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Lewis "Goldie" Hawkins, Palm Beach, 1970s

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title: Lewis "Goldie" Hawkins, Palm Beach, 1970s

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subject: Long Island (N.Y.)—History; Ocean Beach-Fire Island

description: Wall Tag: Lewis "Goldie" Hawkins, Palm Beach, 1970sLewis "Goldie" Hawkins owned and operated Golide's restaurant (present day site of Island Mermaid) from 1951 through the early seventies where celebrities contributed their talents at a piano sing-a-long. Ethel Merman and Art Carney among others were close friends and guests of Goldie. Ocean Beachers recall that "...everybody sang around the piano and danced, it was a very communal feelings..." Accoring to Goldie, "the piano playing, good chef and little competition made the place a success." Lewis "Goldie" Hawkins was a night club pianist. After the success of his Ocean Beach restaurant he opening Goldie's in Manhattan. Goldie presently lives in Palm Beach, Florida where he is a "high society" pianist. Goldie has been described as "...attractive man, full of energy...an excellent piano player."Photograph courtesy of Jo Kearney.Obit - March 18, 2000, The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida · Page 159

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relation: Ocean Beach Historical Society; digital surrogate prepared by the Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University, as part of the “Digitizing Local History Sources” Project funded by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation.

coverage: Ocean Beach-Fire Island

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