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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Memories: 7 of 93

Greetings from a ghost town In late 1985 I had several field service calls to Fort Monmouth NJ. I noticed a sign that said something about Asbury Park while driving home. The next time I was up there my service call was cut short so when I was heading home I decided to take a little detour, east at that Asbury Park sign unti...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Loss of innocence: 7 of 16

Sometime around the late winter - spring of 1976, a group of us started hanging out on the back porch of the Knights of Columbus on the corner of Walnut lane and Houghton Street. It all started when walking back from the 7-11 you would cut through the yard at the "knights" and one day we just stopped and parked ourselves on ...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Childhood memories: 60 of 135

Mark! Stop running. Watch out for those steps. Don't go near that bar. I reluctantly slowed down and headed back towards the monkey bars where all the other kids were gathered. Big Mark on the other hand went running down the hill, jumped over the steps and started doing flips on the bar. Nobody ever told big Mark what to do...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Early childhood memories: 49 of 98

September 1964 I turned 3 years old and started nursery school at the Epiphany Lutheran Church on Livezey Lane. My mother had gotten a job there as a preschool teacher. I only remember one teacher and she was a little unpleasant. But what I remember the most is playing outside the nursery school. Since I was still a rambunct...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: CB radios: 1 of 1

My experience with CB radio starts in 1974 when I got my first set of real walkie-talkies. From my room I could hear people talking about being on interstate 76, which is the Schuylkill expressway. Most of the trucker talk was not interesting and no matter how much I yelled nobody ever heard me. Until one day when I heard so...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Early arcade video games: 1 of 1

It was sometime in 1976. My buddy's girlfriend told us the 7-11 where she worked was getting a new video game. They already had 2 pinball machines but were replacing one with a brand new game. We had already gotten tired of the pong machine that was in the pizza shop around the corner. Even after they replaced it with the 4 ...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: High school: 18 of 29

My Muse It was a Saturday afternoon in the spring of 1977. Jackie and I were in his basement messing around with his CB radio. We had a mobile antenna sticking out the window and were goofing on people we knew who couldn't figure out who we were because the power level was so low. While flipping through the channels I though...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Summer memories: 42 of 59

The Girl Who Fell From The Stars! It was a Saturday night in the summer of 1977. I found myself at the side of a pond, lying on a picnic table. It was late and a dark moonless night, and I was staring up at the stars. I had a couple of beers left in a 6-pack that was sitting under the spring fed waterfall. Wait a minute. I w...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Moments that change your life: 162 of 222

I almost became a priest! Towards the end of 7th grade we were told to start thinking about what high school we wanted to go to. It was the first time the idea of graduating grade school came up. We had people from Roman and Hallahan come in and talk about the schools. They said some schools filled up early so they recommend...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My first job: 22 of 27

February 1980, I was 18 and in college and had no money and decided that needed to change. I had noticed a Help Wanted sign in the window of the Roy Rodgers on City Line Avenueso I bit the bullet and went and filled out an application. The place was loaded with 16 and 17 year old kids working there. I got a job immediately b...