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And then the only thing I will ask you to do that's different than a normal conversation is just start for the sake of the tape by saying your name and maybe when you were born if you don't mind also. Not at all, I am Mary Beth Breslin and my birthday is July 4th, 1973. Oh very nice. Yes. Fireworks every year for your birthday? Every year and I remember that there were fireworks

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on my third birthday which was the bicentennial. Oh cool. Up at the, I think it was on 8th street on Ocean Drive like up in that direction and the fire trucks were all there of course and I remember being able to sit up in the cab of the fire truck and then let me blow the horn and you know they all, everyone made such a big deal out of the fact that it was my birthday. It's a

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great birthday to have if everyone remembers it. It's a wonderful birthday. That's really neat and that kind of, I mean to me it's like it's a small town feel too you know of kind of everybody coming together. Yeah it's nice. So were you born like right here at the hospital in Cape May Courthouse? Yep and Burdette. Were you too? Yeah. How about that? Yeah I was born in Burdette and I never

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really know if I, do you ever put that you were born in whatever town you were raised in because I was never sure do I put Cape May Courthouse or do I put Avalon. I never ever knew that so I used both and I think people my records out there might be shady. But yes I was born in Burdette and I just think it's that's the best credential for being a local

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you know it's like having been born at the hospital in Cape May Courthouse. Absolutely. And then where did you guys, where was your house? My parents built their house on the corner lot at 15th and Dune Drive and they built a Cape Cod so it looks very much like a year-round house not really a summer house and it was bigger than like one of the old-time kind of summer bungalow places.

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Cottage-y places. Yeah cottage. So people would say when I told them I was at 15th and Dune a lot of times people would say oh the year-round house. I mean yes and we had a yard and there really wasn't a lot of building around us. I think when I was very young and then as I grew up there was obviously much more building but when I was probably at least 10 before and maybe probably

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older before the two all the lots between 15th and 14th along Dune Drive were sold and developed so there was a little wooded area there where we used to kind of play around and lots of piles of dirt and sand and things that we would just scamper down and a lot of a lot of free space a lot of open space for us just to kind of run around and be kids in which was really nice.

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Now that house on 15th and Dune that is still the house your parents live in? Yes. Yes I have been there. Oh have you? Oh for the yeah the holiday parties and stuff at the library. Yeah that is the house that I was brought home to as a baby and that has been my folks house forever and yeah it's um and it's been there since 1972 so it predates me. Nice. I think I have heard

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I think I heard from Tara you have two siblings also. I do. I have a sister Megan who probably remembers far more than I will um about growing up here she she has um she has the memory of an elephant and uh she um is a year younger than I am so she was born in 74. Okay. And then I have a younger brother Joe or Joey as we used to call him and he is um about three and a half years younger

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than I am so he was born in late 76. Okay. And we all three yep grew up there together so we had each other to play with because there weren't there weren't a lot of other kids on the island growing up so that was a bit of a challenge but um. Do you remember any kids that you did that were here and that you guys did play with? Oh sure well the Campbells were on 17th street um

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Jason, Tag, and Zach and Jason was my year we were in kindergarten together and then he went to the public school and I went to um St. Joe's over in Sea Isle. So we used to play with the Campbell boys a lot just kind of running around they had a tree house so that was really cool they were on 16th street at the time and then eventually moved to 17th street so we used to run around them a

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little bit and then also um you know when I was very young because Jason and I were in kindergarten together and then when we were in grade school um well Joni Hohner and her sisters were her she had a couple older sisters but Joni was my year um she lived right over the 21st street bridge and Michelle Robinson and the Robinson girls Dr. Robinson is the dentist in town um so his

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he had three girls and Michelle was in my year as well and she also went to St. Joe's and um we were very close growing up so it was great because you know we could ride bikes to people's houses just you know to when I was little you could walk over to the Campbells and in the summers my cousins would be down they had a house on my aunt and uncle had a house on 21st street

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and um there were five of them so and three of us so it was kind of a big gathering whenever we were around but we would spend all day together in the summers they lived up in outside Philadelphia and so they would come down in the summers and spend all day with us we would either be at each other's houses in the morning and then break for lunch meet up again to be on the beach together

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in the afternoon come home have our showers have dinner and then after dinner back and forth to each other's houses again so our bikes got a lot of a lot we got a lot of use out of our bikes it's neat like as much as the town has changed and like we've been talking about that too but it's I mean what you are describing sounds very much like the day that people still have

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now you know like I guess the beach and the bikes and and yeah you know it's kind of neat when some things stay the same yeah that's true I guess yeah that's true I guess that's what people do uh when they're down here in the in the summers yeah you are mentioning going to school at Saint Joseph's that was that the high school that's the grade school over in Seattle so that has

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since closed it was it's been replaced by Bishop McHugh which is offshore okay but Saint Joseph's and Seattle was um the regional grade school so kids from Seattle and Avalon um and Dennis Township um went there okay um I mean there was a grade school in Avalon at the time there there was and I I went to kindergarten at the time Saint Joe's did not have kindergarten

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so I went to kindergarten which was um actually Stone Harbor and Avalon together had kindergarten but the schools at the time were still separate right so we actually I actually went to Stone Harbor school for kindergarten because that's where the the kindergarten classes were and there was a morning kindergarten and an afternoon kindergarten and I was in the morning kindergarten

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okay um and then after that I went to for first grade I went to the Catholic school over in in Seattle got it our bus driver was um Chuck Haynes who I think many old-timers in Avalon would remember okay um he was um I think a native and um long long long time resident and he um I think was in the volunteer fire department and he drove us kids over every day to um to Saint Joe's

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it was a lot of fun across the Townsend's inlet bridge which is I think a challenge on a school bus so yeah we're there I mean there are so many closures now of the Townsend's inlet bridge and we laugh because when we study the like very early history of Avalon when they when it was a railroad bridge it was closed all the time like was it like that I mean or was was it more reliable at that

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point it was well I it was either more reliable or we just didn't you didn't notice yeah because it was open all the time right I think I think too just I'm sure as uh as erosion has gotten worse over time it probably made it a little bit more precarious but at the at the time I mean we're talking about I mean when I was six it was I guess I started in Saint Joe's in 1978

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um until 87 so it's a long time ago so I guess yeah there's just maybe a little bit more beach over there right yeah things change all the time yeah but um you know mentioning about the school and like because I know your parents I know they're very active in the Catholic church yep you have memories of that from being a kid very much very much I have a lot of church memories um

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having been a Maristella parishioner for a long time and when we were kids there was a choir um that Mrs. Robinson the dentist's wife at the time she um was our director and taught us um many many songs and singing and breath work and all this so it felt you know it was really a special like she had been I think classically trained so we really

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we really looked up to her and enjoyed that a lot and had a lot of fun oh I should mention how did I forget the Quinn girls um because we were in choir together I was thinking of Michelle Robinson but Jenny Quinn and um and Christy Quinn and Shannon Quinn oh yeah they lived on 22nd street how could I have forgotten them um so the Quinn girls and Michelle Robinson and my sister and I um I mean

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the quince that I know are Mike and Cass is that their parents maybe Cass might be that they might because they're Catholic churchers too it could be a cousin or some kind of uncle thing um but Mr. Quinn Jim Quinn um before he passed away had been a cantor at Maristella and people remember him because he I think he did the 9 a.m Sunday I think he had a lovely voice and then his wife

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Ellen was um a longtime teacher at the the nursery school that used to be in like the um Methodist church okay room I don't know if anybody's anyway and then they had five kids Shannon, Christy, Jenny, Michael, and Carrie and Jenny was the year ahead of me in school and Christy was two years ahead Shannon was three years ahead so I played field hockey in high

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school with Shannon and then was in choir with Christy and Jenny and then there's anyway sorry if you're if you're editing if you're editing any of this can you put this part back in with the do you remember anybody growing up with anybody oh and I should there were just lots of there lots of folks there were the McCurdy boys that I should have mentioned they were a few years older

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of course the McGowan girls they were a few years older um uh oh the McFarland boys on 20th street like I don't know why I'm just it's okay like you know Avalon names it's a minute to get into the mindset and yeah no be remembering it accessing my memories yes um so anyway yeah so we did um so the queen girls and Michelle uh Robinson and my sister and I were on the choir together and

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um I'm sure I'm forgetting other people but yeah we did the choir with Mrs. Robinson and then and we would sing for like events the Christmas time and stuff um when they opened the what we called the big church at 50th street in June I think it was like 83 we sang for that when they had the big mass opening that and so you know there were things like that that we did and um so

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I was in I was involved with the church with that and then I cantered for a while um when I was like 12 13 14 in the summertime because we had so many more masses in the summertime so they had a real need for um for people to be involved and then so prior to 83 you would attend mass on the 25th at 25th street yep okay yeah what did you call it because I know there's like recently been a thing

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with the name and so forth and so I get confused like I'll say one and then I'll be like oh my god who am I talking to am I saying the right thing exactly right you're gonna like you feel like you're gonna offend someone I know that's why I didn't say it I was like I don't know what you call it it's the truth you gotta be careful with that well for me it was always the little church

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the little church yeah and that was yeah and that was where I was baptized and it was where I was had my first communion uh-huh and where I had my first penance and I had all like the sacraments there and I used to dream about getting married there and if I ever do get married it's where I want to be married that's awesome my sister got married in the big church in 1998 but no I don't

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care how many people I have to cut off the list but I think you could probably fit a lot of people in there but that would that to me is my church yeah like where I hope nothing ever happens to it but we'll see you never know I mean I would be shocked really if it's anything I think people love it yeah I think so too there's a strong connection there very much so we did like we

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did a history lecture there last summer I don't know if your mom told you oh yeah she did yeah yeah yeah I have tape of that oh do you I could shoot you an email yeah well offline we can talk about that too okay yeah no I heard it I heard it was good hers really good yeah so yeah so you said little church and big church

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okay and it was and now we are saying I think sacred heart or no maristella chapel we are saying and before we maybe said sacred heart church well I think yeah because I guess before it was a maristella parish and the folks who were maybe a generation or two before me my dad probably remember the little church itself was just a parish called I think sacred heart yeah I think

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that's what it was but for you know from at least 70 at least in my memory it was always part of maristella but and now that the little church then is it's having its 90th anniversary this year do you know that too there's like something planned we are like not super involved but we have been consulted a bit and I think they are doing like some kind of tribute to

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frederick michelle who is the one who left the money to build it oh great um and like an extra mass I think is planned to mirror like whatever the very first mass was I think it's like fourth of july weekend so it's just something to look out for awesome thank you I hope I'm here for fourth of july weekend because it is always a fun weekend to be here oh yes if you can navigate

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yeah right right yeah notice I said to be here and not to be out and about here right not to get here not to be and actually I am like I am rude I have not asked like where you're coming from or you know what what you're doing these days or where you landed kind of um I unfortunately don't live here anymore but I'm here pretty regularly

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um I visit my folks you know once a every four or six weeks I get my haircut here still I just love how it's a town and how you walk around and know people um you know I do really really like that and I just think we have a especially the people who are here in the winter I don't want to slag on the summer folk and the the folks who who spend their their summers with

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us and everything but there's just something really I think special about the people who I remember you know we're here for a long time um it's a really there's a different feeling yeah you know when when it's not the summer yeah every it is like a mayberry sort of everybody knows everybody and it's a you know yeah the feeling of of mutual support and community and

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I I don't I don't live here you know I just work here but I feel that way you know so I can only imagine yeah well there and there's just so much I think with the well there's so much happening with the library and the history center and there's just so much more to do and to so many more events and things I guess more people are here during the year than there used to be and

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there's so much more of a shoulder season than there ever was and then you know I'm sure that makes a big difference but um it's very different from when I grew up and we talk about how the library is very different because I used to spend a lot of time in the in the old library along free public library established so was that the one that was a 26th street yeah yeah what was

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that like it was really small so I used to oh I should probably go back and sorry you you asked where I am now and then I do talk about whatever I live in northern Maryland but I I commute down to Washington DC I I'm an attorney for the U.S. government for an independent agency there so that might out me as being a little bit of a nerd because I used to I did you spend a lot

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of time in the library on 26th street um reading and just researching I spent a lot of time in the reference room reading encyclopedias articles on whatever interested me that day and I did a lot of fiction reading and I knew Debbie Devitt who had worked there you know she I remember her working there when it was part of the county system but for me what would happen is we would

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get home from school from St. Joe's um and it might have been around around 2 50 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then I would ride my bike to 26th street and spend an hour and 15 minutes there before they closed um for the day so it used to close at 4 15 oh my gosh so that was probably really that was very frustrating yeah and now I feel so very jealous of all the kids

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who live here now because of the library's accessibility and I mean things are different too you have the internet now and you can go online and use the great databases that the library has and all the online materials that they have and everything which is wonderful and I appreciate so much that they make available to people who aren't here all the time so

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but anyway going going back to the library um you know it was in this old school building so it's kind of compartmentalized there were there was a kid's room there was like an adult fiction room and then there was like the bigger kind of reference room that had more the encyclopedias and also like the non-fiction things and so it's pretty small collection I think

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they were open on on Saturdays in the morning so I would sometimes go down and do that and if you ever had if I ever had a big project like when I got to high school you'd have to go over to the county library really for right for most anything so um over in courthouse and you were probably gone already not living in town when the library switched over yeah because I think that was

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like what was that oh four oh five maybe like two or three two or three so I yeah I graduated law school in 02 and moved to Washington um I was I lived in Arlington Virginia for about 12 years before I moved to Maryland um so yeah so it was you know my memory of the library in town until the new one was just the 26th street yeah and that might not have even been its initial

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its initial incarnation I just remember that was you know I don't think it was I feel that I have something on here let me see about finding out about the library when the library was in the back of the police station maybe was the thing before that so I am waiting for someone to remember that and tell me about it I wish that were I but no

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that's funny I can't imagine that yeah so I guess it's just continually improving and expanding right right so let me think what else I like usually people or sometimes will remember like what businesses were here that your family used um if any of them meant anything to you sure um the one I remember the most was the deli where I worked in the summer

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um there was a deli restaurant on 33rd street called max 33rd street deli it's where the pudgy pelican most recently was and my sister worked there one summer um before I did and then I worked there I think she might have worked there five or six summers I worked there whatever one less from that was and that was fantastic the um

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the McCarthy family there was a brother and a sister and their spouses that owned it together so it's a real they were and they were all involved in managing um the deli and so it felt very much like family and there would be um like groups of siblings that all like families would work there tend to be like I worked with um the oaks family who were

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there was like a brother and a sister that worked there every year the mayors were you know Michael mayor they were brother and sister they worked together so and my sister and I and then eventually my brother and um my cousin eventually worked there one summer one of the 21st street cousins so like you know you just very much felt like family and very much felt like a lot it was just

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it was a lot of fun we had a good time and there was a little they did breakfast and lunch and sandwiches for dinner and I worked as a hoagie maker and it was a lot of fun my sister was a waitress my brother cooked he was also a lifeguard my brother so I don't remember that he did um the deli for too long but right um but yeah he um yeah summertime jobs were a lot of

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fun I work I did um so so anyway and max 33rd street deli is was very very meaningful for us we're still somewhat in touch with the McCarthy's and you know on Facebook kind of thing so keep up with them they were from Philadelphia and had a house on I think 29th street or their their folks didn't so I think they came down in the summers often I didn't know them they were older so

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but that's their connection to Avalon and then Uncle Bill's has been around forever of course uh so feel feel a lot of attachment to that and the folks who work there now and I worked one summer at Sullivan's when I was first starting I was a waitress at Sullivan's I'm sure you've heard that name before absolutely I delivered my fair share of number two

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number two breakfast specials so and then um of course Donnelly's deli was um right on 21st street near the circle um very very fond memories of that and our um neighbors in the summer worked there so we would pop in and see them sometimes I do think I mean the the idea of like a summer job or like where did you work in the summer when

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you were a kid it like seems to be such a shared experience for people who grew up in the same I mean you know me too and yeah and my you know peers and everything it was it's just so ubiquitous and then like when I went away and met different kinds of people and whatever and I would talk about like where and many folks from other areas like just don't do that at all you know so it like

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it took me a minute to realize that that's kind of a special thing about um this place and I really think I learned so much you know so many of my professional skills and like my ability to like be in the world from like having worked a summer job you know and it just seems so important to me I to me too I couldn't agree more and I think I think too it helps having been in some kind of a

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service industry especially food service like it's just so much of a formative experience and learning how to deal with people and learning how to yeah how to take pride in your work and work hard and work long and do all of that that I feel like it's such a good experience for people to have now that I manage other people in my job yeah I'm always I'm always thinking about

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like wow I wonder if this person ever worked in the service industry or not I have a suspicion one way or the other no just kidding but um there was an um candy store on 8th street too which I wish I remembered what it was it was more like a little tiny general store but it seemed like it only had candy but at least that's what I remember mom and pop that might have been yeah

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right across from like the tennis courts I think so yeah so we would play at the fields a lot and um the tennis court the tennis court we there would be like tennis clinic like the recreation department had a lot of activities for kids I'm sure it's much more now but at the time they had like a tennis clinic for one or two weeks every summer I remember doing that down at the

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courts the the school had like computer programming or something on the old tandy right tandy was that the name of like really really old where like you basically learned very little things to I don't I don't even remember it wasn't anything like you know iphone apps and code everything yeah that's what I was looking for that yeah

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but um but yeah they had like a week or two in the summer where we would ride our bikes down to the school you know we ride our bikes to the tennis court we ride our bikes to the community hall you know they'd have stuff for kids there too they'd open gym and they even had open gym during the winter which was nice and I think they might have had not every year because there just aren't

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a lot of kids you know growing up year round here but they would have some events and stuff summers they always was more there would be aerobics my sister and I would go to the aerobics class it's funny because I don't know I think it just seemed like we maybe did things that are the kinds of experiences and activities and things that we did were

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things that obviously people of all ages would do so I remember being like you know we were obviously like the youngest people at the aerobics that they had oh but it was everyone it wasn't like kids aerobics it was yeah I mean there were kid events but then as we got older I should say there would be right you know just generally aerobics and of course the demographics

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here you would run into you know you would be like senior citizen type folks and then us yeah um we um when we did um the kids choir through church there was also a time when the um Maristella and the Methodist church would get together and do like ecumenical things together and like usually musical type concert or shows and it was the Methodist I

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think we're leading that but they opened it and said please join us and it became an ecumenical thing so um we got to meet more people around town that way and um with Mrs. Franklin on 16th street and so these would all be kind of retirees yeah and then us you know the kind of kids or teens yeah so it was it was fun that way like you just it was kind of I think a different

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type of childhood than kids where kids might have where you're in suburbia where there are a lot of other families and a lot of other people your age yes there are specifically you know certain age type age group events spend most of their time with with their peers and you like you have the opportunity to be with all all different sorts of people and I feel that too we're working here

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I have friends that are 85 years old and like who has that you know it's kind of cool I totally agree I think that's a really special thing about Avalon and um or the folks who have a long experience over time in Avalon I guess I should say um and I yeah I think it's I think it's I think it's neat and we always enjoyed we always enjoyed it we would run into the woman who played

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in the Daniel in the lion's den show that we did and I can't remember her name but I think of her as a Bendigo and you just would run into her around town and be like a Bendigo and I don't know how many she might have been 70 something at the time how many 70 something year old right women have kids running after them going a Bendigo a Bendigo right I don't know I don't

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think it happens many places although maybe it does no I think I agree with you I understand I really do um you know people like seem to have such a strong connection to the Avalon hotel the bongo room the Avalon pier like maybe that wasn't your jam and like I you know not that I would blame you but any kind of connection to those places um not so much because the bongo room closed right

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I think at the time that I would have been oh right you're born in 73 so yeah so there was a time when I was much true kind of a young teen when my friends were starting to go and I really wanted to go and dad sat me down he's like well I don't know yet I don't know yet you know and so I thought all right I can wait a few more years and then no so I do feel like I missed out because

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people do talk about the bongo room as being so much fun yeah and there is a lot of attachment a lot yeah but I'm sadly not I okay um was the pier still there I thought it came down in the 80s but maybe it was like not really in full swing yeah I don't think um I hung out there very much but I do remember the movie theater that was there because that's where I saw my first movie

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um what was it the jungle book okay I don't know if I was five or six maybe five so yeah I at least got a movie in there but that I think is the only time I ever recall really being there so I don't have a huge attachment to it but I did see my first movie there and I anything where there was like a center of entertainment or something to do was always

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something where I had a longing because you know it was tough pre-internet and um you know pre increased development where there really wasn't a lot to do here in the winter but you know I mean it's sort of flipped though because I think of that's how I explain the avalanche here when somebody doesn't know what it is I was like oh it was an entertainment center there was a movie

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theater a dance hall and there were shops and like everyone went there it was like the center of the social life and like that doesn't exist anymore yeah there's no like center of the social life in Avalon like a physical place no I mean as much as there is one I think it's the library it might be associated places but history center but yeah I think you're right I think there's something to

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that yeah and it probably doesn't exist much really in many towns anymore right yeah just with how things develop over time so so I won't steal you for too much longer let me look and see there was anything that we didn't cover any like yeah we did most of this any um very naturally like events like moments in time that you remember as important that you were here for at all

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um like you you mentioned the bicentennial you know like anything else like that no I have I remember the bicentennial I don't know that I remember many other things I mean personal events my sister's wedding um you know graduating high school and things that were you know events in my life but in terms of like historical

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here yeah exactly I'm like not it wasn't 9-11 didn't happen when I was living here um like any other kind of being I don't think so I don't think so okay well I do think what tends to happen when people do this is they like leave the building and get in their car and you're like driving along or you're like in the shower or something and you're like oh like I should have I forgot to

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talk about whatever so just know that if that happens you can call me and I can put you on speakerphone and add to your tape you know it won't be like a big deal I hope it doesn't happen too often but you're saying but I'm sure that just even thinking about it like even as we went along when I would remember more people's names but um yeah I will I'll just keep thinking about it and

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I'll talk to my sister too she like she remembers more stuff and she's one of the folks like you mentioned early on might say what do I have to say so if I don't know that she I don't know how she feels about um having this type of conversation but I know if I need my memory jogged I can ask her yeah right and so maybe I'll talk to her soon and see what else she remembers okay and then

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maybe I'll call you and add to it cool based on what she okay what she reminds me you know like tell her it's painless I will it is painless and a lot of fun