I read your article about Roches and Ostend. But, you did not write anything about the easternmost of the private beaches, the Seabreeze Beach Club, at the foot of Beach.13th. St. We lived near there on Frisco Ave. between Beach 12th and 13th Streets. My family also had a locker there in the late forties and early fifties. We used to sneak into the Ostend, and the Shore Club, to swim in the pool and play ping pong upstairs. Attached find a photo of my brother and me, from the forties, taken at the Seabreeze.

Chuck Schacher FRHS Class of January 1953

P.S. Last night, as a result of going thru my old photos, I had dreams of old Rockaway, lots of stuff from the thirties and forties, and I was thinking of writing a sort of disjointed essay outlining some of those memories.

I dreamt about V.E.day (among other things,) when a bunch of us kids from Frisco Ave. went around town in the back of my uncles truck beating on pots and pans. We chose up sides for baseball games in the empty lot between Beach 12th and Beach 9th streets, and played kick the can on Frisco Ave. When I was older I set pins at the Arcade Bowling Alley (Dapper Dan's pool room) played poker on a beach blanket at Beach 27th, worked at Faber's Pokeroll between Beach 34th and 35th, danced on the boardwalk to the jukebox in front of Al & Macs Bar on Beach 36th, cut school and hung out at the luncheonette on Beach 25th and the El, and ran when Mr. Tietze came looking for us.

To view a very special album containing more extraordinary and historic photos that Chuck sent us of Far Rockaway click here