The Next Chapter NJ the 50's to the 80's

I thought today that I'd talk more in general terms about wht life was like in NJ during the early years.   I wish that my scanner was working so that I could have pictures accompany this blog.  For those of you that are familar with the big ampitheater on the Garden State Parkway, it's original name was Holmdel Park.  After they built the center they named it the Garden State Arts Center and now it has a different name.  Well, before there was and arts center there was just plain old Holmdel Park and it was in the sticks.  The only other thing in Holmdel was Bell Labs of Telstar fame.  It was extremely rural dotted with corn farms and horse farms.  This is where we went to sleigh ride and boy was it grand.  It was a whole ay outing.  There was a great hill there named Telegraph Hill and it was so much fun to ride it all the way down on my Flexible Flyer.  Then along came Flying Saucers and at the time they were made of aluminum.  We'd wax them up an fly over the hills and bumps. It was the place to be in the winter.  I remember sometime in the 80's finding out that a lot for a home was then bout $14,000 and I thought how outrageous.  Now that same lot would be $250-300k.  Funny how time changes things.  What was once considered undesireable woods is now one of the more elite places to be in Monmouth County.