I also worked on the boardwalk in the fifties first at Bud's cat game where you tried to knock the cat dolls over with a baseball and then at Mr. Haneys snackbar which was under the covered portion of the boardwalk (i worked there two summers and then I worked for Ray manuel's Pee Wee bar which sold all the regular boardwalk goodies ie hotdogs hamburgers dogs on a stick etc. Like every body says it was a glorious time a time we'll never experience again.
All the lunch time trips up on the "Old Pier" to look at the girls or watch the people dance ( the beachbop) I remember going to work at 10:00am and really not being able to see the ocean for all the crowd on the boardwalk until about 3pm before it cleared up enough to see the oceanfront again.
I remember going back to school in the fall with my left hand still being stained from making sno cones all summer long and cotton candy.
Then I turned 16 and got a "Real Job" working at the A&P grocery store till i graduated in 1960 and really had to go to work.
Oh well so much for the memories.

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Enjoy the articles of so many from Fletcher,most,if not all,always bring back pleasant memories.However,there was/were unhappy events as well.I was a member of the Elsir Behner Little Theatre during my Fletcher years (42-48).A fellow member worked weekends at/on the roller coaster,testing the rails,retrieving lost articles,etc,dangerous job!One Saturday,there had been a rehearsal at the "Theatre" and,I went home thereafter.The phone rang,I answered it,there had been a horrific accident,at the roller coaster site.Our fellow "thespian" had been killed at the site,hit or run over by a roller coaster wagon,having been sent up for a test run.I never went to that area,until that monstrosity was torn down.

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