Hey, Mr. Tamborine kid, play a song for us!
It wasn’t all about the guitar strumming, singing and parading on patriotic holidays only.
Retro Fair Haven Folk Singers’ Patriotic Beat
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Retro RFH Boys’ Summer Dive
Photo/RFH Class of ’79 reunion slideshow Paul Hughes
Summer reprise originally posted in the summer of 2015, just because … What’s summer without some crazy RFH guys and a dive?
Swim, anyone? Waterless ballet? More like whatever works in a cement pond without the water. And this bunch of RFH guys made it work.
Retro Patriotic Peace Pals
Photo /courtesy of Karen Allas
A red-white-and-blue patriotic reprise, just because July 4th is tomorrow …
Peace out. Patriotism. Well-played play date, kids. They were not crooks and they were no Richard Nixon wannabes. But they were at least budding impersonators. Perhaps. Or just era-inspired posers.
Retro Rumson Beach Boys’ Stand-Off
Photo/ courtesy of Cindy Crowley
A reprise in honor of those “just beachy” days of summer … Here’s to summer days in Sea Bright!
Call them the 60s beach boys of Rumson. They were … from Rumson and on the beach. Boys on the beach. Yeah, that’s it.
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Retro Rumson Diva Dive
Photo/Ken Card courtesy of Alice Mansfield
Dive in! Sign of the times? The “No Diving” signs are all over the docks. Well, at least the one that’s left in Fair Haven. Yet, a good dive has been known to transcend times and signs.
Getting the Clear Retro RFH Graduation Picture
Sometimes those ’70s RFH graduation memories are not all a blur. They’re crystal clear. In focus. Like this Pomp and Circumstance walk snapshot back in time.
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Retro RFH Graduation Blur
It’s all a blur. That’s how some RFH grads of 46 years ago, more and even less feel about their graduation day.
A Little Retro ’70s Fair Haven Graduating Class
Photo/Jill Sorrentino
Graduation time is near. It’s a time when Fair Haven eighth graders walk that graduation walk and that symbolic trek down Third Street. It’s their last — an ode to elementary school.
Retro RFHers’ Great Summer Adventure
Photo/Marc Edelman
A reprise in honor of these summer days and close encounters among RFH friends …
When summer hits in the Rumson-Fair Haven area, teens tend to flock to the Sea Bright beach clubs … the river … the public beach (yes) … Donovan’s … or they hit the road and set out for a great adventure, albeit a sweaty one on some long lines to a big ride, a log flume, a dip in a crowded wading pool or something else that veers away, like a preppy style train wreck, from the R-FH area summer norm.
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Retro RFH Beach Boys
Photo/courtesy of Paul Hughes
A reprise from June of 2016 in honor of summer days in Sea Bright …
Well, the weather has been mighty fine for the official start of summer and Sea Bright beaches are swarming with RFHers.
Retro Rumson Kids’ Beach Daze at ‘P’ House
Photo/courtesy of Cindy Crowley
Oh, it’s unofficial summertime. And Rumson-Fair Haven area folks have been soaking up the positive beaching it vibes and renewal of close encounters with their days at the beach and clubbing it, as they do.
Retro Rumson Cheers from Frank’s
Cheers to Friday, a Rumson icon and his iconic River Road spot!
That would be Tony Mellaci and his father’s bar, Frank’s. The door was always open at the place, welcoming Rumson friends for a cold one, a Mellaci sausage sandwich, a little camaraderie and good conversation among locals. The senior Mellaci, Frank, owned it and ran it with his son, Tony. The proprietors, they were.
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