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The Lyric Market sold general groceries and meats at 171 South Street in Oyster Bay

Bessie and Samuel Custis, parents of Doretha Custis, at the Bombers Club on South Street in Oyster Bay

Bessie Custis, mother of Doretha Custis, in Virginia

Bessie Custis with her cousin Dorothy Cousins in Oyster Bay's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park

Bessie Custis, mother of Doretha Custis, at Kayler Fish Market in Oyster Bay, below her second-floor apartment

Doretha Custis with her mother Bessie and Miss Prula James

Birthday party "in the alley" off Summit Street in Oyster Bay. Nona Marshall at center was one Of Oyster Bay's first African American cheerleader

Walter Smith, bartender at Oyster Bay's Bombers Club, a social club on South Street next to the Mt. Olive Baptist Church. A native of Exmoor, Virginia, Mr.. Smith tended bar as well at Brad's Bar on Audrey Avenue, and worked as a mason and cook in…