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Midland Beach
                                                    
    ~ many photos courtesy of George Duffy

 

Here are some store names from Midland Avenue

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Duffy's Diner

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Mary Sweet (Gift) Shop

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Seahorse Tavern ( Mary would take over the Seahorse Tavern for the Winter
to sell Christmas Toys )

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Cini's Hardware

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Cini's Candy Store

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Midland Superette

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Teddy's 5 & 10 ( Later Pino's Pizza )

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Devita's Dept. Store  ( prev. The Hillcrest deli )

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Bart's Shoe Repair Shop

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Cle's Pharmacy

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Texaco Gas Station

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Miller's Hardware

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Ciro's TV Repair

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Radio Jacks Taxi

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Mullers Liquors

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Frank's Tailor Shop

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Dove Inn ( Later Bill Schaffer's Bar )

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Blum's Laundromat

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Sam Dandrea's Deli (previously Tumulty's)

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Bakery run by Charley Neu

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Shwartz's Shoe Store 

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George Mischigans (Luncheonette) [The United Cigar Store] 

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Ralstons

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Midland Lumber Yard

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Village Carting

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Cunningham's Bar

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Bayside Inn

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Lions Den 

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Jacks Luncheonette

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Schuler's Grocery

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Sal's Barber Shop

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Cruz's Barber Shop

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Jack's Bait Shop

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Lincoln Hotel

 

Here are some store names from Lincoln Avenue . . . . .

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Prizer's Grocery

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Barney's Barber Shop

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Carlton Cleaners

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Dot's Deli

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Lonergan's Grocery

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Colony Bar

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Washington Hotel

 

From one of our website visitors . . .

I was raised in Midland Beach, when the beach was packed and swimming was fine and clear, clean waters. A frozen Milky Way from the concession stand on the boardwalk as your feet burned on the sand. Pete DeVita's Dept. store for school supplies and Christmas shopping with your allowance. Cle's butterfly stitches and Miss Cini's 2 for 1cent penny candy. Hoping on my bike with Mary on the handle bars and Bobby on the back. Roller skating in the park or down the beach. 50 cents zeppoles at Pizza Clown (Pizza Town), and of course Nunzios pizza. Temptee Freeze frozen sundaes for a nickel the next day and Goodies hamburgers.
 

 


From the United Cigar Store before George Mischigan owned it - 1948

( Photo courtesy of his son Charles “Corkey” Lichtenstein )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South Beach

South Beach was the first permanent settlement on Staten Island, originally named "Oude Dorp"
meaning Old
Village. It was a little colony located at the shore end of Ocean Avenue, on the banks of
Old Town Creek. This first settlement on Staten Island was established in August 1661.


                                               donated by Carol Castelli-Garzi
South Beach Amusement Park, Sand Lane
Year - 1969

 



South Beach Amusement Rides - 320 Sand Lane

 

South Beach Amusement Rides - 320 Sand Lane

 



Ann Antonietti 1952 on the Pony Cart

 


                                                                                              Donated by Rich Rossi

If anyone was around in 1905, they will remember this restaurant at
102 Ocean Avenue, it was the predecessor of
The Surf Club
Louis Gardella, Larry Gardella & Victoria Rossi
 

 


South Beach Boardwalk Concessions
(Notice The South Beach Pennant)

 

 


Other, wrong photos of the Tirelli Carousel have been published but this is the one that the
Tirelli Family has identified as being the one they operated
on the South Beach Boardwalk until 1956

(It was built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1907 at a price of $8,000)


South Beach Easter Parade
in front of The Ark Restaurant

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Sand Lane Amusements

 


Nunley's Carousel 1920's
Ed Farrell and William Nunley in front of ride

 

 

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