Dear Folks, Nona Goodrich sent me the following URL regarding the old Crystal Beach amusement park in Canada across Lake Erie from Buffalo and I just had to share it with the list in the event that you might have experienced it yourselves. http://www.pbase.com/kjosker/crystal_beach&page=all The pictures brought back memories of my own but my memories weren't as a young child, they were more of when I was around 16 years old and staying with my high school sorority girls in a cottage at Crystal Beach that summer of 1948. Although I certainly remember the midway and all of the rides that were there, most of my memories centered around the memories of the high school fraternity boys who "pestered" us (bless their hearts!), dancing in the ballroom and trying to look sexy in our bathing suits on the beach. Several years later in the mid 50s, I had a couple of dates who took me back to Crystal Beach and we danced away to Harry James' orchestra, and to Sauter and Finnegan, the popular band at the time, who played the "Doodletown Fifers." I could name my date's names but as far as I know they're either happily married and/or deceased by now! Do you remember Crystal Beach? vee

Vee, I do so envy those of you who are old enough to have danced to the sound of the "Big Bands" live. I love the big band sound, probably because we had so many records of it when I was young. Do you remember the brown cardboard records that were made during the war. If you didn't keep them under something heavy the curled up. We used to have some but I think they all got thrown away as I can't seem to find any now. Ruth At 11:32 PM -0500 4/3/04, Vee L. Housman wrote: >Dear Folks, > >Nona Goodrich sent me the following URL regarding the old Crystal Beach >amusement park in Canada across Lake Erie from Buffalo and I just had to >share it with the list in the event that you might have experienced it >yourselves. http://www.pbase.com/kjosker/crystal_beach&page=all > >The pictures brought back memories of my own but my memories weren't as a >young child, they were more of when I was around 16 years old and staying >with my high school sorority girls in a cottage at Crystal Beach that summer >of 1948. Although I certainly remember the midway and all of the rides that >were there, most of my memories centered around the memories of the high >school fraternity boys who "pestered" us (bless their hearts!), dancing in >the ballroom and trying to look sexy in our bathing suits on the beach. > >Several years later in the mid 50s, I had a couple of dates who took me back >to Crystal Beach and we danced away to Harry James' orchestra, and to Sauter >and Finnegan, the popular band at the time, who played the "Doodletown >Fifers." I could name my date's names but as far as I know they're either >happily married and/or deceased by now! > >Do you remember Crystal Beach? >vee -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT

Ruth asked, Do you remember the brown > cardboard records that were made during the war. If you didn't keep them > under something heavy the curled up. We used to have some but I think they > all got thrown away as I can't seem to find any now. Ruth, you really got me there. I can't even think of what sort of phonograph records would have been made out of something so flimsy. All of the ones that I collected as a kid during WWII were of the highly breakable pre-vinyl days. The only ones that I can recall that might have been of a flimsier variety were those that were personally recorded in a recording booth to send to your family and/or loved one. And I believe that was in the early 1950s. vee