Talk:Garden State Park
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[edit] Redevelopment
You're welcome to rewrite it, but it is not advertising; that's actually what's going on there. It's a major redevelopment. Information was taken fron the relevant links below. You need to search through the sites to find the pertinent data. - CobaltBlueTony 17:58, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Eyewitness accounts
As a lifelong Cherry Hill Estates resident born in 1960, much is still to be added, besides what I added about the Carpenter Tract. Personally, as a 12 year old on a rainy Saturday afternoon with my father and Grandmother, visiting from her farm in Tennessee, when I got to see really wild horse at the starting gate: Secretariat. I remember that name, because I asked my father what a "secretariat" was, thinking it was a corruption of the word "secretary;" and my father explaining it using the Soviet example.
Also, I was an (all too close!) eyewitness to The Fire, with small embers raining down on our home in Cherry Hill Estates on that fateful day in April 1977 as we watched the smoke rise standing outside. What was interesting is that at that time we were hosting a high school exchange student from France; and Jean-Michel told us later that his parents saw the fire on the TV in Paris.
My mother has a stack of newspapers in the basement commemorating historical events: I'll have to see if she has the photos from The Inky & The Courier Post from the next day; scan them in, and get permission to post them here. Discpad 06:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Dan Schwartz
