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Point Lookout in 1930
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A Personal View of 50 Years of Point
Lookout History
Remarks
of Philip
H. Dougherty on the occasion of the 50th Jubilee Dinner
Dance held on July 11, 1987 at the Parish Hall.
Contributed
by Margaret Dougherty, Mr. Dougherty's daughter.
Unpaved Streets, and Proud of It
Point Lookout sits on the eastern tip of what was for many years
little more than a jumbo-sized sandbar off the South Shore. That changed at the turn of the last century after William Reynolds
dredged the channel that bear his name and built the city of Long Beach.
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History Trivia Questions
In what year was the Point Lookout Fire
Department founded?
Answer: 47% of you answered correctly. The Fire
Department was founded in 1931.
In what year was
MyPointLookout.com launched?
Answer: 44% of you
answered correctly. MyPointLookout.com launched Memorial Day
weekend 2001.
The first Spectagala was held in
which year?
Answer:
52% of you answered correctly. According to the Point
Lookout Historical archives the first Spectagala was held in
1968.
Electricity came to the
Point in what year?
Answer:
18% of you answered correctly. According to long time Point
resident, Audrey Brown, electricity came to the Point in 1929.
The
name of the first Point Lookout newspaper was...?
Answer: 20% of you answered correctly. The first Point
Lookout newspaper, published in the 1930s, was called The
Lookout.
The first Children's Day
was held in which year?
Answer: 32% of you answered correctly. The first Children's
Day was held in 1932.
Where was the site of the
original "Life Saving Station"?
Answer: 73% of you answered correctly. The original
"Live Saving Station" was located at the current site
of the Community Church.
Which one of these
celebrities did not live in Point Lookout?
Answer: Although we hear that Joe Namath, NFL Hall of
Fame Quaterback, spent some time in several establishments here
at the Point, he did not have a residence here.
What was the speed limit in town in 1980?
Answer: 30 miles/hour. In 1984 the Civic Assn
successfully lobbied to reduce the speed limit from 30 miles/hour
to 15 miles/hour.
What
was the original name of Point Lookout?
Answer: Nassau-by-the-Sea
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wants to create a robust timeline of Point history. We've
started to collect information and record it in the following
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please HELP us complete it. Contribute information by sending us
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to see historic
photos of Long Beach from the early 1900s onward. A real
highlight are the photos
of Robert Kennedy's visit to LB in 1964. The site is
managed by Chuck Jacobi of
the Long Beach Historical Society.
News from the Past...
The Community Outlook is one of the records of our history.
We'll feature articles and full issues from the past that show how Point
Lookout has changed or how it has remained the same through the
years.
 February 1954 Community
Outlook
Point Lookout Beach
by
Robert L. Doxsee,
1951
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to see story.
Point Lookout Beach by
Robert L. Doxsee, Originally
published in The Community Outlook,
July 1951
The recent publicity given to the erosion conditions at Point Lookout was caused by statements made by our Congressman in Washington to back his contention that the Jones Inlet improvement program was essential to the good and welfare of the south shore of Long Island and that this project approved by the Congress and the Army Engineers, six and ten years ago respectively, is a must and should no longer be delayed. One newspaper picked up the remarks and the other newspapers sent reporters into our area to get the story. Some of you may object to receiving this type of publicity. However, our hope of salvation is to impress upon the minds of the public officials the fact that navigational hazards and erosion of Point Lookout are wrapped up in one
package, and if adequate means of protection are not forthcoming before it is too late, a ten million dollar community is going to suffer grave damage and its real estate so impede navigation that the whole boating industry of the south shore will be hung on a sand-bar.
Last spring the collapse of the sea wall on the south end made necessary the expenditure of the sum of $23,000 to put that section back into shape. Up to date all emergencies have been met and we all hope and expect
that future emergencies will be met. However, we can not hold indefinitely without a Federal project on the east side of the Inlet. Your
general ocean front and bathing beach conditions are not good. A study of this subject is underway. Our officials, both Town and County, have been on the scene and serious study will be made as to the best method of rehabilitating our ocean front.
It may be that our bathing beach conditions this year will be far from ideal, but be assured that conscientious thought and study, both engineering and
financial, is being given to the problem. I am confident that an over-all program will be formulated which will be in the best interests of us all. Please be patient and make the best of what beach we have for our use this Summer.
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to see story.
How, When, and Where?
Originally published in The Community Outlook, June
1954
We also ask why? This is the story we learn as we go to press. For some time a number of Point Lookouters found themselves having dinner on a particular night each week in a local restaurant. At first the usual greetings were exchanged between these people such as, "Good
evening," "How are you tonight?" and so forth. As the weeks passed, these greetings blossomed into conversations until one night two of the
tables were placed together to facilitate the conversations. Each succeeding week more tables were added to the original two until now it has taken on the appearance of a weekly banquet with the Mayor of Point Lookout presiding. Perhaps you know the story or are one of the participants. If not, all you need in order to be in the group is an appetite and a congenial personality.
When you eat, they all eat. When you pay, they all pay. It looks like a good deal. A friendly, neighborly spirit! Democracy at its finest and it just grew, like
Topsy!
Old
Timers Tale by Tom Dier, 1951
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to see story.
Old Timers Tale by Tom Dier
Originally published in The Community Outlook, August 1951
The summer
of 1920 was very hot and one day in August there was a big
crowd visiting the Beach. In the afternoon they started
back and all wanted to be first to get on the ferry
boat. It was low tide. The gangway gave way and
about twenty of them went into the water.
One of the
residents was all dressed up because he was going to the
city. He fell in and in getting out he picked up a
little boy out of the water. I heard the commotion and
started for the dock. The man was coming up the walk with the
little boy in his arms.
He said,
"Tom, take care of the kid, as I have to go back to the
house and change my clothes". He did not go to the
city that day. I took the boy and dried him and took him
home as his folks lived near by.
No one was
hurt and they all got aboard the boat to go to Freeport in
their wet clothes. The little boy is a big man now and is
living here on Glenwood Avenue. The man who took him out of
the water visits here once a year, and he always talks about
the wetting he got.
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to see story.
Useless Robbery
by Tom Dier
Originally published in The Community Outlook, September 1950
It was a quiet night in August,
1920. The boys were having a hot dog party out on the beach
and I was all alone in the building at 11 p.m. Mr. Ben came in
and said, "It is a fine night. How about taking a
walk." I said all right and closed the door but did not
lock it, so the boys could get in if they came before I got
back.We took a walk
along the boardwalk and passed three young ladies on the way.
They had been having a good time somewhere, for they were
feeling fine. We walked around a while, and came back to the post office.
Ben said, "The light is lit. The boys must be home."
We went in but no one was there. Ben said, "Look, there
is a pane of glass out of the window." There was and the
case where the cigarettes were kept was open and several
cartons were gone. The boys came back and I had them fix the
window, and we closed up. In
the morning a lady came in and said, "Did you miss any
cigarettes, as my daughter came home last night with an arm
full of them, and the girls had been drinking, and are all
asleep." I said, "Yes, there are cigarettes missing,
and tell your daughter to come in by the door and not the
window." The cigarettes were all returned. I saw Mr. Ben
and we had a good laugh over the window robbery that netted
nothing for the burglars, nothing but a scolding for drinking
too many Martinis.
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Listen
to Our Song...
A
Song of Friendship
Whenever
winter is leaving
and summer comes on it's way
Here's
where you always will find us,
singing together to say
Point
Lookout, Point Lookout,
you are a dream in the ocean
Where
the cares of the day
lightly vanish away
Warmhearted
friends
make you feel young and gay
Point
Lookout, Point Lookout,
you're a corner of heaven
In
sand and the sun we can all be as
one here in Point
Lookout.
Click
to see words.
Click A Song of Friendship
to hear song.
Words
and music by Minotti Salta.
Vocal by Marty Drake and
The PointLookouters. Written in 1951.
Courtesy
of the
Point Lookout Historical Society
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Point Lookout
Historical Society
a
committee of the Point Lookout Civic Assn.
Rosemary Dowling, Audrey Brown, Peggy Fanning, Frank
Ryan, Don Kelly, Melinda Gillan, Peter Healy, Pete
Zaccaria,
Julie McTernan, Barb Fiorillo
For
more information call
516-432-5163.
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