Yep. Home Plate was on Main Street, just a few blocks down from the bus station. Wasn't the Spencer's on the Black Horse Pike going into Atlantic City. How about Two Guys? If you were going into AC, Spencer's was on the left and Two Guys was on the right. Ruffu Ford is gone. In fact, we watched the fireworks on the 4th in their parking lot. Best seats in the house! Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginnie Carey" <[email protected]> To: "Linda Vible" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:12 PM Subject: RE: Pleasantville Wasn't the Home Plate in town Pleasantville? It has been a long time. I do remember the old Longport Bridge. Before the flood of 1984, I used to drive into AC for my job at the casino. I li ved in Ocean City. After the flood, I lost my car and started riding the good old bus! We had to go by way of the mainland, so it took an hour from beginning to end. Do you remember when Spencer Gifts had an office at the old A&P building in town? I worked there one season. Last time I was up there in 95, they had the cut over I guess you would call it for Searstown circle, but nothing on the second one. My hubby hated and feared them....he is from Michigan and they don't have them there. I went to Hamilton Mall that year too. Northfield has grown so much, I didn't recognize it. Time to get back to work. More later. I am really enjoying this. Ginnie -----Original Message----- From: Linda Vible [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 11:56 AM To: Ginnie Carey; [email protected] Subject: Re: Pleasantville Ginnie, My dad cooked for the Home Plate. We would sometimes visit him at work and that was when my love of coconut custard pie began. I remember the Halloween parade in those days and Dad would sit us in the front window to watch it. My little sister would freak when Dracula walked by. She had a fear of Dracula for many years. My mother didn't drive in those days, and we'd catch the bus at Shore Road and Central Avenue to the bus station. We'd shop at the grocery store and take a cab home. We sometimes visited the Salvation Army there on the corner, too. I was sneaking into Tony Mart's when I was 16. I can't stand that they built a night club in it's place after it shut down. Bay Shores had closed by the time I started bar scene. The Anchorage used to have 10 beers for a dollar. Besides the Melody Lounge, there were the bars in Margate. I can't remember their names. They were all on one block. Then there was Dunes till Dawn, previously known as Mother's, I think. And the Attic. Do you remember the old Longport bridge? You could only drive 20 miles an hour over it. I loved the Point Diner. They celebrated their 25th anniversary in 1974, I think. The owners sold the place a few years after I moved to Virginia. It was some time in the early 80s and it's not been the same. We could always go to the diner after Tony Marts closed. DiOrios is still there, the Crab Trap restaurant, and Circle Liquor are still thriving. The circles are disappearing. They removed the one that connected Tilton Road to Black Horse Pike and they removed the one at the Shore Mall. Atlantic City High is now on the Black Horse pike going into Atlantic City. The Hamilton Mall is nice. Shore Mall has Boscov's to keep it alive, but it's not the same. For as much as the area has changed, there's still so much that remains the same and that's nice, isn't it? Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginnie Carey" <[email protected]> To: "Linda Vible" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:51 PM Subject: RE: Pleasantville I was born in 1942 and lived in a 3 story house on New Rd, until my grandmother died when I was 5. Then I lived in Absecon. I finally moved to Northfield when I was 12, and graduated PHS in '60. I know where the Home Plate was, used to go to the soda fountain after school, and to the music store next door on Main St. We would walk down from school, then back to the busstation to head for home. Do you remember Ben's Bar-B-Que? I spent many hours in that place. Tony Mart's was my first 'legal' drinking place. (Went to the Melody Lounge in Atlantic City underage.) I have had nany meals at the Point Diner, the last in 1995. I have not been back since then - my mother passed away that summer. Since I moved here, Taylor Pork Roll and Sweitzel's Spiced Wafers have followed me. Still can't find a decent cheese steak though. Ginnie in Fla. -----Original Message----- From: Linda Vible [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 12:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Pleasantville Hi, Ginny. It seems we have been in the same places. How long ago did you live in Pleasantville? Do you remember the Home Plate Restaurant? That would be going back about 35 years. My mother had a friend who lived in Pleasantville, and as a child, we used to go crabbing in the bay. I think it was at the end of Oakland Avenue. In fact, my parents lived in Pleasantville when I was born. They lived on Park Avenue behind the Fire Department. Pleasantville has really become run down. It's too bad. I think the casinos have a lot to do with it. A lot of people are commuting to work from further away, like Mays Landing. Have you been back to the area recently? Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginnie Carey" <[email protected]> To: "Linda Vible" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: RE: [NJ-Memories] Introduction: New to Group Linda, I must introduce myself, since it seems we have walked the same walk and been to the same places. I am Virginia (Ginnie) Van Kirk Carey. I too was born in Shore Memorial Hospital. I lived in Pleasantville, Absecon and Northfield, and graduated P'ville High School. I left the area for a few years - to Burlington Co with my father. I returned to the AC area in 1979, worked awhile for the Police Dept, then for Resorts and Tropicana. I lived in Ocean City. I was there for the blizzard of '83, and the flood in OC in May (lost my car.) After that, I had had enough and moved to Florida in August. I would love to compare notes on the area with you. Ginnie in Fla