tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807386654523336456.post2411808786619209318..comments2024-03-22T16:14:12.974-04:00Comments on Old Long Island: 'Hedgewood'Zach L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04464823999255502522noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807386654523336456.post-84806958264427994792011-07-17T15:59:59.286-04:002011-07-17T15:59:59.286-04:00DFP - My thinking on the structure from 1966 - per...DFP - My thinking on the structure from 1966 - perhaps a walled garden? Heading towards the shore - you can make out a perfect circle cut out in the woods - then a rectangle opening, probably where the house stood. <br /><br />The Ancient - I'm not a mouthbreather{snort, snort}.HalfPuddingHalfSaucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05322213537553774149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807386654523336456.post-31267226351797259892011-07-15T22:34:50.475-04:002011-07-15T22:34:50.475-04:00DFP --
Some of us had secretaries who did just th...DFP --<br /><br />Some of us had secretaries who did just that -- for a very, very long time. I myself typed my senior thesis on a 1922 Underwood. (Granted, I should have got something more recent, but it was still a plausible device in an age when erasures were not permitted in academic submissions.) <br /><br />HPHS --<br /><br />Great links. (I seem to remember there was a hacker expression back in the Nineties: "You are so elite.")The Ancienthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11662492574558280077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807386654523336456.post-47282784622777537812011-07-15T20:33:42.019-04:002011-07-15T20:33:42.019-04:00Thanks again HPHS.
• I like the house even more af...Thanks again HPHS.<br />• I like the house even more after seeing the close up of the front door area in the book; sad this house lasted less than 40 years.<br />• I remember LGB likes the house that’s there now, the modern one with the arched roof. Personally, I’d take ‘Hedgewood.’<br />• In the 1966 historic aerial view there is still a small structure up by the road on the then-empty lot; I wonder what it was? It’s not there now in any Bing view.<br />• I like the link to the 1919 letter on The Celluloid Company letterhead that’s for sale on eBay (starting bid only $10). Just imagine: some secretary in a dress, stockings, & heels rolled that paper into a manual typewriter along with another sheet of paper & of carbon for every copy that needed to be made (& that was all the copies you had); if there was a typo she had to erase it on every sheet before typing it correctly; no automatic word wrap; no spell check; no undo (one of the best inventions of all time … I wish I had that in every aspect of my life); no edit function. How did they get so much done?<br /><br />I like old houses … I love modern technologyDoug Floor Plannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807386654523336456.post-87307118717693370352011-07-15T16:54:17.206-04:002011-07-15T16:54:17.206-04:00Demolsihed in the 1940's.
http://books.googl...Demolsihed in the 1940's. <br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=jIXc9ES8qcAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=Lord%20and%20Hewlett&f=false<br /><br /><br />It would have stood <a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qs11498vpz08&lvl=18.984155751970767&dir=342.6885455631623&sty=b&where1=Tanglewood%20Crossing%2C%20Lawrence%2C%20NY%2011559&form=LMLTCC" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Curved silver-roofed structure. <br /><br />http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=4E-06&lat=40.60687900738&lon=-73.720617033094&year=1966<br /><br /><br />http://cgi.ebay.com/1919-Letterhead-The-Celluloid-Company-New-York-NY-/370496862536HalfPuddingHalfSaucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05322213537553774149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6807386654523336456.post-57463632706399623492011-07-15T09:05:05.501-04:002011-07-15T09:05:05.501-04:00I looked around the Tanglewood Crossing area of La...I looked around the Tanglewood Crossing area of Lawrence, NY on Bing & could not find anything that looked like 'Hedgewood' to me. From what the photo shows it looks like a nice, stately, country house. I like the foliage planted between the porch at the end of the house & the driveway, giving one some privacy from whomever approaches.Doug Floor Plannoreply@blogger.com