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Photo of Woodhaven Boulevard in Woodhaven, Queens, NY, 2006

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Taken from Jamaica Avenue J/Z/M train station.  

Photo credit: DoomDan515 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

 

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Amateur footage of Woodhaven, Queens, 1965 — 1967

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I found these videos on Youtube.  They were taken between 1965 and 1967 in the neighborhood of Woodhaven in Queens, NY — where my family lived when I was a baby.  I wasn’t around in the 1960’s, but this is how the community looked around the time my siblings were born.

 

 

 

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Woodhaven, Queens, after the Blizzard of 2016 (Photos)

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The Wonder Bread – Hostess Bakery in Jamaica, Queens (Photos)

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My family tells me that all of us kids got sweets whenever we went there in the 1970’s to buy bread.  Being about four years old at the time, I can’t really remember that.

I definitely do remember loving Twinkies when I was a baby.  Strangely, I also remember seeing the Wonder Bread logo on the backs of trucks when we were driving.

That factory had a long run.  It closed only in 2011, believe it or not, after being in business for 130 years.  130 years … wow.

These photos were taken by Jim Henderson (via Wikimedia Commons).

 

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