Throwback Thursday: Main Street at Deer Park Avenue

The best thing about our communities is our ability to take a peak back into the past and see the visual changes our forefathers made on our the places we live.

Occasionally, we here at Patch will dig up or find some older photographs, videos and more to share with the community to do a bit of time travel into what was and, now, what is.

This week's photograph should look very familiar, and at the same time very different. A view shown from the southwest corner of West Main Street at Deer Park Avenue/Fire Island Avenue shows a very different Babylon Village.

This 1907 postcard shows the village during the turn of the century in a day and age before cars.

Easily visible in the photograph is the steeple of the First Presbyterian Church, still standing today, as well as the building that still houses Bubble, Ooh La La and other businesses and apartments.

A water fountain shown in the right-hand side was removed in 1917 due to concerns over public fountains spreading disease. A replica was added in the past decade outside of the Village