Photos of Long Island in the 1960s

David Sears, 15, Rick Iber, 14, and Ken Olson, 14, all from Centerport, come pedaling down a hill riding unicycles on Paul Revere Lane in Centerport on March 10, 1968.

Looking west from Main Street on Fulton Avenue in Hempstead Village on July 4, 1966.

A long line of privately owned boats stand side-by-side at the dock on the bay side of Tobay Beach on July 4, 1969.

Patrolman Henry "Hank" Penna of Massapequa, in charge of Marine 6 for the Nassau County Police Department's Marine Bureau, gives words of caution to the occupants of two boats on Zach's Bay at Jones Beach on July 4, 1969.

Senatorial candidate Robert F. Kennedy and Nassau County Democratic leader Jack English get out of a helicopter for a visit to Ocean Beach on Fire Island on Sept. 6, 1964.

Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson greets Sen. Robert Kennedy as Kennedy steps from a helicopter at Roosevelt Field in Garden City on Jan. 11, 1968.

A crowd watches as couples dance under the stars at Jones Beach with the Jones Beach tower lit up in the background on July 16, 1969.

Thousands flocked to Jones Beach to claim their space on the sand on May 24, 1964.

A group of women play mah-jongg at a home in Glen Head on June 9, 1965.

During the Nov. 9, 1965 blackout, Ronald Pleta, juror examiner at the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola, gets forms ready for prospective jurors under lantern lights that were found in the building's basement.

Scene of the communication room at the Suffolk County Police department in Hauppauge during the blackout on Nov. 9, 1965.

View of the Lever building at Roosevelt Field in Garden City on Mar. 30, 1967. The building will eventually house the Eastern Regional Weather Bureau.

Three-hundred and eight new cadet midshipmen of the class of 1972 at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point are sworn in to the Naval Reserve by Rear Adm. Gordon S. McLintock, head of the academy on Aug. 31, 1968.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talks to a packed school auditorium at Southside High in Rockville Centre on Mar. 26, 1968.

On May 14, 1968, Dr. William J. Ronan, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, swaps an engineer's cap for a jockey's cap handed to him by Edward T. Dickinson, president of the New York Racing Association at Belmont Park in Elmont. The two were aboard the first Long Island Rail Road train to visit the site since the old track was shut for renovation in 1962.

James C. Brady, chairman of the New York Racing Association, cuts the ribbon to open the new Belmont Park in Elmont on May 20, 1968. The old Belmont was closed in 1962 and underwent a $30 million renovation.

Stephen J. Gaughran of Seaford, the director of Nassau County's Bureau of Management Information, checks one of the IBM computers used at his office on Jan. 9, 1969.

Men at work on the A6A at the Grumman Aircraft plant in Calverton on Mar. 16, 1967. The aircraft was just about to roll out to the flight line for its first flight before the Navy took over.

Engineers at Grumman's Plant 25 in Bathpage who were instrumental in developing the lunar module, watch a live television broadcast of their creation in action on March 5, 1969.

Phil Nelson of Roosevelt trains as a draftsman in the engineering department of Grumman Aircraft in Bethpage on Nov. 27, 1968.

Couples dance under the stars on the dance floor with the Jones Beach State Park water tower in the background on July 16, 1969.

Members of the Freeport Peace Vigil on Jan. 21, 1968, stand as they did for over 40 Sundays on the steps of the post office in Freeport holding signs protesting the war in Vietnam.

Students picket the Manhasset draft board on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset on Dec. 12, 1969.

A Vietnam War moratorium demonstration is held on the lawn of Lawrence High School on Nov. 13, 1969

High school student demonstrate in favor of the draft and support of the soldiers in Vietnam as men board a bus in Hempstead Village to go to an Army induction center on April 1, 1968.

Anti-war protesters light candles and stand in silence in front of Huntington Town Hall on Nov. 14, 1969.

On Nov. 5, 1962, author John Steinbeck admires the view from the sun porch of his Sag Harbor home which overlooks the Sag Harbor waterfront.

John Steinbeck during an interview at his home in Sag Harbor on Nov. 5, 1962.

Author John Steinbeck during an interview at his home in Sag Harbor on Nov. 3, 1962.

On June 21, 1963, members of the Hempstead Lake Civic Association demonstrate in the fight against the Hempstead Village board's practice of down-zoning along Fulton Avenue.

Baton twirler and toe dancer Diane Reimayr, 9, of Uniondale, does a split during a talent contest at Jones Beach State Park on Aug. 17, 1966.

John F. Kennedy emphasizes a point during his speech at the Long Island Arena in Commack on Nov. 6, 1960.

Sen. John F. Kennedy speaks with Jack English, the Democratic leader in Nassau County, before a campaign rally speech at Roosevelt Raceway in Garden City on Oct. 12, 1960.

Race car driver Janet Guthrie rides her No. 15 blue Jaguar at the Bridgehampton Race Circuit in Bridghampton on May 21, 1966.

Musician Arlo Guthrie in concert at C.W. Post College in Brookville on Nov. 17, 1969.

Lord Mayor of Dublin Robert Briscoe, left, talks with Paul Tannenbaum and Max Kaplan at a United Jewish Appeal dinner where Briscoe was honored at Temple Beth Sholom in Roslyn on May 24, 1962.

Long Island State Park Commission workers Hoover Gaffin of West Babylon and Matt Phelan of Oyster Bay paint the wooden railings surrounding the sundeck at a building at the Central Mall at Jones Beach State Park on July 12, 1960.

This sign at Jones Beach State Park seems a little out of place with winter a day away in this Dec. 20, 1969, photo.

Irwin Penzel of Plainview, a math and english teacher, is shown reading Newsday for the latest teachers strike news while on the picket line at the Plainview Junior High School on March 9, 1966.

December 13, 1960: Kids sled down Semon Road in Huntington on a snow day.

March 3, 1960: Cows graze outside during a snow storm near the corner of Rte 25 and 25A in Smithtown.

March 3, 1960: The streets of Hempstead were at a standstill during a snow storm.

January 13, 1964: A car is covered by snow drifts on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown.

A Fairchild Hiller STOL -- short takeoff and landing -- plane on display at Roosevelt Field as part of a Salute to Aviation on Aug. 18, 1968.

On Dec. 3, 1963, a westbound LIRR train derailed in Brookhaven, injuring 20 passengers. The derailment was blamed on a flawed portion of track that had fallen off.

Four seniors in the dental hygiene program of the Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute in Farmingdale stand behind dental chairs and display drills at the school's open house on April 28, 1961. The school, originally founded in 1912, is now known as SUNY Farmingdale.

Carole LaFountaine of Fire Island Pines leans out of the driver's side of the fire truck to check whether the other three female firefighters were ready to roll on July 17, 1969.

Clifford Smith of the Town of Hempstead's Buoy and Sign Division crew in Freeport repairs and paints the body of a buoy on Dec. 2, 1965. That year, the town maintained 364 buoys that were assessed and repaired so that boaters could safely navigate area waters by March.

Lt. Dan Songer glances at a sign posted at the exit of the Suffolk County Air Force base in Westhampton Beach on Oct. 16, 1961. Despite the dangers that Air Force personnel often faced in the skies, the sign proclaimed the open highway was "the most dangerous area in the world."

Dotty Glennen found it easier to ride horsback than drive in Lake Ronkonkoma after a snowstorm on Feb. 15, 1962.

An LIRR work stoppage the morning of Sept. 11, 1967 left only a handful of trains running and many riders stranded. Commuters who had made it to the Mineola station line up at telephone booths to arrange transportation to their final destinations. Regular train service resumed the next day.

Coats and caps of cadets are lined up on a wall at O'Hara Hall on Dec. 4, 1967 at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point. The cadets seen in the background had just participated in an American Red Cross blood drive there.

On April 12, 1967, Councilman John DaVanzo of Mineola assists tow truck driver Ray Damiano of West Islip in ridding the parking lot of the Herricks Shopping Center in Williston Park of stray shopping carts. DaVanzo wanted to bring attention to a new North Hempstead Town ordinance that called for a tow away of abandoned shopping carts.

After a snowstorm, on Feb. 5, 1961, disabled cars cut off a ramp from the Long Island Expressway to the Northern State Parkway. Police estimated that at least 5,000 cars were abandoned on Long Island, and at the height of the storm 40,000 people were without heat or electricity.

On March 10, 1962, Ocean Beach police Sgt. Robert Eger tells four-year-olds Frank Morris and William Urquhart to move away from the leaning homes where they were playing, just in case the structures fell. A few days earlier, a nor'easter hit Long Island's South Shore, destroying 96 homes and causing $10 million in damage.

Brian Beach, 4, of Levittown, holds some good luck charms to ward off any Friday the 13th trouble in 1962.

John Kaczanowski of Roslyn Heights, a park attendant at Searingtown Pond, drills to measure ice before allowing skaters to use the facilities on Jan. 17, 1963.

Steve Anglin, of Babylon, dressed as Santa Claus, boards a Babylon-bound LIRR train on Dec. 16, 1965. Anglin was director of special services for the railroad and welcomed commuters to a Christmas party aboard the train.

The eastbound lane of Sunrise Highway in East Moriches is seen painted with the name "Steve" in giant letters on May 22, 1964.

Usher Sol Levandov stands at the ready with extra bingo cards for the 270 people playing the game at the Hicksville Bingo Hall on Jan. 2, 1962.

Morris Luckerman and Irving Barshai of Hicksville call the numbers at the Hicksville Bingo Hall on Jan. 2,1962.

A woman puts a chip on I-23 at the Empire Hose Company Fire Hall in Merrick on Dec. 14,1964.

Mrs. Carole Potter of Rockville Centre cooks lunch for her children Hillary, Allison, Jonathan, Leonard and David on February 24, 1969.

A potential bidder looks at the auction brochure for The Canoe Place Inn on Montauk Highway in Hampton Bays, which went on the auction block with a starting bid of $275,000 on May 5, 1962. No bids were made that day and the auction closed without a buyer.

Louis Sichling of Massapequa Park, a clerk at the post office on Peninsula Boulevard in Hempstead, is nearly boxed in by packages being mailed for the holidays on Dec.15,1961.

Bags of mail lay on a loading platform before being loaded on trucks for transfer from the Hicksville post office on Dec. 13,1966.

Alice Joline, a great-granddaughter of Francis Scott Key and a summer resident of Shinnecock Hills, sits with Janet Jordan, postmaster of the former Shinnecock Hills Post Office on Aug. 23, 1961. The post office served about 150 families and the building had also been used as a waiting room for the Long Island Rail Road.

Ben Gerstein of Manhattan drops bagel dough into a kettle of boiling water before placing them in the oven to bake at a Hempstead bakery on September 18, 1964.

Nicholas Chimato, a civil servant from Rockville Centre, fixes damaged stop signs at the Nassau County Police Headquarters in Mineola on Sept. 25, 1968

Young boys play together in an integrated area of New Cassel on Sept. 23, 1965.

Shielding their faces, alleged Cosa Nostra members are led into Nassau County Court in Mineola for arraignment after being booked at police headquarters on June 25, 1969. The group was said to be affiliated with the Lucchese crime family and were rounded up in order to identify the ring's new boss following the death of Thomas Lucchese.

A nor'easter on March 15, 1962, devastated the coast of Point O' Woods on Fire Island.

Old Westbury Country Club members lounge around the pool on July 27, 1968.

Royal L. Green of Huntington holds a 1905 photograph of the northeast corner of Wall and Main Streets in Huntington at the same location on July 25, 1963.

On Nov. 10, 1965, few commuters waited at the Huntington LIRR station. It was the day after the Great Northeast Blackout, and trains were still not running on schedule.

On the corner of Montauk Highway and William Floyd Parkway, signs advertise the offerings of the Mastics and Shirley on June 14, 1961.

Thomas Pagano of Wading River ponders a sign on the grass at Smith Point County Park on July 12, 1965.

Mounds of snow line both sides of Oak Street in Uniondale after a winter storm on Feb. 7, 1961.

A pedestrian ponders the dollar haircuts featured on the sign at Carlies Barber Shop on New York Avenue in Huntington Station on March 23, 1963.

More than 500 people showed up for a test for prospective census-takers at the Hempstead Armory on March 9, 1960.

Tommy Wheeler and friends ride a homemade beach buggy on Kenney's Beach in Southold on March 2, 1969.

Bob Schettini, of Brentwood, and Mike Twohig, of Babylon, wax their surfboards on Sept. 7, 1963, at Gilgo Beach.

Mrs. Edward Kelly and her children Steven, 5, and Janice, 3, watch the rainy Armistice Day Parade in Massapequa from their station wagon on Nov. 3, 1968.

The bicycle rack at Robert Cushman Murphy Junior High School in Setauket was overflowing on Sept. 4, 1968. The Three Village Central School District was operating on an austerity budget, eliminating buses for students who lived less than two miles from the school.

Marianne Fitzpatrick of Freeport and Jessie Wheeler of Babylon, part of the LIRR's team of "Metro Mini Maids," pose on June 23, 1969. The Mini Maids were the railroad's answer to airline stewardesses; they greeted commuters and handed out coffee in a special luxury parlor car that ran from Montauk to the Hamptons during the summer.

Sid Track of North Bellmore rides a horse down Jerusalem Avenue in a parade celebrating the 20th anniversary of Levittown on July 23, 1967.

The Bee Hive Department Store on East Main Street in Patchogue was decorated with over 1,200 square feet of bandanas in this May 24, 1960 photo as part of the store's "Gateway to Summer" promotion.

Islip High School students dance to rock and roll music on the baggage car of a Long Island Rail Road train during their "Rolling Prom" on June 24, 1961. A local businessman came up with the idea to hold the prom aboard a train bound from Islip to Montauk, and a donor paid the $3,700 Lloyds of London insurance for the 12 mph trip.

Students eat homemade lunches in the cafeteria of the Nathaniel Woodhull Elementary School in Shirley on Jan. 17, 1968. At the time, the school was operating on an austerity budget and there were no funds for hot lunches.

Jane Schumacher, 13, Cindy Clausen, 11, and Mary Beth McCabe, 11, build a 6-foot-tall snowman on Maple Street in Garden City on Feb. 13, 1969. The girls painted a heart on the snowman in honor of Valentine's Day.

Congressman Herbert Tenzer of Lawrence looks at the window of the American Opinion Bookstore on Church Street in Freeport on May 20, 1966. The bookstore disseminated materials for the conservative, anti-communist John Birch Society.

Sandy Carlson, owner of Sandy's, an outdoor lobster market on Claudio's dock in Greenport, holds up a 16-pound lobster to show tourists in 1969.

Mrs. Edith Mansir plays the piano as the children in her one-room schoolhouse in Wainscott work off some extra energy while dancing the Children's Polka on May 16, 1961. Mrs. Mansir retired in 1972 after having taught at the Main Street school for 28 years.

Juniors from Brentwood High School dance at the school's Christmas cotillion held on board two LIRR freight cars on December 4, 1965. The LIRR added the two cars to another six cars on the special train for the dance.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg watch the St. Patrick's Day parade from the reviewing stand on March 14, 1965 in Hempstead.

On March 14, 1965, Sean P. Keating, Grand Marshal of the Hempstead St. Patrick's Day parade, is joined by Bishop Walter P. Kellenberg and Senator Robert F. Kennedy on the reviewing stand on Main Street in front of the Hempstead Bus Terminal.

A monthlong beard-growing contest comes to an end at Stony Brook University. (May 8, 1964)

Soviet Union Premier Nikita S. Krushchev kicks up his leg outside the Killenworth estate in Glen Cove in 1960.

Riders continue a tradition that claims George Washington and fox hunters set out in the Smithtown Hunt along a LILCO right-of-way in 1966.

Storm damage at Point O' Woods on Fire Island from a devastating nor'ester on March 15, 1962.

Migrant workers harvest Long Island's potatoes, its biggest food crop, before leaving ramshackle camps for southern farms. (1961)

Men on scaffolding paint letters on the water tower on Jericho Turnpike in Jericho on April 19, 1962. The 187-foot tower took a crew of eight men six weeks to paint and required 300 gallons of paint.

Walter P. Kellenberg, Bishop of the Rockville Centre Diocese, right, prompts a St. Patrick's Day laugh from Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson. (1964)

The Long Island Expressway during rush hour in 1969.