“SURE-SET ALWAYS!” THE OWNER OF A ONE-TIME TRULY CLASSY SOUTHOLD MAIN ROAD GIFT SHOP FROHNHOEFER’S TRULY BRANCHED-OUT WITH "SEA TOW"
By Danny McCarthy
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When I moved from Jamaica Estates {Queens NY} in 1988 to Southold {the North Fork of Long Island}, soon enough there was such a beautifully-operated business located on the Southold Main Road {Route 25}.
???It was FROHNHEFER’s and one of the managers was BRUCE NOHE whose sister Susan ran the store named Mistletoe & Holly that was located in Southold Feather Hill.
????FROHNHOEFER’s remarkably has its building history all set-up by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities (SPLIA) organization. As an archivist, I made sure to locate the associated SPLIA pages from the Town of Southold Laserfiche {website} especially knowing ALL ALONG just how to go about and obtain the listing.
???Southold SPLIA record SD-61 is the associated document number for FROHNHOEFER’S building.
???I’ll give just a bit of explanation, okay? Thanksalatee!:
????“Medium-low density area in center of historic Southold. The Main Road, once king’s highway, is lined with trees and many interesting old structures surrounded by lawns and greenery. This block is mostly commercial. – 2 ? story, 3-bay, gable roof, white shingle house with dentils in cornice. …
I’M TELLING ‘THE TOOTH’ {DENTIL}: “a number of small, rectangular blocks resembling teeth and used as a decoration under the soffit of a cornice.”
1.???????????{CORNICE}: “an ornamental molding around the wall of a room just below the ceiling. OR an overhanging mass of hardened snow at the edge of a mountain precipice.”
?????… Date of initial construction {1787}.
Until the big modern store front was constructed in front of it, this house was a component of the historic street-scape. Today, it still contributes to the ambiance of the area. The house was Reeves in 1858 and 1873. …
????… The Frohnhoefer Electric Company began on this gingerbread house of the 1800s, a landmark on Main Street, Southold … in 1873 a final renovation made it the largest lamplighting fixture showroom on the End End. …
????… HORACE PRINCE TILLINGHAST (1838-1898) b. Sthld 19 Jan. 1838, d. Arshamomoque 17 Dec. 1898. m. 11 Nov. 1860 Jane Amelia Reeve ‘Jennie’ (b. Sthld 19 Apr. 1841, d. Arshamomoque 12 May 1884. Both bur. Willow Hill Cem. Only child of Charles and Clarissa Harlow (Vail) Reeve. … Jennie and Chris lived until 1872 with her parents in the house now expanded into Frohnhoefer’s Lamp Store, Southold, then moved to the farm her father bought on Albertson Lane.
??Horace was station master in Southold for the L.I.R.R. He stayed in the Southold Hotel {which of course folks became SOUUTHOLD SAVINGS BANK!} and returned on weekends to the farm. ~ Jennie taught piano to many students in Greenport and Southold.”
????The Long Island Traveler-Mattituck Watchman dated April 4. 1974 included a collage-like collection enter regarding Industrial Arts Gaining in Our Area. One photo joined with caption that was included was this:
????“Upper right, Larry Borkowski, MHS {Mattituck High School} 9th grader from Cutchogue, drawing plans for a magazine holder; instructor Joseph Frohnhoefer with MHS with graders Judy Jones, and Pat Harbes, both from Mattituck, highlighting the additional interest by high school {co-eds} in industrial artic.”
THEN I WAS ABLE TO CASUALLY SPOT THIS
THAT WAS “EXCHANGED” IN
The Long Island Traveler-Mattituck Watchman dated September 4, 1975 so brilliantly shined with:
????“One of great attractions of the North Fork is the water facilities to be found almost a stone’s throw away from any spot in Southold Town. One of the side effects of this natural resource is the need for full-time bay constables.
????Last Sunday was a slow day for bay constables Bill Januick and Joe Fronhoefer. It was Labor Day weekend but the overseas skies kept the boat traffic far below what a sunny summer day usually brings. Marine Unit One left its slip at Boatman’s Harbor in New Suffolk around 11:10 a.m. last Sunday. At the helm was Bill Januick. He has been a full-time bay constable for Southold Town for 11 years. Everyday {stet} during the summer he, as well as Joe Fronhoefer takes a tour of duty off Southold Town. As the good boating weather decreases to do his tours{,} he is on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Like his counterparts on land, his job is basically one of law enforcement. But the bay constables’ biggest worry is not the law breaker but the Sunday sailor whose lack of common sense and what they did after it left could not be determined by Januick’s presence. But for the first time that he was there they did nothing. …
????… Fronhoefer was heading into Goose Neck Creek to look for a stolen boat{,} when around a quarter after two{,} a report came in of two boats sinking in Gardiner’s Bay. Both Southold Town Marine Units as well as the Shelter Island Marine Unit, raced to the scene. One of the boats was catamaran and its two men was still in it. They were from Shelter Island and that township’s marine took unit took them aboard and toward their craft back to port. The other boat was a {12-foot} outboard. There were four passengers, two adults and two children. One wave from a passing boat had swamped them. The four were unhurt. A sailboat had picked them up before the police boats got to the scene. The next half hour was spent trying to get a two line attached to the capsized craft. Once the grappling hook was secured{,} it kept {stet} slipping off. Eventually the boat was beached and secured with a tie line.
????For the remainder of the afternoon{,} Januick remained on patrol in the bay while Fronhoeffer checked Goose Bay for that stolen black row boat. He went through the inlets that make up that area{,} but without success. He exited Goose Neck Bay and then took one last turn along Southold Bay before heading in.”
The County review {stet} dated July 30, 1987:
?“THANKS
Since The Observer began its campaign to raise funds for Save Huntington’s Lighthouse, Inc., donations have been arriving. An anonymous donor gave $20, and another $25, Tom Rost gave $100, as did Anttanasio, Sea-Tow Northport Inc. gave $50 … Save Huntington’s Lighthouse, Inc. thanks these contributors but much more is need to save the historic light. Any amount will help this important task of saving one of Huntington’s valuable landmarks.”
NOTE:
Save Huntington’s Lighthouse, Inc. is presently The Huntington Lighthouse Preservation Society, Inc.:
SINCE FROHNHOEFER’S HAD CLOSED – A LAMPS BY VINCENT TOOK ITS PLACE.
????Thanks go out to The Suffolk Times reporter Beth Young who went on to run EAST END BEACON as she had a May 13, 2011 The Suffolk Times article:
????“Southold summers have been less complete since Thompson’s Emporium closed several years ago, leaving hamlet residents with nowhere to go to pick up a beach pail, a badminton racket or sunblock and sunglasses for a trip down to the water’s edge.
????Southold resident Peggy Killian, co-owner of Eastern Tire in Cutchogue, has missed Thompson’s Emporium badly and, judging from her conversations with friends and neighbors at the post office and around town, she’s not alone.
????“If you needed something, they always had it. They were open a long time,” she said.
????After Thompson’s closed, Ms. Killian began thinking about the possibility of opening a similar shop in Southold. But it wasn’t until the Arcade in Greenport, which carried variety store items similar to Thompson’s Emporium, closed last winter that she decided to jump head first into the retail business.
????This Saturday, her new shop, Southold Emporium, will open on the south side of Main Street in the space that had been Lamps by Vincent and, before that, Frohnhoefer’s Electric.
NOW THERE’S A TRUE AND REAL DYNAMIC COMBINATION OF INDIVIDUAL BUSINESSES ALIGNED WITHIN THE BUILDING:
Century 21 Albertson Realty {where TOM SCALIA is a representative agent} & Body Smart {run by CHRIS CZARTOSIESKI}!
????Sag Harbor Express dated July 18, 2013 “carried” a quite unique announcement adjoining the ad placed in that edition from Sag Harbor Yacht Club:
“Sea Tow
The Ultimate boating tool! Anytime, anywhere, Sea Tow will come to the rescue. From a tow to shore to brining you gas because you ran out, Sea Tow will be there, nationwide. Annual membership is $169 Available at Sea Tow Southold”
Times-Review Newspapers has a Joseph Frohnhoeffer – Archives Suffolk Times link where I have made sure to incorporate some of the information about Joseph Frohnoefer that had already been entered in The Suffolk Times editions mentioned within that link “write here in my post!” I selected portions to either quote or paraphrase, and I appreciate that I can do that procedure. ~ Especially after I caught the HUGE TYPO in one of the first article “on board” the 04/27/2019 Joe Werkmeister article:
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“Sea Town {stet}CEO Joseph Frohnhoefer III couldn’t recall exactly how many engines the boat has had.”
The Suffolk Times dated 03/24/2015 had to sadly report: Joseph Frohnhoefer Jr., founder of Sea Tow International, dies at 71 – The article was by Paul Squire
????AS AN EVEN RESPECTABLE TRIBUTE – I WILL MERELY JUST PLACE THE LINK OF THAT PAUL SQUIRE JOSEPH FROHNHOEFER JR. LINK “WRITE BELOW”:
The Suffolk Times dated 03/25/2015 featured: Service planned for Sea Tow’s Captain Joseph Frohnhoefer by Paul Squire
????A service to celebrate the life of Sea Tow founder and philanthropist Joseph Frohnhoefer has been planned for this Sunday, according to a local funeral home.?Mr. Frohnhoefer, who founded the marine rescue business in 1983 and donated resources and time to charitable causes on the North Fork, died Tuesday. He was 71.
????The event?will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. at Founders Landing’s Wharf House in Southold, according to?DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home.?Those attending are requested to wear casual attire.
????The family has asked that any memorial donations be made to the Sea Tow Foundation for Boating Safety & Education, P.O. Box 1325, Southold, New York 11971 or?the Southold Fire Department, P.O. Box 908 , Southold, New York 11971.
The Suffolk Times 02/02/2016 edition included: Sea Tow announces company’s leadership to stay in the family by Nicole Smith.
Sea Tow was founded in 1983 to help boaters stranded in the water after the Coast Guard changed its policies about responding to non-emergency calls while Mr. Frohnhoefer was working as Bay Constable for Southold Town Police. The company has since expanded internationally and moved beyond towing stalled boats.
????Sea Tow Services International has named Sea Tow founder Joseph Frohnhoefer’s son Capt. Joseph Frohnhoefer III as Chief Executive Officer of the company, and his daughter?Kristen Frohnhoefer, as?president after the 2015 death of Joseph Frohnhoefer.
????Georgia Frohnoefer is chairwoman of the company’s Board of Directors and Joe Jr’s wife. Ms. Frohnoefer said in a statement that the promotion recognizes the leadership roles her children have had at the company in the past, especially after Mr. Frohnhoefer’s passing at age 71.
????“Captain Joe would be proud, as am I, to see his children assume control of the company he founded now more than 30 years ago as the creator of the private, non-emergency towing industry,” Ms. Frohnhoefer said.
?????“It is a special testament to the strength and longevity of any family-run business when the children of the founder assume the reins and direction of the company,” Ms. Frohnhoefer said. “Working with our many Sea Tow franchises, employees and partners, we will guide Sea Tow into the future; always with Capt. Joe Jr.’s pioneering spirit in our hearts.”
????“Joseph and Kristen spent their childhoods immersed in the Sea Tow business — Joseph out on Sea Tow boats and operations with his father, and Kristen in the office engaged in all aspects of administration with me,” Georgia Frohnhoefer said.
???The two occasionally traded places, which gave them a better understanding of what is best for the company, Georgia Frohnhoefer said.
????Joseph graduated?from SUNY Maritime College and “virtually grew up on a boat.” He was one of the first Sea Tow deckhands and became a Sea Tow captain after earning his first U.S. Coast Guard Captain’s license at 19 years old. He joined Sea Tow full-time in 2002.
????As CEO, he will?oversee Sea Tow’s entire business with a focus on its domestic and international external operations, including legal, franchise development, operations, and compliance, the statement read. He also maintains key relationships across the marine industry.
????Kristen graduated from Dickinson College and worked as a Spanish teacher for 10 years. She spent her summers working at Sea Tow. She joined the company full-time in 2003. Her role as president requires her to be responsible for all internal operations, including the membership program, marketing, sales, communications and 24-Hour Customer Care Center operations.
????She also focuses on business development and maintains key relationships across the marine industry. She?also serves as president of the Board of Directors of the Sea Tow Foundation and on the Board of Marine Marketers of America.
“After more than three decades, Sea Tow I {is} still going strong patrolling local waters” was the 04/27/2019 The Suffolk Times article by Joe Werkmeister.
For their most challenging salvage jobs, the crews at Sea Tow Eastern Long Island turn to this their oldest, most trusted boat ~ Sea Tow I. More than three decades after first entering the water, the 24-foot Sea Tow I vessel still operates with its original hull. Sea Tow I has responded to stranded boaters across the East End for 35 years. The steering wheel is original. The distinctive yellow paint dates back to 1997, having received only occasional touch-ups since. It’s estimated the tow boat has responded to 11,750 jobs and operated for just under 30,000 hours of towing. Sea Tow I dates back to the Southold company’s founding.?An unexpected note arrived from the son of the man who helped design it was received.
????{Sea Tow CEO Joseph Frohnhoefer III}, whose father founded Sea Tow, joked that he spent so much time around Sea Tow I as a kid and that its tow post could have been used to chart his height.
????The Captain of Sea Tow I is Bill Barker of Mattituck who owns Sea Tow’s Eastern Long Island franchise.
????Mr. Barker said: Sea Tow I was the operation’s main boat up until about 2005. Nowadays, on a given weekend during the busy season, three or four boats will be working at the same time, so Sea Tow I still gets its use.
????“We’re not afraid to scratch it,” the captain said. “[The hull] [has} been cosmetically repaired, but it’s never had structural damage to it. It’s been beached, wedged in rocks in Sag Harbor, it’s been run into by other boats.”
????Part of the evolution of newer boats is a thinner fiberglass hull. The Sea Tow I’s thicker hull makes it better suited to bump into rocks when pulling boats that end up in precarious positions.
????Mr. Frohnhoefer remembered that one time the windshield blew out of the boat. He was riding with his father en route to Sag Harbor for a rescue on a “nasty, nasty day.” ~ “The waves stacked up,” he said. “We got on top of a wave, dove and blew it out,” he recalled.
????While in North Carolina, Chuck Bower had set out to refurbish a boat he had built. It was supposed to be a short project, but ended up taking several years. As he prepared to put the boat in the water, he realized he was no longer signed up for Sea Tow. As he filled out the paperwork to rejoin, he noted in a comment section that his father, Horace, had been vice president and part owner of Privateer Boats, the company that designed and built the original Sea Tow vessels. He had no idea at the time that Sea Tow I was still in operation today.?
????In an interview, he recalled spending time at the shop as a teenager. “I remember going over there one day and seeing the Sea Tow boats and asking the president of the company about what was going on with the boat,” said Mr. Bower, 54. “He explained the Sea Tow concept and what it was. I just thought that was kind of cool, all these years later, it’s this wonderful service that’s available and been successful. I thought to myself, our boats were some of the first boats that they used.”
????Privateer Boats is now known as Radcliffe Boatworks and is located in Belhaven, N.C. Mr. Bower said that as a teenager he worked for the company after school in the wood department. He went on to join the Navy at 18. He’s now a full-time firefighter.
????Asked how much longer Sea Tow I might be in service, Mr. Frohnhoefer didn’t hesitate: “Bill will keep it going forever,” he said with a laugh.
????Joseph Frohnoefer III said of the venerable tow boat: “It was kind of a perfect design.” ~ “It had good balance. And as Bill [Barker] always said, you knew the boat would take you home.”?
????“{T}he {then} upcoming season will be its 36th. As technology changes and boat design evolves, Sea Tow I remains a constconstant — a reliable workhorse that can handle just about anything thrown its way.”
A Yankee magazine online featuring a currents column titled Double Up! concerns this:
????“Jeppesen Marine’s Club and Sea Tow are in cahoots! The cartography gland and the on-water assistance company have joined forces to make their members’ boating experiences safer and more relaxing. Now Club Jeppesen members can enjoy a 15-percent discount on new Sea Tow Membership options. And Sea Tow members will be offered a reduced membership rate ($69) vs ($89) for joining?
Just for the sake of it –
I was readily able to locate the below website link from the Southold Local website carrying an article by Lisa Finn about Capt Joseph Frohnhoefer:
HERE TOO IS SOMETHING NOT THAT FAR FROM A MISSING LINK WITH THE WEBSITE LINK OF SEA TOW: https://www.seatow.com/