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A Boy, His Life, and Growing up in Glen Rock, New Jersey from 1945 A Boy, His Life, And Growing Up In Glen Rock, New Jersey From 1945 to 1963 by David A. Lamken A compilation of breezy, not literary, e-mails written to the Class of 1963 over a twenty-one year period ending in 2018. Introduction – My childhood hometown is Glen Rock, New Jersey, and is situated 22 miles northwest of New York City’s Time Square. It covers 2.7 square miles and lies in the foothills of the Goffle Mountains. Glen Rock is home to a community of about 10,000 people (or at least it was when I resided there). The Borough of Glen Rock consists of a wonderful, two-block long downtown area with two other smaller shopping venues located at its outer borders, three elementary schools, a Catholic school, and a junior-senior high school. There were no school buses back then and everyone walked to school and no one seemed to mind. There are also parks, playgrounds, a wonderful brook, and even a community pool in which we all fully occupied ourselves. Although I have not lived there for the last 45 years, I have been writing my classmates and relating to them what I remember about my childhood experiences. In no discernable order, I have tried to recall the various youthful activities I was engaged in from my pre-school years through high school, and though most of the experiences I write about pertain only to me, they could just as well have happened to anyone my age who lived in Glen Rock during that same time period of 1945 to 1963. While there are a few personal photos in one section of this tome, the rest of this collection of e-mails is in narrative form because I was not able to print out the crystal clear mental pictures I have of my adventurous youth. All in all, through the eyes of someone who was raised there, Glen Rock was a very ideal place to live - as I hope you will soon see. 2 - Table of Contents - 1. Introduction 2 2. Glen Rock Pool 9 3. Reunion 13 4. Life's a Beach 16 5. A Boy and His Bike 19 6. Mechanical Drawing 21 7. Secret Agent Man 22 8. Reunion Buddy 25 9. Carols 26 10. Krause - Math 29 11. Square Dancing 31 12. Dances - School and Elsewhere 34 13. Winter 37 14. Bits and Pieces - 20 Questions 40 15. Carrying Books 42 16. New York 44 17. United Nations 48 18. 7th Grade 51 19. Cattle Call 53 20. Fairleigh 57 21. Bike Hike 60 22. Footloose Activities 64 23. EMOC 67 24. Childhood Games 70 25. Two Teachers 72 26. Another 1st Grade Field Trip 74 27. Star Wars 77 28. Gym Floors and More 79 29. Tar Bubbles 83 30. Glen Rock Sports 85 31. Thank You For Writing, Hugh 87 32. A Treat 89 3 33. Cruising 91 34. One Boy's Point of View 96 35. A Clean Sweep 99 36. A Boy and a Brook 102 37. Diamond Brook Revisited 105 38. Diamond Brook - One Last Time 108 39. Landfills 110 40. First Year in School 112 41. Reunion 115 42. Sixth to Seventh 117 43. The Eyes Have It 119 44. Shopping 121 45. Two of My Favorite Glen Rock Activities 125 46. A Questions of Buttons 128 47. A Rite of Passage 131 48. Skiing 135 49. Different 138 50. A Special Room 142 51. Bill Daley 145 52. A Few Little Things 147 53. A Penny For Your Thoughts 151 54. Dad 154 55. The Little Things 158 56. To Speak or Not to Speak 160 57. I Scream 164 58. Custard's Last Stand 167 59. LB 169 60. Be Home by Dinner! 171 61. Getting to Look a Lot Like Christmas 176 62. Perpetually Impaired Heaven 177 63. Hey, Batta, Batta, Batta 181 64. Simply Dating 186 65. An Affair to Remember 191 66. Smoking Weed 199 67. What Made Me - Me? 202 4 68. Be Prepared 207 69. Nowhere, But Somewhere 212 70. End of an Era 216 71. The Mane Attraction 219 72. Off Topic 224 73. To Pet or Not to Pet 227 74. Who Would Believe It 233 75. The Silliest of Things 235 76. That First Uncertain Moment in Time 238 77. Front Door Kiss Follow-up 242 78. The Rock in the Glen and its Stores 245 79. The Gravity of the Situation 250 80. Just a Second 253 81. Beaten to a Pulp 255 82. My Building Blocks of Life 259 83. A Kodak Moment 262 84. Social Security 265 85. Social Security Follow-up 268 86. Uniformity 270 87. Uniformity Reply 273 88. Was that a Drag, or What? 274 89. Sweet Dreams 280 90. A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock and Roll 282 91. A Cut Above 286 92. Look! Up on the Screen! It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Another Story! 290 93. Times Have Changed 293 94. It's About Time 295 95. If Only, If Only 298 96. The Big Picture 301 97. A Dinner and a Movie 305 98. With Room to Spare 308 99. A Pressing Matter 311 100. Permanently Impressed 314 101. No Left Turn 316 5 102. No Left Turn - Revisited 319 103. Were We All Quizzical Kids? 321 104. Making Sense of Nonsense 324 105. The Games of the Ages 327 106. Who Wrote the Book of Love? 329 107. Sock Hop 332 108. Sock Hop Response 2 335 109. American Made 337 110. A Tender Moment in Time 340 111. The Hot and Cold of It 342 112. A Foregone Conclusion 345 113. A Foregone Conclusion - Part 2 346 114. No Mystery About It 348 115. What was the Tallest Building in Glen Rock? 351 116. The Luck of the Arrow 354 117. Bull's Eye 357 118. Oh, What a Beautiful Day 360 119. The Time Of My Life 362 120. Off the Beaten Track 365 121. I Hear the Train A Comin' 368 122. A Stroll Down Memory Lane 369 123. The Meaning of the Word Grand 372 124. One Grand and Stroller Follow-Up 374 125. The Grandest of Follow-Ups 376 126. Remote Possibilities 377 127. Remote Possibilities Answered 381 128. Happy Holidays 383 129. Cold As Ice 386 130. Pass or Fail 390 131. Replies to ‘Pass or Fail’ 393 132. Keys to the Castle 395 133. The Unlocked Castle 397 134. I Remember Mama 399 135. Mama Replies 401 136. A Slacker 403 6 137. A High School Minute 406 138. And Now A Word From Our Sponsor 409 139. And Now A Word From Our Classmates 412 140. Once Upon A Time 415 141. Twice Upon A Time 418 142. How Quick Is Quick? 421 143. A Reel Memory 423 144. How Things Change 425 145. How Things Change – Follow-up 427 146. To Pet or Not to Pet 430 147. A Walk Up Memory Lane 433 148. A Senior Moment 437 149. Kitchen Encounters 440 150. Ether Or 443 151. Were You Ever Mellow in a Marsh? 445 152. I Only Wish 447 153. The Need to Feel Safe and Secure 449 154. Then and Now 451 155. The Cornerstone of Life 452 156. Reunionitis 455 157. Reunion Address 457 158. Nickel and Dime 459 159. A Stamp of Approval 462 160. Pecking Order 464 161. If The Shoe Fits 467 162. Trick or Treat 469 163. Trick or Treat Follow-Up 473 164. Follow-Up to the ‘Trick or Treat Follow-up’ 476 165. Catch a Fallin’ Star 478 166. Know When to Hold ‘Em 481 167. Catch a Star and Hold ‘Em Follow-ups 484 168. A Little Help Here 487 169. Shimmy and Shake 490 170. Shimmy and Shake Follow-up 494 171. Sex in Our Youth 495 7 172. Sex in Our Youth – part 2 499 173. Knock, Knock 502 174. Know, Knock follow-up 504 175. How Times Have Changed 506 176. Because I Said So 508 177. Life’s Not Fair 510 178. Father’s Day 513 179. Freebies 514 180. Freebies Update 516 181. Past, Present, Perfect? 517 182. Past, Present, Perfect? – Follow-up 519 183. Cloak and Daggers 520 184. Puzzling Outcome 523 185. And A Half 525 186. Electrically Charged 526 187. Re-born 528 188. Re-born Again 529 189. Can and Can’t 531 190. The Way Things Were 533 191. A Friend I Never Really Knew 535 192. One of the Greatest Guys 537 193. The Guy I knew as Ted 540 194. A Thought or Two 542 195. The Square Root of Nothing 544 195. Out and About 546 196. Ah-ooo-gah 550 197. Coincidence or Fate 552 198. Let’s Get This Party Started 555 199. A Means of Transportation 557 200. Another Day, or Two, or Three 559 8 Glen Rock Pool - What were you doing in 1951when you were six years old? Learning to go to school on your own - probably. Learning to keep up with others on your two-wheeler - more than likely. Learning to swim - I sure hope so! The year the community pool opened, 1951, and all the ensuing fun years after its dedication, has to go down as the longest running and most pleasant of my summertime memories. Sure - there were vacations, camp, and other summer activities (like playing sandlot baseball at a neighbor's house), but the pool was the best because it was a constant in my life.
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