Midland Beach (below is South Beach
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Under the Boadwalk
Under the Boadwalk
1915 Midland Beach Trolley
Trolley #336, in front of the Lincoln Hotel, Midland Avenue
Date of photo is 1923
Date of photo is 1923
To view a newpaper story about Midland Beach in 1904 click the download button below
This is the New York Daily Tribune from Sunday June 12, 1904
This is the New York Daily Tribune from Sunday June 12, 1904
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Midland Beach
Here are some store names from Midland Avenue . . . . .
- Duffy's Corner Luncheonette, 535 Midland Avenue
- Mary Sweet (Gift) Shop
- Seahorse Tavern - 567 Midland Avenue ( Mary Gift Shop would take over the Seahorse Tavern for the Winter to sell Christmas Toys )
- Cini's Hardware, 461 Midland Avenue
- Cini's Candy Store
- Midland Superette - 460 Midland Avenue
- Bart's Shoe Repair Shop
- Cle's Pharmacy (Midland Pharmacy), 606 Midland Avenue
- Texaco Gas Station
- Mullers Liquors - 578 Midland Avenue
- Miller's Hardware - 582 Midland Avenue
- Devita's Dept. Store - 590 Midland Avenue ( prev. The Hillcrest deli )
- Teddy's 5 & 10 ( Later Pino's Pizza ) - 604 Midland Avenue
- Ciro's TV Repair
- Radio Jacks Taxi
- Blum's Laundry
- Frank's Tailor Shop
- Dove Inn ( Later Bill Schaffer's Bar )
- Blum's Laundromat
- Sam Dandrea's Deli (prev. Tumulty's.)
- Bakery run by Charley Neu
- Shwartz's Shoe Store
- George Mischigans (Luncheonette) [The United Cigar Store], 577 Midland Avenue
- Ralstons
- Texas Diner - 517 Midland Avenue
- Midland Lumber Yard
- Village Carting - 551 Midland Avenue
- Cunningham's Bar /Restaurant - 567 Midland Avenue
- Bayside Inn
- Lions Den
- Jacks Luncheonette
- Schuler's Grocery
- Sal's Barber Shop
- Cruz's Barber Shop
- Jack's Bait & Fishing Tackle Shop - 619 Midland Avenue
- Midland Real Estate - 551 Midland Avenue
Here are some store names from Lincoln Avenue. . . . .
Prizer's Grocery - Barney's Barber Shop - Carlton Cleaners- Dot's Deli - Lonergan's Grocery - Colony Bar -
Washington Hotel
Duffy's Corner Luncheonette
535 Midland Avenue
This is Duffy's Diner before he bought the place, these photos are from 1935
Duffy's Diner Midland Avenue
Duffy's Diner on Midland Avenue
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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.
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.
Below is a 12 minute Video on the South Beach Boardwalk
(Past and Present)
(Past and Present)
Sand Lane Amusement Rides
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Tirelli Carousel
If you remember the South Beach Rides, watch the Video above for a trip back to 1980 on Sand Lane
~ contributed by Charles Michael Russo
He remembers when Vito & The Elegants would harmonize under that boardwalk canopy
Happyland, South Beach
Advertisement from 1904l
Even though Happyland didn't open until 1906, you can tell from the above 1904 ad that the South Beach area was a very busy place before then
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Happyland, South Beach
~ from Variety
1907
The big South Beach, Staten Island, resort opens its second season under improved conditions. Its new manager, Victor D. Leavitt, has reorganized the place and has begun his bid for local and New York patronage with an aggressive policy. Formerly there were no free attractions except a band to give visitors return for their admission fee of ten cents at the gate, the middle court was illy lighted and only casual attempts were made to please. Leavitt has retained the concerts and added a free open-air vaudeville show. This week's bill is made up of Mile. Martha, gymnast; Rae and Benedetto revolving ladder; the Epps-Loretta Troupe and Alfreno, high-wire walker. The promise is made that the biggest park attractions available will be played here during the season. The last six weeks of bad weather have held back the work of placing the park in trim for the season.
There remains to be finished part of the lighting arrangement. Fifteen thousand incandescents are already in place and 5,000 will be added. The name of the park in seven-foot high letters will shine out over the lower bay.
In its general plan "Happyland" remains as before. The Imre Kiralfy spectacle The Canals of Venice, which served as the chief feature last summer, has given place to a big carousel at the south end, flanked by Joseph Ferari's trained animal show. At the opposite side of the triangle stands Claude Hagen's Fire Show. The vaudeville theatre is replaced by a German Village, and a new feature is a pretty picnic ground, entrance to which is free. This department is depended
upon to bring large returns. Sunday the turnstiles registered 20,000, a figure exceeding last summer's high-water mark by a considerable amount.
All the concessions were well patronized. Ferari, the skating rink and the ball room (very much enlarged) were the favorites. Manager Leavitt has made something of a departure from summer park methods in establishing a "pass-out check" system.
Visitors are permitted to leave the grounds on a return check, look over the rest of the South Beach resort and come back free if they choose. Mr. Leavitt, who handles the property for the South Beach Amusement Company, thus outlined his ideas: "We are catering here to no easy clientele. Our patrons are distinctly 'wise' in a show sense. They have seen the best there is of amusements in New York and the nearby summer resorts. They lay out their recreation money willingly enough, but they insist that they have full value. We take the visitor's dime at the gate and propose to give him his money's worth in
free amusements inside. All of which falls under the principle that 'the best is the cheapest,' a business theory that applies with particular force to the operation of this sort of enterprise. The transit facilities are still inadequate, the trip from Herald Square to the park on Sunday
~ from Variety
1907
The big South Beach, Staten Island, resort opens its second season under improved conditions. Its new manager, Victor D. Leavitt, has reorganized the place and has begun his bid for local and New York patronage with an aggressive policy. Formerly there were no free attractions except a band to give visitors return for their admission fee of ten cents at the gate, the middle court was illy lighted and only casual attempts were made to please. Leavitt has retained the concerts and added a free open-air vaudeville show. This week's bill is made up of Mile. Martha, gymnast; Rae and Benedetto revolving ladder; the Epps-Loretta Troupe and Alfreno, high-wire walker. The promise is made that the biggest park attractions available will be played here during the season. The last six weeks of bad weather have held back the work of placing the park in trim for the season.
There remains to be finished part of the lighting arrangement. Fifteen thousand incandescents are already in place and 5,000 will be added. The name of the park in seven-foot high letters will shine out over the lower bay.
In its general plan "Happyland" remains as before. The Imre Kiralfy spectacle The Canals of Venice, which served as the chief feature last summer, has given place to a big carousel at the south end, flanked by Joseph Ferari's trained animal show. At the opposite side of the triangle stands Claude Hagen's Fire Show. The vaudeville theatre is replaced by a German Village, and a new feature is a pretty picnic ground, entrance to which is free. This department is depended
upon to bring large returns. Sunday the turnstiles registered 20,000, a figure exceeding last summer's high-water mark by a considerable amount.
All the concessions were well patronized. Ferari, the skating rink and the ball room (very much enlarged) were the favorites. Manager Leavitt has made something of a departure from summer park methods in establishing a "pass-out check" system.
Visitors are permitted to leave the grounds on a return check, look over the rest of the South Beach resort and come back free if they choose. Mr. Leavitt, who handles the property for the South Beach Amusement Company, thus outlined his ideas: "We are catering here to no easy clientele. Our patrons are distinctly 'wise' in a show sense. They have seen the best there is of amusements in New York and the nearby summer resorts. They lay out their recreation money willingly enough, but they insist that they have full value. We take the visitor's dime at the gate and propose to give him his money's worth in
free amusements inside. All of which falls under the principle that 'the best is the cheapest,' a business theory that applies with particular force to the operation of this sort of enterprise. The transit facilities are still inadequate, the trip from Herald Square to the park on Sunday
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