sitting at the group of vacant desks and next to him is Sharon Dinsmore (Herrald).
Innertube Race - 1976
This group posed near the Bedell House just after an innertube race in the summer of 1976. Racers starting with the "shirtless" Mark Rathmann and going clockwise are Larry Rathmann Jr., Larry Rathmann Sr., Perrin "Lindy" Lindenmuth, the late Bob Jablonski, and Skip Ganger. Thanks to several readers for the names, expecially Michele Rathmann.
Del & Herb's - 1954
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Photographed by the late Wendell Stratton in 1954, this well-known landmark building on Baseline at Love Road dates back over 100 years. Members of the Maccabees, the Fraternal & Benevolent Policy Holders in the Maccabees Life Insurance of America, a farmers aliance of insurance which began on the Island around 1890, are said to have built the Maccabees Hall. Originally located midway between Love and Staley roads, it was around 1920 that the building was moved south near its resting place by the New York Central Railway and later to its present location. The building was opened as a restaurant in May of 1936 by Clement Schuerman, who added porches to the east and south sides of his new place. The restaurant had a total of four owners in its 67-year history including Siegried (Ziggy) Grom, Del and Herb Haller and present owner Ilona Lang. Names of the restaurant over the years changed from Schuerman's to Ziggy's to Del & Herb's Grand Island Grill and most recently Cathy & Jim's Del & Herb's. Now in November 2003, the restaurant has been closed for several months and is for sale at $450,000.
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