There Used To Be A Boardwalk Here

This video is a tribute to Beach 35th Street, and the Rockaway Beach of the past, a place that no longer exists. Ben Budick, Far Rockaway High School Class of 1967 has written a tribute to a time and a place long gone, but which lives on in our collective memories.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Rockaway
• Beach
• Boardwalk
• 35th
• Street
• Ben
• Budick

[thekenzosh]

Rockaway is a peninsula that is still GREAT. Essentially it has NOT changed.....beach, sand, sky, surf, sunsets, salt air....still there...

[martywgs]

We've got Mayor Lindsay to thank for the loss of our beloved Rockaway .  What he did was a sin. Like Hiroshima after the bomb from 35 St. to 73 St.

[sylviekell]

I was born and raised in Rockaway, grew up on 112th Street. I have fond memories of Playland, Martin's Corner, the band concert at St John's Home for Boys followed by the fireworks every Wednesday night during the summer, the penny arcades that once were, the concession stands that once were. The DFDs. It was once a great place.

[MyComputerwizard]

wow i bike ride on that beaach all the time there getting rid of boards and putting concrete down the wood boards are the last of the memories

[shimrob]

Rockaway was a great place to grow up in, during the later years it became a shithole. The video brings back the good days!

[information20]

Sorry I actually lived in rockaway for 13 years. Sorry if I said 15

[information20]

I lived in rockaway for 15 years. At this time it is currently a world of shit to live in. Even in those 15 years I lived in it. I could have never amagined how nice it used to be when I saw this video. Wow perhaps I should show some more respect to a place like that in which I lived for 15 years.

[diazgrp]

Great Video - Great Memories! Thank You

[dickylobster]

Nice vid Skippy

[rich1223]

Wow that was great i grew up on Mott ave in Bayswater every day of the summer was spent on Beach 9th or B 17th!