Summer sunning in Rumson with the Slocum family. Photo/courtesy of Jo Ann Slocum Mazzucca
Back in the day, Rumson summers weren’t all about going to the beach club from dawn ’til dusk.
For some, it was as simple skipping the packing up of the family, not to mention the cost, and just laying a blanket out on the lawn and catching some rays while the kids played.
You’ll see him around the towns. Rumson-Fair Haven Retrospect (R-FH Retro) has a new intern and he’s on the Rumson-Fair Haven area beat and ready to help out and get the towns covered a bit more. David is eager to capture hyperlocal news, fun scenes around the towns, a little history and events.
Leave Lola and the Devil out of it. Whatever RFHers want, RFHers get …
And, back in the summer of ’75, they wanted summer stock theater. And they got it — a brutally fun load of it crammed into five dramatic dancing, singing, acting weeks among RFHers.
A Rumson side view of the Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge, with finished new gate house, under construction Photo/David Vilacoba
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement activity is on its status quo schedule this week, with work continuing daily from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through through Friday, weather permitting. Specific construction projects for the week are listed below the travel advisory information.
It’s the balloons. Yeah, the balloons are the dangerous party tools, not the girls. Yet, while it’s doubtful that anyone would call these “innocents” of the ’70s tools, it’s a sure bet that the combination of RFH girls could be dangerous — dangerously fun, that is.
Ahoy! Ship Ahoy, to locals beaching it back in the summer of ’63, that is.
Yes, it’s a locals’ summertime. Always has been. And the locals’ summer spots have always been a place of respite from the out-of-towner beach crowd in the Rumson-Fair Haven area. They call them beach clubs.
Happy campers at the Fair Haven campout in 2013 Photo/Elaine Van Develde
Fair Haven’s annual borough-wide campout may no longer be a summertime easy, sticky living event, but a first is always a warm memory. This one, back in 2013, was that first.
The summer’s Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge replacement construction is on a status quo schedule again. Work is scheduled for the usual 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. through Friday, weather permitting. Specific construction activities scheduled for the week are listed below the travel advisory information.
You must be logged in to post a comment.