I can’t begin to tell you how this saddens me. The Calderone was indeed a beauty. I remember it fondly as the location of my High School graduation. Guess it fell to the ravages of the town and the radical changes Hempstead saw beginning in the 60’s. The same thing happened to my old high school as they burned it to the ground. It was destroyed as the entire town has been. Hempstead had been a thriving high class beautiful historic town which now is in ruins.It all began with blockbusting— living proof of what a segment of the population can do to a place. How sad I now have to be so ashamed of my almamater.
I can’t begin to tell you how this saddens me. The Calderone was indeed a beauty. I remember it fondly as the location of my High School graduation. Guess it fell to the ravages of the town and the radical changes Hempstead saw beginning in the 60’s. The same thing happened to my old high school as they burned it to the ground. It was destroyed as the entire town has been. Hempstead had been a thriving high class beautiful historic town which now is in ruins.It all began with blockbusting— living proof of what a segment of the population can do to a place. How sad I now have to be so ashamed of my almamater.