Fond Memories

...Nancy from Strongville, Ohio

Hi Vin,

My name is Nancy and I am writing to you from Strongsville Ohio. My family on my mother’s side is from Edgewater NJ. My Nana worked for the borough hall for some fifty years and my Papa was a mail carrier. Their house (as well as mine and some of my cousins) was on Undercliff Ave. We could sit in my grandparent’s front yard and watch the lighted Palisades Park sign. I remember in my cousin’s house we would fall asleep watching the lights and hearing the park noises through her window. I was born in 1960. My grandparents are deceased and the house on Undercliff Ave has been sold. However, my extended family cousin’s second cousins etc…still go the ballpark every year for the Casey Day Family picnic and most still live in the area.

I’m writing to you in hopes of finding a picture of the lighted sign that was facing NYC. I mean the scrolling billboard. I hope I’m explaining this right. Anyway, I used to walk to the park all the time as a child. My fondest memories are the huge lollipops the rubber punching balloons and the caterpillar ride that went around in circles with the canvas top opening and closing. My brother won the diaper derby at the park and my mother and all of her brothers swam in the saltwater pool all the time. I was so sad when I first saw the high rise apartments there and not the park. The Palisades Amusement Park was a huge part of my life’s fondest memories.

Thanks Sincerely

Nancy

Editor's Note: I'm sorry, Nancy. I found several photos of the P.A.L.I.S.A.D.E.S  A.M.U.S.E.M.E.N.T  P.A.R.K sign that was on the cliffs but I could find no photo of the scrolling sign.