A Picture History of Kew Gardens, NY

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Pictures dated March 17, 1948 Click on images to enlarge.

Jay Rogers lived in Kew Gardens from 1939 to 1963 and attended P.S. 99 from 1940 to 1949. His mother, Mildred Rogers, operated the Kew Gardens Dancing School from 1950 to 1980. Still a Boy Scout and stamp collector, Jay is retired and lives with his wife in Hendersonville, NC.

Crossings 1948

by JAY ROGERS

I was in the last January graduating class in 1949. I was a photographer and did my own darkroom work when I was a kid until about 1959. The first picture is Patrolman Albert Demchak of the 102nd Precinct, the cop on PS99 school crossing duty at Lefferts Boulevard and Kew Gardens Road, March 17, 1948. The Maple Grove Cemetery administration building is in the background. The plain dark green coupe was the latest thing in police cruisers. Students neatly wrote their names on the smooth rocks in the wall.

The second picture shows the "Crossing Guards", boys in 7B and 8A. From left to right: Jerry Portnoy, Douglas Champion, Oral Suer, Billy Mohr, Herbert Dahl, Michael Spett, William D'arren, Michael Nussbaum, Joseph La Rocca, Sam Nuelinger, Werner Barth, Marty Reiss, David Doman, Michael Stevens, Noel Hunold."

Photographs courtesy of Jay Rogers.

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