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July 11, 1892 I was born in Elmont Fosters Meadow Road & Central Ave at the present time Elmont Road and Linden Blvd. Dad had a saloon or Tavern which they call it today, it was an old established place called “Hermans” in later years. the building was demolished 1960 it must have been almost 100 years old, there is a gas station on the plot. Dad bottled beer from kegs supplied by the Welz and Zerweck from Ridgewood N.Y. to wash the bottles required a lot of water and there was no running water these days, there was a live stream in back of Saloon. Dad had a platform built with a tank which held about 200 gallons he made a water wheel and put it in the stream and

From Jeannie Whalen Picchioni on Facebook: “Behind the bar is my great grandfather, Joseph Gunther (mustache) and his son (Edward Joseph I believe).”