This photo was taken in 1938 on Clark(e*) Street. The house is the home my parents, William and Bertha Baker, bought and moved into in 1922 with their four children. I and three other siblings were born in this home. I was learning to ride a two wheel bicycle in this photo. Clark Street was tarred and easier to learn to ride on but we were only permitted to ride on Jefferson Ave. after we learned , which was a dirt road that ran along the East side of our home from Perry Street to Suffolk Ave., My Dad worried about traffic even in those days . Though there were only four houses on our Street the pole road ( **) ran from East Brentwood (as a dirt road) to Washington Ave. , was tarred to Madison Ave. and was again a dirt road to Wicks Road to Pilgrim State Hospital property.Eleanor Baker Bazata
* there was no E in Clark Street while I was growing up there. I don’t know when that changed.
**the pole road was so called because of the high tension poles that ran the length of Long Island . After all the housing began to develop in North Brentwood those “pole roads” disappeared into the developments with other names like Commercial Blvd., etc.
