memories
Memories
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Postwar history of Pearl River
a very readable account that covers our time through 1997.
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Take a walk around Pearl River as it looked in 1935.
(It wasn't so different in 1955.) from Fred Prezioso,
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Memories
by Al Fischbein
6/25/08
I remember;
arriving in Pearl River as a second grader who thought he was pretty tough but wasn’t.
Mrs. O’Brien (Tommy’s mother) asking me what I wanted to be as a grown-up and telling her ‘a gangster’.
what a safe town Pearl River was. Do you remember ‘Skippy Simple’? He was the only really strange person I remember.
Mrs. Scovil’s dance classes, where I was supposed to learn to dance, but it was a hopeless cause.
Halloween time and painting Halloween scenes on the windows in town.
in my freshman year going out for football and having to walk over a half mile through town to get to the field behind Dexters, and then after practice walking back to school. Nobody seemed to mind, what the heck, we didn’t know any better.
Ira Shuttleworth; next to my father, he was the man I most respected .
never being late for school til the end of my senior year when, my ‘friend’ Nancy Corbett, marked me late for not being in my seat when the bell rang.
Bob Ganoe, who taught math and coached football and wrestling. I ended up doing the same, as well as going to Lock Haven for a year, the school from which he graduated. Do you think he may have influenced my life?
I could go on and on, there are so many memories I would like to share with you, so many friends I would like to mention, but I would have to write a book. The one thing that I am most thankful for in Pearl River is meeting my wonderful wife Carol. We will be married for 45 years on October 20th, and I can’t imagine sharing those years with anybody else.