While growing up in Edenwald, I always looked forward to Friday nights, during July and August.  My brothers and sister anxiously waited for Dad to take us to the Whitestone drive in movie. A rainy Friday night, really was a disappointed for preventing us from going.  If we arrived early enough, while it was still light out, we could get to go on the rides at the small amusement park at the Drive in movie. There was a ferrris wheel,  free standing spring supported horse rides and a circular ride, as I recollect.

One time my sister and I were riding the ferris wheel.  As we were at the peak of a rotation, the gate on our ferris wheel seat came off.  Luckily we were not hurt, but the owners of the drive in were extremely apologetic to my dad. After that incident, the owners made sure we always received free snacks every time we came the drive in movie . . . every summer season.

Drive in movie night allowed us to stay up as late as we wanted, because we usually went to bed at 8:00PM.

Seeing "Psycho" at the drive in was the scariest movie for me at age 9 or 10.

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Author: SirReid    in: Blast from Past

The education I received growing up in the Edenwald projects set a foundation for what I have become and achieved.  I lived in Edenwald from 1963 to 1971.  I had a fight almost everyday and never won any.  My father instructed me to fight like mad with every fight and I would not have to fight the same person again. My father was right. The bullies I fought had to work so hard to beat me down, they didn't want to have to go through it again. Bullies became my friend, afterwards. Go figure. It was my first "street" introduction to networking. I fought with any available weapons of opportunity;  sticks, bricks, teeth,  stickers from the sticker bushes, dirt, glass, grass, wrenches, belt buckles, kinves, a pencil, bees, my school books or whatever was available.

By the time I went to Unite States Marine Corps boot camp in Parris Island, N. C., it was a cake walk as I was thoroughly prepared for what was to come, mentally and physically, from my street smart education in Edenwald.

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Author: SirReid    in: Blast from Past

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