tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post8519388963043998632..comments2024-02-23T03:41:46.040-08:00Comments on West Hempstead Now and Then: A Rare Old Sketch of Halls Pond and the Hall-Wall FeudUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-47787618603364594752022-07-25T19:38:39.088-07:002022-07-25T19:38:39.088-07:00Wow caught them thereWow caught them thereAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-50116775075116895852022-07-25T19:33:49.576-07:002022-07-25T19:33:49.576-07:00No it all to well when I was a kid cut through the...No it all to well when I was a kid cut through there to go to Aurora cars see trailers filled with models good memories Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-58979994448913781842021-06-14T12:20:08.612-07:002021-06-14T12:20:08.612-07:00I grew up in West Hempstead during 1950's-60&#...I grew up in West Hempstead during 1950's-60's. I didn't go to camp because everyday consisted of playing in the woods, going down to the creek that led to Johnson Lane pond and then to Hall's pond. We would fish in Hall's pond, catch water turtles and frogs in the Johnson Lane pond. At one time I had four Box turtles. They enjoyed me hand feeding them both ham and bologna. Before West Hempstead HS expanded there was an old farmer who once shot a shotgun at my friends and I because we were messing around with his pigeons in his coop. My recollection of Whitey Carlson was when he was playing a poker game in a store on Hempstead Turnpike. I was watching and he gave me a dollar to buy cigarettes. When I gave them to him he said to keep the change. The cigarettes were something like a quarter a pack back then. Whitey Carlson built many buildings around the area and Hempstead. He bought steel stairs and everything else when something was going to be torn down. When Dugan's Bakery closed he bought all of the trailer trucks and parked them behind his house. I don't know what he did with them. Many pieces of the 1963 Worlds fair are still being used in various buildings today. As a matter of fact, the west Hempstead shopping Center by Cherry Valley Ave has a large steel arch that is now used for store signage. Originally it was as famous as the Unisphere. It had the Worlds Fair theme below it. It said "Peace Through Understanding". These are words that are aas appropriate today as they were 60 years ago. I heard that Whitey Carlson got into a war with Hempstead Town involving the high taxes. He even built a small monument about his gripes off Peninsula Ave in Hempstead. Unfortunately it is no longer there. He finally left Long Island and from what I remember he bought an old brewery in California and sold the equipment and metal for scrap and made a tidy sum. Lastly, thanks to Gardner's Village's pet shop (in the rear of the store) we now have Italian wall Lizards all around the area for miles because of a shipment box that broke open in the mid 60's. The lizards escaped and thrived. These are only some of my fond memories of old West Hempstead.Georgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-86357105658583650772019-07-27T02:14:42.840-07:002019-07-27T02:14:42.840-07:00I also remember White Carlson. He was rumored to h...I also remember White Carlson. He was rumored to have won the Island Garden in a poker game. Or was it that he lost it in a poker game? LOL memories fade. John Carwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04686307244225525532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-70553968294756508612019-07-27T02:11:04.669-07:002019-07-27T02:11:04.669-07:00I remember Halls Pond well. My father taught math ...I remember Halls Pond well. My father taught math for many years from the 1940s to the late 1960s at both Eagle Avenue School and West Hempstead Jr-Sr HS. We lived in Franklin Square and my father walked to Eagle Avenue from Gabriel Street for two years after someone demolished our 1934 Dodge in a crash on Benris Ave.John Carwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04686307244225525532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-84301808418592041122018-03-12T04:40:28.809-07:002018-03-12T04:40:28.809-07:00And I remember Whitey Carlson..he was the mythical...And I remember Whitey Carlson..he was the mythical figure when we were kids who owned Island Garden, home of the Nets. We used to cut through his driveway to visit friends in Garden City South. It was rumored that he had a large dog and wold chase you away with his rifle if he caught you. Obviously that was all a false rumor. Like there was a witch who lived next to the library. Then one day I saw her grand daughter paying her a visit, so I figured she couldn't be a witch.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-73538376798997269582013-03-09T15:49:39.517-08:002013-03-09T15:49:39.517-08:00I well remember old Charlie Wall and the old log c...I well remember old Charlie Wall and the old log cabin he lived in on Nassau Blvd. across from the pond back in the 1960's he got a burro from my uncle Arnold 'Whitey'Carlson and used to carry it in the back of his vehicle to political meetings. DPLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-44354186558569121322013-01-21T13:08:54.822-08:002013-01-21T13:08:54.822-08:00I attended Eagle Ave. School in the late 1940s and...I attended Eagle Ave. School in the late 1940s and Charles Walls was a classmate. Fred LimbachowinFred Limbachnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-63889181842506271512013-01-19T21:08:31.166-08:002013-01-19T21:08:31.166-08:00I would love to see that picture. I am a resident...I would love to see that picture. I am a resident of WH.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776834374856576998.post-1996172476258631592011-08-14T18:23:35.292-07:002011-08-14T18:23:35.292-07:00When I was a kid, Mr Wall (didn't know his nam...When I was a kid, Mr Wall (didn't know his name was charles) lived in a small log cabin on Nassau Blvd across from Hall's Pond ... he was a cranky old man and had all sorts of rusted junk laid out all over his front lawn in a perpetual tag sale ... in the mid 1970's I remember paying a few dollars for a cement bird bath that I carried home in my little red wagon and gave to my mom as a mothers day gift ... Mr Wall used to tell my friends and me that Hall's Pond was really Wall's Pond but we never believe him lol ... I still have a photo of his old cabin that I took before Mr Logoteta bought the property and had the cabin rebuilt into the the updated log cabin antique store that exists there now ... I will try to find that photo and scan it in one day for you ... thanks for the great article !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com