I am so pleased to see the historic building on Main Street being re-built, following the terrible fire last year. It now appears that it will again make Port Washington more beautiful.
Ironically, the archives in the Oral History Department of our Public Library indicate that a building on this same site on Main Street and Herbert Avenue burned down on Jan. 22, 1922.
Port News editor Ernest Simon later wrote: “It was the most disastrous fire in the history of the community.”
Unfortunately, my favorite Japanese restaurant was also destroyed in this blaze last year. I only wish Mr. and Mrs. Yamacuchi will be greeting their loyal patrons in the new location just one block west on Main Street when they reopen there soon.
—Myron Blumenfeld
Editors note: Blumenfeld is the co-founder of Residents for a More Beautiful Port Washington.
