In our Decades Decoded series, we share touchstones of Northport history from the 1940s to the 1990s

A trolley wedding, 1984

The Larkfield School

1983

• Laurie Ann Fitzpatrick was crowned as the first Miss Northport in a beauty pageant sponsored by the Northport Chamber of Commerce

1984

• Davis Aircraft moves out of the Thompson Building
• Mara Brothers save 199 Main Street, a historic Skidmore home, from becoming a parking lot, and they buy and renovate the vacant Thompson Building, turning it into offices

Renovations begin at the Thompson Building

1985

• Hurricane Gloria hits Northport on September 27th

1986

• Halley’s Comet soars across the sky
• Village Clerk Dorothy Dugan retires after serving the Village for 40 years

1987

• Erin Gaffney, a 23-year-old graduate of Northport High School, became the first woman to join the Northport Police Department

1988

• Ninth graders were moved out of the middle school and into the high school as  the new middle school “model” for 6^th through 8^th grades was adopted
• On August 31st, oil being unloaded from a tanker at the LILCO loading platform off Asharoken exploded, sending a shock wave along the North Shore of Long Island and killing tanker Inspector James Belloff

1989

• The Northport Fire Department celebrates its 100^th Anniversary
• Northport Village adds bottle and can recycling 

199 Main Street, saved from becoming a parking lot