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Flyers
Development continued and ownership was expanded to a group of investors who sold lots for about $690 each starting in 1922.
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Music
Verse
Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run, on the run, on the run,
Hear them calling you and me,
Ev'ry son of liberty.
Hurry right away, no delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad,
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy's in line.
Chorus
Over there over there
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming ev'rywhere
So prepare say a pray'r
Send the word, send the word to beware
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back till it's over over there!
Verse
Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun,
Johnnie show the Hun you're a son of a gun,
Hoist the flag and let her fly,
Yankee Doodle do or die.
Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit,
Yankees to the ranks from the towns and the tanks,
Make your mother proud of you
And the old Red White and Blue.
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Postcards
A casino, beach, and fishing
pier were added in 1915 and
the name of the neighborhood
was changed to Howard
Beach on April 6, 1916
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The Hotel Howard was a magnificent achievement for William
Howard as well as a resounding success. Construction of the two
thousand foot pier supporting the hotel, bungalows, support
buildings and recreation centers, was no small feat, Howard
brought in all the construction materials despite the lack of
roads, motor vehicles and other modem methods of transport.
When the hotel and pier were built at the turn of the century
Cross Bay Boulevard did not exist; the land was a marsh. There
was no Sunrise Highway; the land was just north of the marsh.
The automobile had been invented but would not be seen in
South Queens for a few more years; most roads were dirt trails
and those going into the marshes flooded at high tide.
Yet William Howard managed to bring in all the materials needed
to build his hotel and pier, accompanying buildings and even his
power plant, which stood on the site Of today's Frank M. Charles
Memorial Park. Hotel Howard had electricity years before the
railroad, steam engines chugged over the trestle until 1905, the
passengers marveling at the brightly lit Hotel Howard sitting atop
its magnificent pier.
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Memoirs
Spiegelman relates the effect of those events on the
survivors' later years and upon the lives of the
following generation. Each scene opens at the elder
Spiegelman's home in Rego Park, N.Y. Art, who was
born after the war, is visiting his father, Vladek, to
record his experiences in Nazi-occupied Poland. The
Nazis, portrayed as cats, gradually introduce
increasingly repressive measures, until the Jews,
drawn as mice, are systematically hunted and herded
toward the Final Solution. Vladek saves himself and
his wife by a combination of luck and wits, all the time
enduring the torment of hunted outcast. The other
theme of this book is Art's troubled adjustment to life
as he, too, bears the burden of his parents'
experiences.
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Fashions
Mary Lincoln wore this silk taffeta two-piece dress
in 1861, with an evening bodice as the top piece.
The pattern of black stripes and purple flowers is
woven into the silk. Later in the 19th century, the
original evening bodice was replaced with this
daytime bodice made of fabric taken from the
skirt.