A user of our website posted this question. Can any of you help?
I lived in Pine Lake Park (Toms River zip now, I guess) during the 1950's.
I went to school in Manchester Township at Whiting Elementary School. I
want to visit and see where I use to live, but I don't know if Pine Lake
Park exists anymore, and if so what it is called now. I called Tourism, but
they couldn't help me. On one map, I found it and others not seen. Can you
help me locate it? I remember they were always dredging the lake once every
one or two years. I use to walk with my mother down in the dried lake and
always glad to get back on shore. There was an old grape farm and a sandy
site where the sand was yellow and white, used to sink to my ankles in it as
I came down the hill. There was a swampy area with quick sand because the
one road was a dead end as use to be an old model A factory which sank under
the sand. I use to like to talk to the old hermit who use to work at it,,
he seemed so old then. There was housing where the Air Force personnel use
to live (rented). I use to babysit for a family and I was only 9 yrs old at
the time. There was a family who lived in a log cabin style 2 storied home
by the last name of Helms.
There was a war memorial to all veterans which my girlfriends and I use to
play on, it was badly kept at the time and years later I read of the
restoration of it and was glad. We use to have milk delivered by the Lomar
dairy as my father rented our home from him as well as worked for him. The
year we moved to NY (summer of 1959), they were building the new high school
I would have graduated from, but not sure what it was going to be called. I
looked for high schools in the area, but the history on them does not give
year they were built. If you are unable to reach me at this email address,
please send response to deforestsharon@hotmail.com Thank you for any
help.
Robert Blanda
Founder
Pine Barrens Enthusiasts
info@eblanda.com
www.eblanda.com
I lived in Pine Lake Park (Toms River zip now, I guess) during the 1950's.
I went to school in Manchester Township at Whiting Elementary School. I
want to visit and see where I use to live, but I don't know if Pine Lake
Park exists anymore, and if so what it is called now. I called Tourism, but
they couldn't help me. On one map, I found it and others not seen. Can you
help me locate it? I remember they were always dredging the lake once every
one or two years. I use to walk with my mother down in the dried lake and
always glad to get back on shore. There was an old grape farm and a sandy
site where the sand was yellow and white, used to sink to my ankles in it as
I came down the hill. There was a swampy area with quick sand because the
one road was a dead end as use to be an old model A factory which sank under
the sand. I use to like to talk to the old hermit who use to work at it,,
he seemed so old then. There was housing where the Air Force personnel use
to live (rented). I use to babysit for a family and I was only 9 yrs old at
the time. There was a family who lived in a log cabin style 2 storied home
by the last name of Helms.
There was a war memorial to all veterans which my girlfriends and I use to
play on, it was badly kept at the time and years later I read of the
restoration of it and was glad. We use to have milk delivered by the Lomar
dairy as my father rented our home from him as well as worked for him. The
year we moved to NY (summer of 1959), they were building the new high school
I would have graduated from, but not sure what it was going to be called. I
looked for high schools in the area, but the history on them does not give
year they were built. If you are unable to reach me at this email address,
please send response to deforestsharon@hotmail.com Thank you for any
help.
Robert Blanda
Founder
Pine Barrens Enthusiasts
info@eblanda.com
www.eblanda.com
