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The Rockaway I Knew, By Matt Bashie
  Introduction
 

Chapter One: I Move In

  Chapter Two: Our New Neighbors
  Chapter Three: My First Job
  Chapter Four: Exploring My Surroundings
  Chapter Five: The Three Beaches
  Chapter Six: My First Television Set
  Chapter Seven: My New Best Friend
  Chapter Eight: The Toy I Just Had to Have
  Chapter Nine: How to Eat for Fifty Cents a Day
  Chapter Ten: Time to Redecorate!
  Chapter Eleven: Baseball Cards & Soda Cans
  Chapter Twelve: The Isolation Booth
  Chapter Thirteen: Take the Bus and Leave the Driving to Russ
  Chapter Fourteen: Just a Son of the Beach
  Chapter Fifteen: My Father the Car Wrecker
  Chapter Sixteen: Fire! A Rockaway Tradition
  Chapter Seventeen: A Trip to Hell and Back
  Chapter Eighteen: Trouble in Elementary School
  Chapter Nineteen: Horseshoe Crabs and Dead Bodies
Letters From Our Readers
  Ben Budick, August 10, 2010
  Ken Bender, August 8, 2010
  Ed Janon, August 7, 2010
  Kathi Dolan Schwan, August 7, 2010
  Gordon Freed, August 6, 2010
  Cindy Lefkof Feeney, August 1, 2010
  Matt Carlson, July 16, 2010
  Bud Wertheim, July 10, 2010
  Roz, Cohn, July 10, 2010
  Joel Norman, July 10, 2010
  Sid Leiman, June, 29, 2010
  Ben Budick, June 27, 2010
  Jackie Singer, June 20, 2010
  Ben Budick, May 31, 2010
  Jeff Belluck, May 30, 2010
  Lauren Given, May 10, 2010
  Barbara Schor, May 10, 2010
  Jackie Singer, May 10, 2010
  Ann Tutundjian, May 9, 2010
  Sid Baumgarten, April 28, 2010
  Ben Budick, April 24, 2010
  Don Wansor, April 23, 2010
  Carol Marston, April, 21, 2010
  Laurence Wides, April 19, 2010
  Sharon Goldin, April 7, 2010
  Peter Berlin, April 3, 2010
  Lucille Rella, April 3, 2010
  Sandy Gold, April 3, 2010
  Howard Goldfinger, April 3, 2010
  Helen Gavender Bachman, March 28, 2010
  Dean Georges, March 26, 2010
  Lauren Prater Given, March 4, 2010
  Susan Wilsker Brownstein, February 10, 2010
  Bud Wertheim, February 10, 2010
  Elissa Morgenstern Dellosso, February 6, 2010
  Judy Garland Comments, January 15, 2010
  Rita Deutsch Herring, January 13, 2010
  Alan Steinberg, January 11, 2010
  Ellen Cohn Levy, January 10, 2010
  Alice Carrasquillo, January 2, 2010
  Andy Hertz, December 22, 2009
  Carole Marcus, December 21, 2009
  Rosemary Cohen Curtiss, December 15, 2009
  Larry Moshan, December 9, 2009
  Irene Steinberg Shapiro, December 9, 2009
  Richard Herbst, December 7, 2009
  Al Bindman, December 4, 2009
  Gary Siegel, November 24, 2009
  Allan Bline, November 19, 2009
  Melissa Maroff, November 6, 2009
  Dori Cohen, November 6, 2009
  Helen MacMartin-Trent, October 21, 2009
  Steve Slomiak, October 9, 2009
  Chuck Schacher, September 24, 2009
  Shirley Evans, September 12, 2009
  Tom Flynn, September 6, 2009
Helen Georges, August 28, 2009
  Ellen de Gail, August 18, 2009
  Barry Furr, August 9, 2009
  Carol Waxman Cohen, August 4, 2009
 

Matt Carlson, July 21, 2009

Articles by Stevie S. Stevens (listed in chronological order with most recent on top)
  The Mystery of the Vanishing Landmark
  Random Thoughts on Edgemere
  Wavecrest Gardens, A City Within A City
  The Academy Avenue School
  Mott Avenue Then and Now
  Some Historical Buildings on Mott Avenue
  Wides Motors
  This is Cinerama
  Arverne at the Turn of the Century
  Patrolling the Rockaway Peninsula
  Legends of the Rockaways - Tent Colonies
  Our Wonderful Edgemere Bungalow
  The Far Rockaway Train Station - Then and Now
  Berger's Restaurant - A Far Rockaway Tradition
  A Landmark Intersection - Central and Mott Avenues
  Central Avenue - Then and Now
  Edgemere Club Hotel - The Picture That Does Not Exist
  What Happened to the Rockaways
  Rockaway After the Summer Rush
  Bull at Rockaway Beach
  Never the Train Shall Meet - LIRR and the NYC Subway
  A Letter to Elsie
  The Grand Hotels of the Old Rockaways
  Changing of the Guard, Principal David Gordon Retires
  Skee-Ball Amusements
  Timetable to an Adventure in Rockaway Beach
  Directing Traffic, Strand Theater
  R-DAY - Rockaway Here We Come!
  Dateline: June 28, 1956 - NYC Subway Service Now Extends into Rockaway Beach
  Rockaway Beach Advertising Card
  Advertising Card Samples
  Sanford Ellsworth, first principal of FRHS, and the NRA Plaque
Articles by Ira Ellenthal (listed in chronological order with most recent on top)
  His Kids Got Rockaway Air, Dad Got a Longer Commute
  Is There Such a Thing As Rockaway Innocence?
  50 Years Later, I Still Savor Rockaway’s Hometown Flavor
  Ira Ellenthal's Bio

 

Roche's Beach Club by Ken Bender

Three Notable FRHS Alumni by Marty Nislick

The Reckouwacky Girls by Ann Tutunjian (reprinted from the Wave)

The Recording Booth by Allan Bline

Trembling Before Khrushchev by Stanley Raffes

Breathless in Rockaway by Stanley Raffes

Searching For the Rockaway Museum by Marty Nislick

The Rockaway Fire of 1892, article courtesy of Ed Gloeggler

Three Rockaway Songs by Ed Berlin

Collecting Trading Cards by Matt Bashie

Remembering P.S. 215

The Budick - Bashie Dialogues by Matt Bashie

Crime in our Schools - Exclusive Interview with FRHS Teacher, April 10, 2009

Crime in our Schools - Daily News Article, June 7, 1985

Television - From the June 1948 Dolphin Yearbook