This Is Great Neck
Thllll IlIll:::lnllllll nf Wnrnlllln \/ntore.- nf r.:r.,.".t t.J.,....l, ORIGINAL EDITION 1st Printing 1956 - Mrs. Regina Reibstein, Editor 2nd Printing 1959 - Mrs. Murray Bloom, Editor 3rd Printing 1967 - Claire Speciner, Editor Revised Edition 151 Printing 1975 . Committee-Marlene Taft. Jean Elbaum, Rita Siegel, Helen Scharfman, Ann Chalfin 2nd Printing 1983 - Committee-Ruth M. Kogel, Sybil Cohen, Barbara Braunstein We would like to thank the following people who made this publica tion possible in 1975: Business Manager: Elinor Peretsman Lee Karlin, Editor of The Great Neck Record, for making available all old issues of the newspapers, office space, time and interest. Joe Covino, Director of the Great Neck Library. for the use of its outstanding facilities and his encouragement. Mrs. Leila Mattson, References. Great Neck Library The Chamber of Commerce, Arnold Prensky, President The Real Estate Board. Robert Freedman, President Mort Weisinger, Editor of Great Neck Circle Magazine. for the many photographs in the text. United Federal Savings and loan Association, 41 Middle Neck Road,Great Neck. Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 Indian Days 7 Colonial Times The Dutch, The English, The Peninsula Becomes a Community, The Revolution 19 The Prosperous Nineteenth Century Farming, Trade, The Grand Estates, Education, The Library, Transportation 49 Great Neck in the Twentieth Century The Turn of the Century, Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway, The Villages, The Roaring Twenties, The Depression 79 Great Neck Goes to War World War II (At Home and
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