Sunday, April 2, 2006
Rockaway Beach then and now
Today we drove down to Rockaway Beach. We parked at B 96th street and walked to the end of the boardwalk at B126th Street. We usually take a ride out there a couple of times a year either before Memorial Day or after Labor Day before the beach crowds. There seemed to be a lot of new buildings in the area. There is a new housing development around B 98th Street where Rockaway Playland used to be. Back in my high school days Roy and I would take the Q53 bus to B116th Street near where his grandmonther lived. Back in the early 1960s my Aunt Rebecca and Uncle George had a summer bungalow at B 27th street where my parents took us. We used to love playing in the arcades over there. They have been gone for years.
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Bruce, one of my guilty pleasures is The Ramones. They have a great song entitled Rockaway Beach. All that time I spent in Jersey and I never made the pilgramage. Shame on me!
Mike - one of the Ramones was a classmate of mine at Forest Hills High School class of 1967. In November 2001 a flight to the Domincan Republic crashed in Rockaway. They will build a memorial at B 116th Street and the Boardwalk.
Bruce, you went to school with a Ramone and you kept this from me all these years? Which one?
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