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I moved to Buckroe Beach from Detroit in 1944 at age 7, Mother worked at Tavern (Brick-Inn) there on waterfront, and in Hampton at a Bar & Grille on corner and still recall the GI's From Langley pouring in on weekends. Also played many times on those 50' abandoned military towers strung along beach on either side of park area that continued down to Ft. Monroe, and recall seeing German prisoners housed in rail cars in Ft Monroe where Grandfather worked many yrs as a barber..also lived in Foster home in Newport News before moving back to Detroit in 1950 never to return-but continue to have FOND MEMORIES of playing in that beautiful park & beach, and in City streets of Hampton, many movies in Hamton's Langley theater-made a wonderful red head freckled friend in New Port news nick-named "Poochie"...wish I could locate him after all these years.I'm now retired from Boeing living here in Seattle area.
Would love to hear from anyone who lived at those locations during that time frame (1940') Also,my dentist was in Phoebus, spent many hours in their little theater, and biking back & forth to Buckroe Beach, OR walking that stretch of beach..My 2 favorite rides at park was the merry-go-round, rocket ship ride..And, back to Hampton-still recall that little "ginger-bread" bridge that took you into town, and of course, all the segregation, "white" only rest rooms, and that white line in buss's ...
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Buckroe Beach Amusment Park
I moved to Buckroe Beach from Detroit in 1944 at age 7, Mother worked at Tavern (Brick-Inn) there on waterfront, and in Hampton at a Bar & Grille on corner and still recall the GI's From Langley pouring in on weekends. Also played many times on those 50' abandoned military towers strung along beach on either side of park area that continued down to Ft. Monroe, and recall seeing German prisoners housed in rail cars in Ft Monroe where Grandfather worked many yrs as a barber..also lived in Foster home in Newport News before moving back to Detroit in 1950 never to return-but continue to have FOND MEMORIES of playing in that beautiful park & beach, and in City streets of Hampton, many movies in Hamton's Langley theater-made a wonderful red head freckled friend in New Port news nick-named "Poochie"...wish I could locate him after all these years.I'm now retired from Boeing living here in Seattle area.
Would love to hear from anyone who lived at those locations during that time frame (1940') Also,my dentist was in Phoebus, spent many hours in their little theater, and biking back & forth to Buckroe Beach, OR walking that stretch of beach..My 2 favorite rides at park was the merry-go-round, rocket ship ride..And, back to Hampton-still recall that little "ginger-bread" bridge that took you into town, and of course, all the segregation, "white" only rest rooms, and that white line in buss's ...
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