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Inset photograph of Walter Smith from 150.002 (see description, Bombers Club and Walter Smith)

Langston Francis, pitching for the Oyster Bay Bombers Club, c. 1950

Langston Francis pitched for the Bombers Club baseball team in the 1940s. The club played Sunday afternoons on the Oyster Bay High School field, against teams from Long Island and coastal Connecticut. The families of the home team hosted barbecues…

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…

Group photograph of teachers and students of the Oyster Bay Bible School