Pictured, left to right, at Gertrude Griffiths' boarding house are:  Miss Margaret Sullivan (she was a ladies' maid for a wealthy Long Island family); Mrs. Helen Fendell (her husband was on the school board); Carolyn Ann Griffiths (daughter of the owner); Mrs. Cameron (her son owned a local home heating oil company); Mrs. O'Hare (her son-in-law was car dealer Peter Grady); Mildred Shaw; and Miss Isabelle Vanderhof.
"My mother Gertrude Griffiths owned the house at 271 Foster Avenue until her death in 1960. During World War II she rented rooms to servicemen stationed at the airfield and a family evacuated from London (the father was at the airfield).  After the war she took in elderly boarders until her death."
Photograph from the early 1950's, from the collection of Sayville Library.