Red Hook, New York
in 1949

 This is an old postcard of ours that shows the location of some of the buildings in the photos below.  The photo on it was probably taken sometime in the 1920s.  The view looks north along Broadway.

On the left side of the postcard is the old Red Hook Hotel, now the site of a gas station.  Barely visible behind it in the background is a sign for the Red Hook Drug Store.

On the right side of the postcard is the Scism Chevrolet dealership with Socony (Standard Oil) gas pumps out front.  Behind it appears to be the little Grand Union grocery store (I can just make out the word "Union" on the sign).  Behind that is the cigar/stationery store.  Across the street in the background behind the cigar store is Aucock's grocery.  In the background behind the grocery store, the original Triebel's Garage is just visible in the trees with an "x" written above it.

A correspondent remembers Red Hook:

The bank was right next to my grandfather's house (Dr. Charles Rudd Eno) which now is a mortuary.  He was president of the bank for some time in the 1940's.

The fire house was next to his garage/animal hospital, so we had to listen to the siren wail every day at noon.

My brother, a mutual friend and I "visited" the Fruit Growers Supply off and on one summer building a "fort" inside a large stack of fruit crates.  We stored stuff there for future visits and probably sneaked my grandfather's Pall Mall's to smoke inside our fort.  One day an employee saw us up on top of the stack and came after us, but couldn't find us inside.  The next year or visit (don't remember which) the stack was gone . . burned to the ground.

A correspondent generously contributed the following photographs of the village of Red Hook in Dutchess County, New York.  These were taken in 1949 with a Kodak Brownie camera for a second grade scrapbook project on "My Community".

•  Red Hook Drug Store.  This is still just north of the northwest corner of Broadway and Market Streets and still looks like that - probably always has and hopefully will for a long time to come.  ;-)

•  Aucock's Grocery on the northeast corner of Broadway and Market Streets.

•  (left to right) United Cigar (southeast corner of Broadway and Market), Grand Union Super-ette, Scism Chevrolet dealership.  The Mobile gas pump and sign belong to the the Scism Chevy dealership on the right side of the photo.  I was surprised to see the Grand Union Super-ette - I hadn't known there were such things as convenience stores as early as 1949.

•  The Red Hook Hotel.  This was located on the southwest corner of Broadway and Market Streets.  It was torn down before I was born.  There is a gas station on that site now.

•  The First National Bank of Red Hook.

•  The Fruit Growers' Supply.

•  Red Hook Cold Storage.  I remember this building when I was a child in the 1970s.  It was located off the east side of Broadway / Route 9 south of the village.  I was told it burned down a few years ago.

•  Red Hook Fire Department.

•  Krasdale Grocery and Red Hook Post Office.

•  Schaffer Stores Co. Inc.

•  Wilken Brothers GLF.

Also see our family photos of Triebel's Garage, founded by my great grandfather in 1917 and still in operation in Red Hook.

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