Memories of Far Rockaway & Edgemere Remembered Part 2 - Doris Day's "Shaking the Blues Away"

Song "Shaking the Blues Away" performed by Doris Day.

There once was a place called Edgemere Long Island. My goal with this blog is to capture as many memories from the people that called Edgemere a part of there lives along with as many photos of the streets and its many views; from Edgemere Ave. and all its stores and stories; to the vendors on the boardwalk and their truly amazing stories; to all the summer boarders who took the town over for those few summer months. And most of all to the families like mine who had one of those great old big houses for all those summer folks and city folks to rent for the summer. Our house was one house from the boardwalk on Beach 38th Street and Sprayview Avenue.

I can't explain my love for this place but it is profound. I am only one person in one family from this once wonderful place. All that I wish to do here is to remember and dream again of this place and its times and its people and streets.

I was trying to find my grandfathers family and I realized that I knew nothing. Since my quest has begun to find where my great grandmother and great grandfather are buried, I have come to understand that my grandfather was a young man when he got to America. In 1910 he was 13. By age 17 he is working for one of the pioneers of the movie industry Jacob Fabin. He is one of the boys that stood there and turned the film. I have since found out that he made films. I have a few. He brought some of his films home when he was still living with his mother and sisters so I have a feeling they still exist somewhere.

I am looking for those films. My grandfather went on to become a man that they wrote about. When I was young I saw a newspaper article about my grandfather comparing him to the great Blasco. As I remember, they were comparing his technique to Blasco. My grandfather was one of the men that put the sound in the Roxy Movie Palace in New York in 1927. He worked his whole life as a film projectionist.

My great grandparents Bella (who was formerly Beile) and Yosef Baumwoll and all their children came to America in 1910. Their oldest son Samuel came the following year. I am looking for the sisters and brother to my grandfather Nathan. They are; Anna, Helen (who was formerly known as Adela), Sadie (formerly Ceilia), Fannie (formerly Fela) and Samuel. In my genealogy search, I haven't been able to find where all these children from the brothers and sisters of my grandfather are.

My grandfather's sister Anna Baumwoll married William Lomberg around 1920. They had three children. Their children were Jeannette, Joseph and Natalie Lamberg. Anna was 24 years old and William was 36. We were told through family stories that they had the concession for and ran the Carousel in Central Park.

Most of what you have just read I myself has just recently discovered. I am now working on trying to find my grandfathers' youngest sister Saide (formerly known as Ceila). What I know of her now is that she was a Jewelry Designer and she died sometime in the early 1950s. I was told she came to my older brothers' Jewish briss in 1948. I have no idea what happened to her or where she is buried. I know she lived in the Bronx and much of her life was spent in Edgemere and that she was the youngest sister to my grandfather and they were quite close. I know there must be photos out there and this too is part of the quest.

So my quest is still the same. Who is my fathers family? Where are they? What happen to them all?

Peace
Bruce Baumwoll
email: edgemere.archives@gmail.com

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[evintagearchives]

Wonderful that you saw some of your spots. Another viewer Barbara Cooper email after seeing one. And send in her fathers photos, that the world is watching now. Watch it The Photographs Of Murray Cooper. My house is in the photos all about Beach 38th Street. Would love to get your families photos to share for all to see . To me The Rockaways really are just that. We each have a spot and a memory . There is so many places.

[evintagearchives]

You can stop it at any moment to catch the photo , glad you enjoyed !

[sylviekell]

Nice, but not all Far Rockaway; there were pictures of Rockaway Park there too. I saw 108th St from the boardwalk (I was born and raised on 112th Street). I used to ride my bike down that short ramp then around the playground as a kid, by where Fitzgerald's used to be. Nice memories, though.

[georgegmlol]

great video/pictures. thanks for putting it together, love it, but wish the pics didn't go so fast. caught myself at 2.18 (camp hillcrest) :D

[doowopkid]

Another of Bruce's fascinating video depicting our home town's past. Thanks!

Tony Castro

[eb1902]

This video is fabulous. Great music of the day and so many incredible images! More, more...