1956

 

1957

Now we're getting somewhere

 

The price is now 2.5 Million

And it would be just a little bit longer

than Sept of 1958 before this appeared on

July 1st 1959

 

AND THEN ON
THE 4th Of July 1959 !!!!!!!!

50 Years after Fred Quimby built his "temporary" wood bridge for

Tangiers Manor

 

And some 10 million quarters later true to their word they took the toll booths down!

 

I remember our first senior class at Floyd (1960) holding a senior picnic at the then 10 month old park and if memory serves me well, three stooges er students that is... Ralph Perra, Paul Einfeldt & Roger Berg (a sophomore but tall for his age) dove off it!....Much to the dismay of high school principal Ed Orr (they really steamed his clams) who probably yelled a lot (Orr was very good at yelling) and gave them detention or something like that.

Perra, Einfeldt, Berg & Orr

One of my fondest memories of the parks early days was taking Helen Scuteri there in my boat the Little Chief....it was around 1961 , the pavillion was built and we got lost in the fog on the way back and wound up at Pattersquash Island

photo: T C Wilson Jr.

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