The Glen Rock Years

Started with a 10 dollor deposit on a house in 1949 in Glen Rock. It was cheeper to buy than to rent in Bayonne. We were not married as yet.

148 Midwood Road

Looking across the street

The front yard

Our clump of birch trees. Al hung a hammock there in the summer

Princey #1

Princey looking out

We had the worse lawn - all dandelions

and that chair attacked me


Our Wedding  
   

Al in the Glen Rock Police Department badge #15 and I

Denise's Christening - Terry, Tom, Denise, Tommie, Dorothy

The Bayonne Girls & Baby Denise

Leroy & Auntie

Terry with a cigar band on his nose

Mae and Leroy Wilson


Florence, Thomas, Regina, ?, Tom, Denise

Tom was singing Daddy's Little Girl


Visiting my Sister in Bayonne

Tommie

Home from School

Terry on the Phone

 

Trip to Biscayne Bay.

On the beach. Rita loved wearing this suit.

From a sight seeing boat.

On the Causeway

Flagler Monument

Just got back from Florida. Got coconuts on the lawn


 

Summer BBQ
in the Backyard

Glen Adair grilling in the rain.

That canvas caught on fire

Lou Everts

 

Mary Everts


Just a Sunday drive to Bear Mountain

It was clear and crisp.



Christmas

Al felt so bad about that tree he brought it home for 25 cents

Raymond next to Charlie Brown's Christmas tree

Hattie

John, Al, Raymond, Bill



Trip to Cape Cod
Dennis Play House

A trip to Cape Cod in Clint's Cadillac. Look at that woodie in the background

Cape Cod Light House

Dennis playhouse - "Glass Menagerie" with Dana Andrews

That was the first time Al ever had white chocolate

Rita and I chaperoned Clint & Mae

It was a lot of fun stumbling down the hill.

A guift shop

 



Coral Gables

See her tail?

Rita waving

Katherine Adair's father in Coral Gables

Glen Adair

Still a lot of property available in Miami

Biscayne Bay

From the boat in Miami

Raymond looking at Miami


At Manasquan Beach with Terry

Terry with a shell on his head


Mummers Day Parade in Philly

 


NAS Brooklyn

Al's buddies

NAS Floyd Bennett Field


Radium Springs

On the way to Radium Springs

1940 Chevolet. Neither George nor Rita had a licence, but we drove down to Georgia anyway.

George & Rita crossing the Chesapeak.

Stopped here to cool off

George from Germany


Radium Springs


Trip to Point Pleasant

We almost bought the Riveria Restaurant that was located there for $35,000.

Denise at Asbury Park Beach. She was afraid of the waves.

John Bonner's boat in Point Pleasant

 

Just a day at the shore


Tommy's Confirmation

Mae says look at the camera.

 

 


Wildwood

In Wildwood Crest, they let us keep Princy in the room, they even gave us food and water for him

In Wildwood Crest

In Wildwood

Rita ran down this sand dune


Princey #1

He was a good dog but he stole things all the time


Out on the Lawn in the Fall

Fall around 1952

Albert (before fat)

Uncle Tim Kearney

Marge DeFeo.
Her father owned a saw mill in Patterson.

Uncle John's car

Jackie Voshardt on his tricycle


Putting in the patio

Al put those curbs in and moved the plants out and put pink tint in the cement

The patio that Al built


Jack, Eileen, Evart, Al, Mrs. Evardt.

We were all neighbors, and played cards

The Italian Girl


Ruth Winters

Al and Jimmie's girlfriend

At the Manasquan inlet

Rusty the cat

We still have that mirror

Rita and our neighbor

At Stanley's house

Terry

That was our favorite car - the English Austin

Sunday dinner

Terry & Rita

Glen Rock Pool

Rita & Buddy Jaeger

Uncle John's Car

That was before I did the driveway

Jack Voshardt's Car

Uncle Tim and our Studebaker

First uniformed Crossing Guards in the US

Terry in a really weird picture

Somewhere in that wall is a Diamond ring Rita lost.

A visit from the Nisski's

Terry and Friends

John playing a Uke

Voshardt's backyard

Easter at the Jaeger's house

Nice sweater

Rita sleeping late

Mothballed fleet on the Hudson River after the war

Jack Voshardt, Slate, Evarts, Tony. We played a lot of cards, there was no TV

Just before we sailed

Pete Opperman and wife