As it is today in front of Fontana Cement Co.
"She who climbs to the Sphinx's head, a millionaire will surely wed."
As it was at its original home, Ye Ole Anchorage Inn in this postcard dated 1913.
Ye Ole Anchorage Inn
In the 1890s, Captain Billy Graham built a 20 foot replica of the great Egyptian sphinx on the lawn of his roadside inn called Ye Ole Anchorage Inn. He did this with hopes of attracting famous politicians and movie stars. His plan did work and it wasn't long before people such as Teddy Roosevelt and Mae West came to check it out. Mae West even offered to buy it. The Sphinx outlived the Anchorage which was abandoned in the early 1920s and burned down by arson in the late 1920s.
Today remnants can still be found from this thriving Inn.
Note the light in the current picture below. Can you find it in the old picture above?
Wishing well and fireplace which sits along the north side of Montauk Hwy in Blue Point.
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