[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by BarryRX

I grew up on Long Island, and it seems like Jones Beach (west end 2 and Smith Point Park) were always there. We would go every weekend and often during the week. It seemed like all the radios were tuned to either 77wabc or 1010wins. The water was always so cold it was hard to get into at the beginning of the summer, but the waves for body surfing were great and we would spend hours in the water and come out with blue lips and chattering teeth. Remember, this was before air conditioning was commonplace and going to the beach was the only relief from the heat. Some of my best childhood memories!

I do remember 1010WINS !!!!

Yes, the water was cold but that's why the people flocked to the beaches.

I have pictures of my dad's sisters on Jones beach in the "flapper days of the roaring twenties". Though demure by today's standards, those bathing suits must have shocked my sainted old Grandmother.

I also have pics on Coney Island where it was "blanket to blanket" congested with people escaping the city heat. I think some must have gone by train.

Also, anyone from Jersey remembers "The Garden State Parking Lot" on Sunday evenings heading back home........the Garden State Parkway was always bumper to bumper..........but we eventually found side roads through farm country........should anyone forget that N.J. was known for their tomatoes and other crops.

People only think of the N.J. Turnpike oil refineries as shown on "The Sopranos"........but our birth state did have a lot of farmland plus historic sites from the Revolutionary war.......many historic towns, ditto........like Princeton, Morristown, etc., etc., etc.

Plus, Cape May N.J. is very quaint if one is looking for quaint and not filled with the teeny boppers as depicted on the show about the Jersey shore at Seaside Heights........who by the way are not even from N.J. (maybe one of them was).

We also would go to Asbury Park and sit high up on some ledge there, enjoying the view of the ocean...........that was before Tony Soprano met his fellow hoods at Asbury (on the show).

Ditto for Wildwood Crest, Wildwood, Long Beach Island, Sandy Hook State Park, Point Pleasant, and so many others........especially BARNEGAT LIGHTHOUSE STATE PARK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!