South Beach, hookah lounge Staten Island, 1973, photographed by Arthur Tress As a resort and amuseme

South Beach, hookah lounge Staten Island, 1973, photographed by Arthur Tress As a resort and amusement mecca, the time of Staten Island's South Beach has come and gone.  The waterfront community south of the Verrazano-Narrows hookah lounge Bridge still has a classic old boardwalk, built in 1935 as New Deal project and appropriately called the Franklin Delano Roosevelt hookah lounge Boardwalk.  And there are still recreational facilities for baseball and hockey found just off its old boards. But priorities have changed here. Similar to the fate of Rockaway Beach, most of the amusements were gone by the 1970s,  Several sections of neighborhoods along the shore were gravely damaged in 2012 by Hurricane Sandy. Its doubtful this area will ever return to its glory days of the early 20th century when Happyland Amusement Park brought a bit of Coney Island magic to the shore.  Further inland, real estate developers were changing the landscape with planned communities that eventually appealed to New Yorkers of Italian, Irish and Hispanic descent. Here's some views of South Beach and adjacent Midland Beach from early in the century and then some drastically different views from the 1970s. Photos are courtesy the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library:
From a 1908 advertisement: "A delightful ferry sail down the bay and trolley ride through Staten Island's verdant hills will bring you to HAPPYLAND, on South Beach, looking out toward hookah lounge the ocean.  The new combination ticket feature provides, for a quarter, admission to the park, vaudeville, dancing pavilions, Bill's Ladder, Paris by Night, Foolish House, Georgia Minstrels, Dib Dab Slide, Electric Slide, Hippodrome, Circle Swing, Fat Saidy and the Human Roulette Wheel."
We summered on South Beach when I was a kid. My father owned Burn's Beach Club in the shadow of the boardwalk. We loved it,tho the passing ocean liners did a job on the ocean, dumping their garbage into it. No fun swimming amidst orange peels and whatever else was being tossed. Polluted water aside, I loved those carefree summers. Lorraine Diehl Reply Delete hookah lounge
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