Robert Livolsi Knows Oyster Bay
Robert Livolsi, 9, of Oyster Bay called to identify the Aug. 11 mystery picture in the Enterprise Pilot. He said, “I think I know what the mystery picture is. It’s Oyster Bay and I think it is Roosevelt Beach.” His grandmother is the famous Lil Livolsi.
Shelby Coates, a local resident said, “The photo was taken northwards from the west end of the Roosevelt Park Beach, and the southwest tip of Centre Island is in the prominent foreground and Bayville appears dimly in the distance. It does not appear to be a summertime photo.”
Actually the photo was snapped in a perfect second at the annual Polar Bear Swim this year. It seemed so quintessentially Oyster Bay.
Billy Minicozzi said, “It’s a man walking on the beach.” On a sports note he said, football starts in two to three weeks, on the first weekend in September. He is already looking for the Jets to go to the SuperBowl. “The last time they won was in 1969,” he said.
Frank Zangari said, “The picture was taken from Theodore Roosevelt Park, and is looking across the bay to the southwest corner of Centre Island.”
Tony Pilla said in an email. “Thanks for the headline in the Aug. 11 Internet edition.
“On this week I’ll take a gquess and say this is a picture of Bbeekman Beach, again looking across the bay to Centre Island.
“As a young boy i I used to go there a lot and the tree in the picture looks like one where the cars parked under. At low tide, Beekman’s used to be good for clamming which as a boy, i I used to do. At high tide, it was great for swimming because it had a sharp drop- off to get into the deeper water.”
Thank you to Tony Pilla of Anniston, Alabama.
The Karppis had a clamming license when we first came to East Norwich. Our neighbors, the Sieberts, told us about it. Actually we never dug up any clams but we did harvest lots of mussels in those early years in the 1960s. That is, until I decided I had cleaned my last mussel of those long beards under cold running water standing at my kitchen sink. I also seemed to have eaten my fill of them for several years. I’m all right with them again, but only the ones from Whole Foods that are grown on aqua farms – therefore no beards.
The Karppis had a clamming license when we first came to East Norwich. Our neighbors, the Sieberts told us about it. Actually we never dug up any clams but we did harvest lots of mussels in those early years in the 1960s. That is until I decided I had cleaned my last mussel of those long beards under cold running water standing at my kitchen sink. I also seemed to have eaten my fill of them for several years. I’m all right with them again, but only the ones from Whole Foods that are grown on aqua farms – therefore no beards.
And, Christopher Benny sent an email answering the mystery picture of Aug. 2, but it was opened too late for publication. Mr. Benny said correctly, “it looks like Shore Road.” On that picture we are amazed at how everyone knew the site from only a small section of the steel railing along West Shore Road. Additionally, few people call it “West” Shore Road. But nevermind, we all know where it is located.
– DFK
