Strathmere Vintage images - page 1
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The following photos were given to us by The Heffelfingers of Webster. The photos were given to them by Bettie Doyle Diamond. As a child she vacationed in Strathmere with her family, and stayed on Webster, in the house that would later be owned by the Heffelfingers. The 3 photos were taken after the hurricane that devastated Strathmere in 1944. Two ladies gingerly walk by what remains of the 'C.B. Winters House' which stood beachfront on Webster. The 2nd photo is a back view of the same house, someone is climbing out of the window. The 3rd photo shows 2 more houses. The tall one was once known as the 'Erbe Cottage' which stood beachfront on Vincent. The house is now a story shorter and on Webster.
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This group of photos were sent to us by a longtime Strathmere resident. The first photo is a view looking north on Neptune, from the window of a house that still stands there today. This photo was taken in 1957, and shows the old Coast Guard Tower on the point, and the houses that use to be beachfront, before the storm of 1962. The 2nd photo was taken right after the storm in '62. It shows the damage done to one of those beachfront homes, with the tower still in the background. This home was rebuilt and moved away from the beach, to Commonwealth. More 1962 Storm Photos
The 3rd photo is also from 1967, and it shows some work being done on the beach at Neptune & Williams





Below is an ad for a property auction in Strathmere in the early to mid 1960's.
25 empty lots were being auctioned off on the point.












Our first vintage lifeguard photo!
This one was sent to us by Lucille DeAngelis. The photo is from 1964 and shows Lucille with some Vincent street lifeguards. The guy on the left is Jerry Kidd, who stayed on Tecumseh, and the other fellow is unknown.

See the name on the boat is 'Strathmere Beach Patrol'





 



A whale on the beach in 1950's. The photos are believed to have been taken on Whale Beach. Photos from Loretta Panunto.

The next 4 photos are from Loretta Panunto. They show Commonwealth around 1949. In the first 2 photos you are looking south, and on the left you can see the building that would eventually become the Strathmere Motel. At the time these photos were taken, the building would have housed the McCullough family along with their realty office and savings & loan office. The second 2 photos show a view looking north, and you can see Thompkin's Store.









This photo was sent to us by Lydia Cox. It shows the two houses that are at the end of Seaview, from the 1940s. In the late 1930s, Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Hodge bought the white house. Then Lydia Hodge's sister Valeria F. Penrose had the brown house next door built. Their families continued to vacation there until 1950 or there abouts. The house on the right is now a turquoise color.






The following 3 photos were sent to the website by Marlene Paar Murray and her son Steven Murray. The house at 100 Sherman was built by Marlene's parents Frank & Edith Paar in the 1940s. The photo with baby Scott Murray in the playpen was taken about 1959.
The 2nd photo is of Marlene Murray at age 13, standing in front of Dr. Rosenbach's birdbath. The Coast Guard building is in the background.
The 3rd photo is of Scott & Steven's daughters taken from the same angle, almost 60 years later. The girls are clockwise from upper left: Michaela, Makenna, Larkin and Devin








A postcard of our bridge, probably from the late 1960's. You can see way in the distant that there use to be houses on the other side of the bridge. Those were vacated and destroyed in the late 60's.










These 10 photos were given to the site by John Motter.
First is a view of the beach at Webster in 1959. Then next are two 1965 views. The middle photo is of the 'Indian Rocks' or what's left of them. They were once on the outside wall of a concrete house that stood on the beach at Sherman. The house collapsed in the hurricane of 1944, and for many years the wall with the Arts and Craft Indian mosaic was a favorite place for kids to play on. Anything that might still remain of them are under sand on the beach. The 2nd photo is a view of the beach in 1965.




Next is a view of Webster, coming from the beach, looking towards the bay. The 2nd photo is a house that has now been remodeled.




Two 1972 beach views. First is the beach at Webster, then the beach at Sherman




This photo of the empty trailer park was taken in February 1973



These 2 photos are of the upstairs lounge at the Bayview Motel, taken sometime in the early 1970's.




This 1998 photo shows a view of Whale Beach after a storm







Remember this house? Loretta Panunto managed to snap a picture of it just before it was totally demolished.








The following 7 photos were sent to the website by Wayne Parfitt. He and his family use to stay at the Moore house on Vincent. The photo on the left is of the house from 1955. Below is a photo of Wayne on the Vincent beach with Grandmother Moore and mother Edna Parfitt

Two family portraits from 1955, taken in the back and side yards of the Moore house.

Uncle Charlie use to dock his boat 'Dopey' at Twisties. With the day's catch in the backyard.

On the beach at Vincent.






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