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HISTORICAL

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•1951

The Oceanside Knights of Columbus is founded.

•1954

The Lincoln Shopping Center opens, featuring a Woolworth’s, a Food Fair and a National Shoes.

•1959

Murray Handwerker turns the Roadside Rest Property on Long Beach Road, which had grown to become a major local eatery, into the country’s first Nathan’s Famous hotdog outside of Coney Island.

•1961

The Town of Hempstead builds the first garbage incinerator power plant in the country next to the landfill on Long Beach Road.

•1970

Roughly 200 Oceanside High School students boycott their graduation in opposition to the Vietnam War.

•1952

Temple Avodah is founded.

•1955

The Oceanside School District dedicates its current high school on Skillman Avenue.

•1960

St. Anthony’s underground shrine to the Virgin Mary burns down in a fire caused by a short circuit in its electrical organ.

•1970

The first St. Anthony’s Feast is held.

•1972

The state Department of Environmental Conservation declares shellfishing in the area illegal, putting a definitive end to Oceanside’s oyster industry.

•1973

A census reveals that Oceanside’s population had leveled off at around 42,000.

•1988

The 180-foot landfill on Long Beach Road is closed.

•1997

•2001

Chwatsky’s, a prominent department store in Oceanside, closes.

Oceanside students open a time capsule buried in celebration of America’s bicentennial in 1976. •2012 Hurricane Sandy devastates the area, displacing hundreds of •2014 residents. In response to a slump in business, Nathan’s moves to a smaller location on Long Beach Road.

•2018

In December, South Nassau Communities Hospital merges with the Mount Sinai Health System, making it the Long Island flagship hospital in the Mt. Sinai network, which is based in New York City.

•2017

Costco, a wholesale warehouse, opens in Oceanside.

•2020

Oceanside was hit with the coronavirus pandemic..