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Anyone remember?

Anyone remember "black tar beach" - baby oil and iodine - a chair and/or towel - 3 hours later - you had a better color than going to Orchard and/or Jones Beach.

Patti Chucka
Bronx

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Permalink Reply by Cynthia Flores on January 2, 2009 at 5:52pm: I loved Jones Beach. The waves were awsome. Me, 10/11 y.o., would run into the waves and get rolled back to the sand. Never was I scared of the undertow. I rolled with it. Now living in FL, 40 yrs. later, you can't get me in the water when the winds are hi. The undertow is so strong that it takes you out to sea. Forget about it. Maybe it's the same as Jones Beach's undertow, but what do you know about danger at that young age? And, it's the same ocean - the Atlantic. Pardon my ignorance, but are the waves still the same at Jones B? I've been gone since 1980. How's Orchard Beach? When I got older, I discovered that Orchard Beach was not an ocean but a bay - nasty as it was/still is?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Murgo on January 2, 2009 at 9:29pm: I remember, I also remember my Mother yelling "What did I tell you about going on the roof"
The good old days; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Bev Da Bronxbabe on March 22, 2009 at 1:30pm: And the clothes and towels hanging down from the clothesline that blew in your face from the wind atop tar beach.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Murgo on July 3, 2009 at 12:37pm: Your Mother always knew when you where on the roof, by the tar on your feet; or the bottom of your shoes, by the mark's on the floor when you came in to the house with that sun burn;
I never burned I jyst got dark. But She always knew when I was on the roof...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by John Murgo on July 6, 2009 at 4:00pm: Oh do I remember, I was on the roof one day and Joann came up with the baby oil and iodine, before we knew it, well I had better not go there.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by john terlizzi on July 27, 2009 at 2:44pm: YEAH I REMBER TAR BEACH WITH MY FATHER WITH THE HOSE,ANDD ME IN MY UNDERWEAR,IT WAS SO HOT YA CAN FRY A EGG ON THE STREET,REMEBER STICKBALL,SLAPBALL,PUNCHBALL ,HID AND GO SEEK WE MADE OUR OWN GAMES, OUT ALL DAY TILL DINNER .DONT THEY MAKE STICKBALL BATS AND SPALDING AND THE PINSY PINKIE BALLS ANYMORE? TAKE CARE JOHN TERLIZZI LITTLE EGG HARBOR NJ[FORMERLY QUEENS VILLAGE NY]; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by maria gentile on December 15, 2009 at 9:15am: i remember tar beach, living in a buiding. also remember baby oil and iodine. think the oil bake u and the iodine stain skin. lol. these kids today wouldnt know that. peace out patti. ttys.; ▶ Reply to This