Glen Cove, New York recent comments:

Now a Russian Embassy building.

When I looked at the Belcher Hyde maps, it looks as if the land was owned by the Willets and not the Coles.

This is my home. I have been enjoying Wikimapia for some time. It's so exciting to see my house on here!

My father worked there from when he was out of High School until his retirement. He worked underground with only a red light bulb in the room mixing emulsion with his bare arms for many years. That was before OSHA came in. The whites of his eyes were mostly silver in color. He died of Lou Gehrig's disease. A few years later a co- worker in the dame department died of the same illness. So yes, exposure to contaminants is a good question. Our family did have someone research the connection and there was some proof that ALS could be chemically induced.

Does anyone remember the name of the bar across the street? My wife and I had our first kiss at a Christmas party there in 1977.

I was an electrician on the nightshirt when production was down . myself and a helper would be re-wiring new controls for running the film process . I worked there from late 60s to early 70 . I was around 23!yrs old .

I went to Fidel for 2 summers. I remember Donna Summer's On the Radio was playing and I was rocking my Wonder Woman bathing suit. I remember the big house or was it a mansion? I recall the big dome, taking gymnastics, swimming lessons, ceramics, tetherball, the water nearby with the horshoe crabs that creeped me out. I only have 2 pics of me and my friend with painted clown faces.

Let everyone judge for themselves. We haven't changed anything, only restored everything! The ONLY thing we added were the copper gutters. If you don't like them, I'm sorry!

Gaudy how? That is not true at all.

Sorry. It was the father of my friend who was the carpenter. And, the job was done in the early 1950's.

A bit of trivia about West Island. One of my closest friends was a carpenter who worked for the Morgan's. There was a large house (not a mansion, but large to me), visible from the road that ran from the causeway to the creek. The house was in terrible condition, but the family liked the roof. So, scaffolding was erected to support the roof, while the entire house and foundation below was removed. Then, the present house was built up to the original roof. This was the house that Jacqueline Kennedy lived in after the assassination of her husband.

I presume you live in what we called the stables, since remodeled. Most of the history posted above. I have pics of our home, since remodeled after a fire that happened after my family sold the place. Mrs. Richardson Pratt owned the home between you and Dosoris Pond. And the very lovely, Mrs. J.S. Morgan, Jr. lived on West Island. Salutations was, perhaps, the ultimate, ultimate. And the dear lady was a kind soul.

I was a lead man in the film cutting department in Glen Cove. The rolls of film were 4 foot in height by up to 3000 foot long and weighed a several hundred pounds. We would roll them around to the machines in hand trucks and load them behind the cutting machines with a winch. We would cut that roll with a machine that had several razor sharp knives and usually made 2 cuts on a roll like 24" and 18". We would use cardboard tubes and tape the film to them then cut them anywhere between 1200 to 1800 feet. We always worked in the dark and the storage house was huge. The chemical cookers which put on the emulsion on acetate stunk. I never liked going to close to that because I didn't think it was healthy. We would cut the film into sheets or rolls. We also used nasty chemicals like trichlorethelyn to clean the blades. It was very heavy lifting and hard work for about 4 bucks an hour. The job was dangerous. We would get cuts on our hands from film or the blades. Someone even lost there hand there. Very interesting work for extremley large cameras.

Has been corrected.

I think about that time capsule often, and hope someone might have saved it ?

I have seen the updated Cedarcroft and sadly it seems the new owners have effectively ruined it by turning it into a tacky, gaudy mess. Not surprising with the types of people that are now buying up everything on the Gold Coast. Sad nonetheless.

I would love to see the renovations, as well. I rented a wing of the main house in the early 2000s for a little over a year and a-half.

I was a camper at Fidel in the 60's to 70's. Remember Marvin, who guided the buses into the parking lot? There is a time capsule my group buried by the baseball field near the old cemetery.

I had worked at the European Chemco factory in the Netherlands in the late 1970s, and had been to Glen Cove twice. For almost another decade I was with their German dealer. Up to my knowledge at least in that decade the film coating process did not require any considerable amount of harmful chemistry. In fact I do not recall any medical incident.