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Picture from a 1942 issue of the Forest Hills - Kew Gardens Post. Click image to enlarge

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Picture from a the story from the July 17, 1942 issue of the Forest Hills - Kew Gardens Post. Click image to enlarge

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A clipping about some P.S. 99 students from an unknown newspaper in 1943. Click image to enlarge and to find out the names of those pictured.

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"General John J. Pershing has been visiting Kew Gardens, being the guest of his nephew, Fred Pershing. General Pershing is well known in Kew Gardens, where he is frequently a visitor, and he is always welcomed and honored there."

"Gen. John J. Pershing at Kew Gardens", The Richmond Hill Record   a local newspaper] (Oct. 12, 1923).
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Updates to this Web Site:
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10/09/08:  Guestbook
10/03/08:  Kew Gardens Community Center
09/16/08:  Special Feature
09/11/08:  Where Are They?
09/01/08:  Kitty Genovese Message Board
08/28/08:  Home Page
08/05/08:  A New Web Site Domain Name
07/21/08:  Latest P.S. 99 Class Picture
06/22/08:  Newspaper Articles
05/27/08:  New Book
05/26/08:  1960 Forest Hills H.S. Yearbook
02/22/08:  Latest web page


Updates to other Kew Gardens Web Sites:
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09/20/08:  Stop this Construction!
08/27/08:  Kew Gardens Civic Ass'n Web Site
10/06/07:  Kew Gardens Movie Web site
Latest Yahoo weather forecast for Kew Gardens, NY


Past Updates to this Web Site:

07/12/08
[Open]  Temporarily added then and now pictures of the Queens Boulevard entrance to Maple Grove Cemetery to the Home Page.

07/01/08
[Open]  Added then and now pictures of a house on Abingdon Road to page 2 of the 2008 Guest Book..

05/27/08
[Open]  Added P.S. 99 Class Picture of Grade 4-3 (1949) courtesy of Bobbie Phillips f.k.a. Barbara Rothman.

03/01/08
Thanks to Evelyn Bennet for the following P.S. 99 Class Photographs:
  •  Grade 3-201 (1985)
  •  Grade 2-202 (1984)
  •  Grade 1-120 (1983)
  •  Nursery (1982)

01/10/08
[Open]  Thanks to Tayyab Siddiqui for a P.S. 99 class photograph of Grade 1 (1990).

01/05/08
[Open]  Added then and now pictures of 103 Mowbray Drive.

01/01/08
[Open]  Added then and now pictures of 83rd Avenue west of Lefferts Boulevard to the 2008 Guestbook.

12/01/07
[Open]  Added 1936 and 2003 pictures of Talbot Street at the corner of 83rd Drive to the December 2007 Guest Book page.

11/20/03
Carol Paplin has put together a slideshow on her snapfish.com web page of the Nov. 15th reunion. To view the photographs, click on Link No. 1 below, and register by giving your name and email address and choosing a password. If Link No. 1 does not work, try Link No. 2. Close out the window to return here.
[LINK NO. 1]    [LINK NO. 2]

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