On The Waterfront

Man, as I mentioned previously in another post, my cousin Steve use to spend the summers of the 60's in Sag Harbor. After a day at left Sagg or Long Beach, we would head downstreet for the evening. There was not to much to do in those days, so we would hang around A dock on West Water Street. Next to A dock was a small marina owned by a man named Jacobs I believe. The lot next door was the Whaler's Motel. The building housing where 7-11 is today was not there yet. It was an empty lot. About 1966 it would be the A&P, that moved there from Main Street. The Seaside was where the Harbor Professional building is now. The restaurant was operated by the Remkus family. They also has a small fishing station where they rented boats next to the bridge. For fun we use to walk on the rocks under the bridge. This brings us to Long Wharf, where you could catch 25 blow fish on a Saturday morning, fishing off the end. The windmill was not built till 68 for the Whaler's Festival. Agawam Aircraft factory was where Malloy's building and marina is now. There use to be a guard who sat on the porch of the three story building. Next was the Yacht Club, about the same today. The oil tanks were next to the Yacht Club, where a oil tanker would come in once a week or so to fill them. This was for home heating oil, etc. The boatyard is still on Bay Street where it once was. Sometimes we would walk on the breakwater rocks in front of Cora Maria. And finally Tides beach, known today as Haven's Beach. After spending every evening around the waterfront and downstreet, we would get a dime can of soda at the soda machine at Remkus' Fishing Station and a 15 cent ice cream cone at Race's Drug store, now the bike shop. Man for 25 cents you could get all that in those days. Oh, by the way, the waterfront was almost completely abandoned in those days, not the zoo it is nowadays. Remkus Fishing Station