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I need some help.
Any of you remember Montauk well during the 70's and 80's?
There was a motel we stayed at between the West Lake Inn and Montauk Marine Basin. The building has been gone for years. I don't know exactly when it was torn down, but it has been a while.
It was just a little bit south of Montauk Marine Basin on the same side of the road. There was a main motel, then it also had some cabins.
This would be a big help to us if you could remember any of the former places along that stretch.
For questions such as yours, you may want to contact the Montauk Public Library (the library can suggest which local newspaper might have this information and other possible sources of information):
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For questions such as yours, you may want to contact the Montauk Public Library (the library can suggest which local newspaper might have this information and other possible sources of information):
Montauk Public Library
P.O. Box 700
Montauk, NY 11954
Hi. Came across this thread quite by chance. Holiday Motel was a single storey L shaped building (not separate chalets) between a small wooded area and (I think) a small boat yard/landing place - this is 1969, btw - run by a wonderful lady called Rose Ball Mackay: quite a personality, and first time married to a gangland character, she said, before Messrs Ball & Mackay. The motel car park had an ancient green Cadillac parked there to encourage passing visitors to stop by. She also owned property in the centre of Montauk and I believe there is a plaque to her memory in the entrance to the Information Centre in the middle of town. Holiday Motel burnt down many years ago, I believe, and last time I was there (1999) only pink and green painted pebbles marked the road side boundary. Contemporary photos avail if you wish to have them but it doesn't sound like your place.
Oasis Motel, anyone remember this motel? As a little boy, I remember being taken there by my parents for vacations in the early 1970's. I beleive it was on old Montauk Hwy, was it torn down? What's in it's place?
Anyone have any old pictures of this motel?
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Or, as the broken neon sign on the roof read the night my family arrived in March of 1981 to take possession and turn it into The Landing, "asis Motel"- the " O" being broken.
As-is, indeed! It was a complete wreck. We fixed it up and operated as a motel until 1985 when renovations were completed and we opened as a Co-op.
The former owners of the Oasis, the Valciches, probably spelled wrong, also owned Four Oaks store and Pizza Pier.
My family was the Trappeys, Shelby and Ellie.
My parents took us to Montauk point for the first time in 1970. Lots of antique shops and farms. Bluff at the lightouse was much higher than last I saw (2017). In 1970, we ate at Gosman's Dock and the fish was fresh and well prepared. The ocean beaches around Ditch Plains were beautiful, including the swinging singles beach known as Asparagus Beach. It earned this moniker because everyone on the beach stood up mixing. Looking from a distance, they all looked like stalks of asparagus. On July 4, 1970, the town parking lot by the IGA was packed with VW microvans and other assorted hippie regalia as the hippies invaded for the weekend. My 4th grade friend stayed with his family, in the town of Montauk, at a hotel, and mentioned he saw syringes in the stair wells.
Back then and even as late as the late 1980s, Montauk was a sleepy, earthy town, great for fishing, great for surfing, great for boating. They had an airport and a much larger commercial fishing fleet. It was my kind of town. The 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden age for Montauk and the North Fork as well. As an adult, I brought my now adult children out east to share these wonderful places with them. And like me, they too have great memories of this special place.
My parents took us to Montauk point for the first time in 1970. Lots of antique shops and farms. Bluff at the lightouse was much higher than last I saw (2017). In 1970, we ate at Gosman's Dock and the fish was fresh and well prepared. The ocean beaches around Ditch Plains were beautiful, including the swinging singles beach known as Asparagus Beach. It earned this moniker because everyone on the beach stood up mixing. Looking from a distance, they all looked like stalks of asparagus. On July 4, 1970, the town parking lot by the IGA was packed with VW microvans and other assorted hippie regalia as the hippies invaded for the weekend. My 4th grade friend stayed with his family, in the town of Montauk, at a hotel, and mentioned he saw syringes in the stair wells.
Back then and even as late as the late 1980s, Montauk was a sleepy, earthy town, great for fishing, great for surfing, great for boating. They had an airport and a much larger commercial fishing fleet. It was my kind of town. The 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden age for Montauk and the North Fork as well. As an adult, I brought my now adult children out east to share these wonderful places with them. And like me, they too have great memories of this special place.
Montauk is now full of NYC hipsters. It costs $16 for breakfast, and you have to be careful where you park, not like the old days. Lots of $$$$ cars, not the easygoing town we knew back then.
Visit a few weeks after Labor Day, you will enjoy it more.
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Montauk 70s-80s
but it doesn't sound like your place.
