"Rockaway is a very close peninsula. The bay is on one side and the ocean is on the other. We had three actual play areas. In the bay, there were reeds, tall reeds. We cut them down and being influenced by the war we played different war games and when we got tired of that… we'd collect little tadpoles and fish, no cruelty, we just had them for a while and then back to our homes and we'd always have to check in and a bite to eat, or a piece of bread and chicken fat which to this day I regret, but boy did that taste good…"

Larry Raisfeld