Family's Motto: Keep On Truckin'

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A family photograph from about 1913 shows two trucks laden with corn heading north on Little Neck Parkway, at what is now the intersection with 74th Avenue in Glen Oaks, then part of Floral Park.

The two trucks were owned by Philip Hoeffner of Floral Park. They were probably headed to market in Manhattan, according to Bal Hoeffner of Melville, Philip Hoeffner's granddaughter.

"The truck on the left is probably an Alco, the one on the right is a baby Mack, both chain-drive trucks," Bal Hoeffner says. Philip Hoeffner is driving the first truck, with his son, George, on top. The second truck is being driven by another son, Philip Hoeffner Jr. Another Hoeffner son, Frank, is on top.

"They were most likely going to the Harlem Market, which was on the east side of Manhattan around 101st Street," Bal Hoeffner says. "They drove to Queens and took the ferry across."

Philip Hoeffner had moved from Elmont to Floral Park around 1900 and had a large farm there, his granddaughter says. In 1920, he moved upstate to Orange County. His son, Philip, kept farming on Little Neck Parkway until the Depression.

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