"…usually the afternoons we spent down at the beach, we'd climb on the rocks and punt around and dig in the sand and build and play different ball games and in the water, we were all good swimmers, living on the ocean…

The evenings were spent around the bungalow area playing and at that time it was like a ton of money if you had 10 cents or a quarter. Rockaway didn't have many amusements on the boardwalk but they had a couple places that had these penny arcades and frankfurter places, knish places, boy did they taste good…

…the penny arcade had moving pictures… you'd collect big cards of movie stars or baseball players…I remember keeping mine in an old cigar box under my bed, under my pillow actually, I had my cards there, my jazz knife, it was a real Huck-Fin type existence. The Long Island Railroad was not elevated at the time, and in looking back it felt so country-ish, to walk across the railroad tracks going to the bay…

Larry Raisfeld