Stone Harbor: The Past Revisited 1989 75th Anniversary

Copy of the VHS tape prepared for Stone Harbor's (NJ) 75th Anniversary in 1989. Includes a short history including pictures of early Stone Harbor and concludes with home movies from the '30s, '40s, '50s, and '60s.

[@jjmont61]

I've had the good fortune, by virtue of my step-grandfather, to have had the opportunity to go spend weeks or months down there on 109th Street from 1965-1985.
It was a magical place - Little Jack's for ice cream ... the original Clark's with the cold air conditioning, brown linoleum floor and big old fashioned cash register where dad used to send us to buy cigars...Hoy's with all the stuff you needed for a day at the beach...the Hunt's Park and Harbor Theaters where I worked for a summer or so.. the old Shelter Haven ....Fred's Tavern (which used to smell like pine-sol in the bar room.) I remember the crappy building next to Clark's where Tridi Jo's, the coin-op laundry and macrame-sand candle hippie shop used to be. Even had a library card....
Then there was Stone Harbor Point, or the "long beach." Once those houses went in around 121st. street, it began to wash away. Wonder where they got the fill sand for those lots or what coastal dynamic changed as a result of the development?
Now it is a province of people with too much money and too little sense. The library is a grand empty space. The magic places are gone.

[@markpratte7806]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for this wonderful video. You brought much happiness and joy of tears to me. My family, the Dorrell 's arrived I believe in 1955 and my father ran Stone Harbor Pharmacy at 9501 3rd ave. until around 1962 when a fire ruined the store. Unfortunately my father sold out and we moved on but I do recall a lot of Stone Harbor and the run of the town I had as a small boy. I was very close to Robbie Fitzpatrick....Jack and Pats oldest son. They ran the ice cream parlor across the street. Robbie and I were in a couple of those baby parades and this video even shown a couple of my uncles in the parade. What mischief Robbie and I got into. I will always have fond memories of that time and I do remember the loss, much to soon, of Pat ,who was to me like a second mother. I hope one day to return to Stone Harbor to have a look at the town even though it has changed so much since 1962. Thanks again.

[@cathcartww]

Stop by the Stone Harbor Museum (94th Street and Second Avenue) - there is probably a lot of stuff there to interest you. Also look for the Museums channel on here and their Facebook page.

[@lindajayneclark767]

music is way too loud. cannot hear commentary. Please edit!!! and repost :)