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| many good memories. but there where child perverts. I can name some. Is thare people you can remember as gross pervs? some thing still make me sick besides dixion |
| smoking dope down by the river. |
| I remember alot ofthings about my childhood in the beach. All my neighbors the Rogers, Barnes, Jackson, Waters, Goodies,and Hendricks and all the fun us kids had. Sorry about trying to run over you Steve with my mini bike. The forts we made in the woods and all the baseball we use to play in my back yard. I loved be able to roam all around the beach and only having to worry about when the neighbors were going to tell my dad about all the mischievious stuff I had been doing. I also remember getting teased about our PINK house from the others.(how could dad paint the house pink). But the biggest thing I remember is you always knew that if you needed help with something or needed anything you could always count on your friends or neighbors to lend a helping hand. What good times we all had I wish the world was still like that |
| My family and I lived up Lewis Road. My parents were good friends with the Keelers. "Load up we're going to Sunny and Butch's" is what dad would say. Their youngest daughter and I were great friends. We used to watch the Wizard of Oz on Sunday nights while our parents played (sp?) Kanasta. I remember Vacation Bible School in the Baptist Church, riding our bikes down to the river from the Keelers. I remember playing in the water puddles outside their house watching all the tadpoles swim around. Times Beach has a lot of fun and fond memories of my early childhood. When the flood came, the Keelers moved in with us - I will never forget the saddness and pain I could see in their eyes. I was only 7 at the time, ust shy of 8, but remember like yesterday. It's so sad to see it all gone. My father worked for ILL-MO Bobcat for years as well, I recall sitting on the countertops when I was 5 or 6 watching the guys work on the bobcats, my dad still drives those things today. Good Memories where always had in Times Beach. I wish all the residents good health still to this day! Thanks for the wonderful memories I will forever have! |
| Gordon was a great guy. I was his bartender when I was 21. I remember my uncle Chet forgetting to hit his brakes and running into the bar. I remember Susie and her 5 kids and little Tommy She worked there too. Wonder where you are. Vicki my cousin just had a brain tumor removed last month. She is 50. Send her and Tommy your prayers. We use to cook ham and beans down by the river that took 2 days to cook in the largest cast iron pot I had ever seen at Neal and Jane Wrens and their flamboyant daughter Vicky. I had my wedding reception at a small hall in town. Gene Wren, Betty says hi! |
| I remember visiting my Aunt Helen & Bob Stewart and my cousins and playing with them on the river. The river was right behind my aunts house. I also remember visiting with my sister Pat Conway (tooter) in the summer time and playing and running barefoot on those hot roads and playing in the dirt. I was about 9 or 10 years old. What I would give to go back to then........ |
| Does anyone have the same great memories as I do of playing on the playground by City Hall. The merry-go-round was so much fun as well as the swings and "see saw" We didn't have a care in the world, just having lots of fun playing for hours in the summer sun. |
| It was so much fun to play on the merry-go-round and swings (by City Hall) in the late 1950's and early 60's. We had no cares or worries in the world, just having fun playing in the sun. |
| I'm a former St Louis resident, West County. My friends and I had a LOT of good times swimming and partying on the Meramec there. I remember how weird it was to see the exit all blocked off and guarded, the trailers sliding off their pads like a real ghost town. Hope all who lived there are doing well. |
| I remember going trick-or-treating to some guys house that had exotic birds and a couple monkeys. The monkeys would spit on you. I think they worked at six flags in the puppet show. But every halloween we would get to go see the monkeys. C.Mills |
| I was around 7 at the time of the flood. We lived in a little trailer park. I remember riding the bus to school seeing men in white suites along the road before the flood. My dad ... came back after the flood and took all our furnature and plates and possessions. I've not lived in MO in quite some time but I vividly remember living in this tiny town. |
| I remember well the fun we had at the church picnics with the Gospel Singings. I think they were once a month in the spring and summer. Vacation Bible School, and the activities which involved the young teens at the Baptist Church. There always seemed to be something going on there. |
| Gosh... I remember being able to walk to the 7-11 down the trailer park road... and the guy knew my mom.. I was like 7 at the time. He would give me a gallon of wine for my mom. Can you believe that? Does anyone remember Steck... the cop? ; - ) |
| Danny Lindquist (Booney) was my first real love. His house was back to back with ours. Our son is almost 27 now and i would love to let him know that he was just awarded a scholarship for being the smartest in his state! |
| I am Robin. Was known as Jerry Benson's little sister. I just remember having so much fun in Times Beach. We lived on Ceder. Two streets from the river. We use to have a lot of fun!!! My best friends were Joanne Loper, and Sherry Walker. Remember the Lopers? Anyone? They moved before the flood. I think their house still had dirt floors when they moved. I remember the 7-11 and the camp ground. I remember flying down the outside road that went under the bridge as you were coming into times beach and my brother Jerry would do a complete turn around. I remember running with Dennis Houtin and all the other "bad kids" (whatever!) starting little busch fires and running from the cops. We were crazy! Who would even think in now??? I know it is a bad memory but i remember the summer that the young mother drove off into the river with her kids in the car. I remember Richard Shaw. Oh those gorgeous eyes and smile! I could go on and on. I'll be back for more! Robin Benson/Leuthauser/Grant (robin.grant@stjude.org |
| I remember riding my bike to the 7 eleven. I also remember my best friend Denise Creamer. I lived in Times Beach from 1971 to 1982. Sonia Meridith (Smith) |
| he was a good man |
| Someone mentioned two boys from the trailer park who were hit by a train. The date was March 5, 1971, overcast and cold. I can still remember the Frisko Line train breaks squealing for what seemed like a lifetime. It took the train a mile to stop as it was traveling nearly 100 mph. It was witnessed by Mr Yancey (?) an old gentleman who lived on the corner of Blakey and Lincoln. The boy's were Ricky Crosby age 8 who lived at 523 Oak St and Scotty Richardson age 7 who lived at 500 Oak St. A tragic day for both families. Many other memories as well that were much happier, like dirt clod fights, Hobo watching and dirt bike riding. I liken that time as something reminiscent to Tom Sawyer ..Ron Crosby |
| Attending the Full Gospel Tabenacle on Hawthorne where Bro. Curtis was the pastor and giving my heart to Jesus at the age of 12. |
| flood 93 |
| walking the streets singing " breaking up is hard to do with th e Reid girls(netti,debbi, Cindy, and sometimes the twins). Garden Rob-bin while wearing our dads big tee shirts ( so we could get more tomatoes)swimming in the river and getting in trouble for it. Halloween when we would get the good stuff the popcorn calls, caramel apples . Cindy & I blow drying our hair over the heater vents because we didn't have blow dryers. I remember using quarters with red nail polish on them in the pool hall the teen town dances, the donut shop. Playing baseball in the field where the trailer court went in. THEY WERE THE BEST OF TIMES. Life was the best!!!!! Celeste Honeycutt |
| toilet paper and eggs on halloween. My brothers and I went trick or treating and came home with pillow cases full of stuff... and yes, the pop corn balls were good... |
| My mom making a haunted house in our basment on halloween.. |
| Mrs. Shaw's popcorn balls at halloween |
| remembering the three best sharon's. sharon burton, sharon palmer , and sharon short. and dance contest at teen town. |
| Learning to drive on River road and racing the boys at night, running through yards at Holloween and forgetting about the fences, making cornshuck fires inthe middle of Forest on Holloween, teen town on Fridays,having a first cigarette nand beer at the train trussel, crawling out thru the second floor window at Paul Goodmans house and throwing bottle rockets into the woods from the roof, remembering all the good friends I had{some gone too young, some still here] |
| Hello everyone my name is Clinton, the interesting thing is that I remember going with my parents and sisters to visit a friend of theirs named Bob, he lived in a green house that was on stilts on the river, I was about 5yrs old when we first went to vist him ad his wife, I do not remember her name, my parents knew Mr, Disney when they lived in california before they mover to florrisant we moved their when I was 1, Mr, disney told my parents about winnie the pooh it was a concept charecter that he was developing and at 3yrs old I was fascinated by him, so my parents call me poohbear as a nickname and I loved it, I was 5 in 1947, it was a very long time ago, and i love computers, I love my laptop and how I can take er anywhere and go online, how times change, I remember gravel roads and a little store, and a tavern that I would hear music from, I sadens me deeply that one Man this Russel Bliss would ruin the lives of over a thousand people, he murdered horses, dogs, cats and birds and he also condemmed buildings, and killed a town, a town in my memories as a quiet peaceful place, beofre the oil on the roads, beofore dioxin, hope i spelled that right, was even heard of, is their anyone out their who knows of that green house on stilts and what happened to it over the years id it make it to the end or did one of the floods get er, God bless you all, all the former residents and know this, that heaven has a place for lost towns, and it has a place called times beach and in heaven times beach will never perish, Clinton W. Murphy Pooh, |
| I remember, summers in the beach. Vacation bible school Parades. Skate night when we would all meet at the times beach bible church and go over to the skate mor. Caroling in the snow at night around the beach, at christmas. My sister tammy dragging me through the snow to see her BF, me with a broken leg.Running the streets of the Beach as a teenager was always a blast. memories that just go on and on. ( Jerilyn Akers) here! |
| I remember how much fun the last reuion was 3 years ago. Everyone came and it was a fantastic time. Great to see so many people! It was like a big party! Please try to come to the next one. |
| Pancake breakfasts at the community center, teen town, the tiny jail house. I remember mom's beautiful garden, she worked in it every day. And the big lindley garden behind our house. My brothers brought one of the Circle R ranch horses to my birthday party. I was 10. I remember the day my baby brother Allen came home from the hospital when he was born and several neighbors came by that day and the next day and brought food by, and things. What a cool town we had. A town full of family.. |
| wow, too many memmories to list all, thats for sure, but highlights would have to be me and brian waltman stealing an 8 pack of miller ponies from bob waltmans fridge, then sitting in J.D. lindleys turnip patch and getting hammered, we couldn't of been more than 8 or 9. I remember walking to Falls market to get a pack of cigs, he would give me $1, i got to keep the change for walking up there. That left a lot of money for the candy rack. I remember walking the roads barefoot, the hot tar melting on the bottom of feet. i remember rory and rick crueson(?) putting together pick up games of softball, playing tackle football or hot box. i remember the cops coming to the house to confiscate BB guns and beer can cannons from my brothers. I remember roger askins giving me rides on his shoulders to the donut shop, hooking me up with nickles to play pin ball while he made google eyes at my sister. wow, what a long time ago..........Allen Stewart |
| I remember many things,riding on Lester Hinsons tractor Fender down the road..Being stupid enough to get on a sled being puled by Donnie Sowards in a Charger...god rest His soul.....Dale S |
| I remember many things, we lived there our whole childhood, same house on Cedar Street. My best friends Vicky Lynn, Marianne Curtis, Donna Huels, and Donita Baird. I remember that I was always worried about my brothers playing on the train trussel. My brother Gary somehow got knocked in the river and got a concussion. My first date, Terry I wont give your last name. Halloween, we took pillowcases out and came back with them full. I remember before the trailer park. And the smelly goat that lived on the corner of forest and something, right by the bus stop... This is the first time I been in this site, My brother Dale just told me about it today... I am happy to be here. |
| I remeber shooting tennis ball cannons at the police cars and having then chase us round town with no chance of catching us...can you imagine doing that today? |
| I remeber very well ,when Joe trucks was Mayor He and alot of very young teens took over Munzerts bar...Jeanie sowards was bartending and we all had ablast ,while Bob M was passed out at the Bar...where else on earth could that happen D Stewart. |
| i remember going to Crescent and sneaking into that Mansion with the blue room, all you hoodlums that went with me know what i am talking about... Steve, you remember!!! and coming back across the railroad tracks when the battery died in your car? |
| I remember riding with Sue Miles on her 2 seater bike I remember certain guys stealing the tractor they were using to make the trailer court and coming by my house I remember Jemima coming by my house late at night and knocking on what he thought was my window but which was actually my dad's (my dad came in and told me that he was knocking on my window) I remember puking off of Crescent bridge I remember a mud fight that Sue Miles, Donnie Worthing and Tom Phillips and I had for fun I remember a bunch of the guys putting a new floor in our boat only to have Floyd Crane come by and show them how they nailed the nails thru the bottom of the boat I remember having the cops catch us out in Weber's field drinking and since I got away - Donnie Worthing saying my purse was his at the police station I remember my first love I remember the swing and the fun times we had there I remember me and Tom going with Ronnie and Debbie Meyer to their hotel the night of their wedding I remember setting at the gas station attached to Munzert's watching Tom Jones with Johnny Worthey I remember all of my good and best frinds from that time - some that are now gone but still loved -Donnie Sowards, Wayne Crane, Rusty Rush, Ronnie Meyer, Brenda Meyer, Eddie McKinnon, Don Lindley and more. I remember going over to Brenda's and her dad, Bob, would be setting at the kitchen table with only his underwear on and Brenda would be so embarrassed I remember walking the streets with Shelley Bowen I remember Teen Town I could go on and on. I REMEMBER THOSE GOOD OLE DAYS! Must mean I'm getting old, huh? LOL Let's all get together sometime and swap stories Love ya forever !! ME (Donna Miller (Creamer) |
| My bestest friend in the whole world....... Donnie Burton---------luv ya boy!! Barbie |
| I remember that every year the bushes in front of Tinker's house would get torched. And Bernie Hance would stand at his fence and sing amazing grace to us everyday when we walked home from the bus stop. My neighbor and friend Lisa, you too johnny I miss it all very much, We had some great adventures. Connie Mills |
| Excuse me...Sweenie and Tiny am I bad. It's only been 30 yrs... |
| Sweetie the cop. he was always looking for my brother... |
| I remember the town before the trailer park was there and the freeway entrance by the train tracks. I also remember all the good,honest and hard working people. |
| I remember living ther from 1969 to 1982. I am Johnny Smith, my family lived at 710 Orchid drive.I will never forget my "time" in Times Beach. |
| Swimming, Teen Town, and working for Gordan at the bar. |
| by the way, my last name is Worthey |
| I remember when our neighbors, "The Lindquists" dog Freckles and our other neighbors, "The Swearingens" dog Sassy, were stuck together. I was worried about them and asked by parents why they were like that. My mom and Dad told me they had gum stuck on there butts. My dad poured some water on them and they ran in opposite directions. Tammy Worthy |
| Sled riding down the hill that connects to hwy 44, We lived in the trailor park there. The Clubhouse, the pool. We walked the railroad tracks and hung out at the 7-eleven and played vidoe games. Sherry |
| Falls Market getting candy,riding my bike all day everywhere,the bookmobile parked by the water tower or close to it which was across from where we lived (Scotts Duplexes) the little store where the bus stop was which later became a donut shop and then a pool hall, hanging out at the gas station where my dad Darvin worked which was next to the Junk yard.When Buck Buchanon opened that restaurant off the hwy. Marian Hance and Debbie Dake babysitting me in the summer, sitting on the corner of Forrest St., and the road that the police station was on, with my friends Sandy Wood and Patti Bledsoe to watch the older boys drive their cars down Forrest St. I can remember the name Donnie Worthington and what his car looked like, going to my grandparents Jack and Kate Horton they had a huge garden and their well water smelled like rooten eggs which my grandmother always made iced tea with, it was disgusting, I just recently tried tea again. |
| Picking blackberries in the summer by the railroad tracks. The Circle R ranch horses getting loose, crossing the railroad tracks, and eating the grass in our yard. Burning trash and accidently catching the field in back of our house on fire. The burnt field must of given someone the idea to put a trailer court there. The easter egg hunt in the baseball field and finding a snake trying to eat one of the eggs. The field mice coming into the house in the fall and the snakes coming in after them. Junior Portner(spelling?) walking everywhere collecting glass soda bottles to refund. Fishing in the river and someone from a passing boat yelling "Look mermaids!" The fogging truck driving up and down the roads killing mosquitoes. Selling Girl Scout cookies and crochet dollies for my grandmother. Mr and Mrs. Ellis's beautiful garden and Mom telling me they used to ride motocycles when they were young. The smell of the river in spring. That small earthquake we had in 1970 (I think). Two boys from the trailer court getting hit by a train one March. The fireworks stand along that main service road around the 4th of July. I'd save a couple of bottle rockets every year and wait until New Years Eve and set them off at midnight. Hoping every year the river would be low enough so I could wade across and explore that little cave on the hill, (never got to do it, a big black snake leaped out of the weeds and scared me.) The millions of yellow flowers that lined Lincoln Drive in late summer, early fall. The deep ditches along that one narrow stretch of Lincoln Drive. Several people had their cars fall in that ditch. |
| Who says you can't go home! When I read these memories of everyone I always go back! Keep writing, because we know there is alot more! |
| MEETING CHARLIE AND BLANCHE THEBEAU WHO TURNED OUT TO BE THE BEST FRIENDS THAT WE HAVE EVER HAD.WE HAVE SO MANY HAPPY MEMORIES OF TIMES SPENT WITH THEM. |
| I lived there from 1955 until 1974 I started moving around but I always could come HOME TO THE BEACH until the flood. I was living in Philladelphia PA when the flood came along and I could not come home. It will always be HOME in my memories. I have such good warm feeling when I start thinking back to my childhood, my street went from all boys to all girls except for my brothers and one other boy. We never had to lock our doors or worry where the little ones were because everybody watched out for each other. It was one big family. We were always safe. Mom or Dad would whistle and no matter where we where someone would tell you that you had to go home. I will always miss the beach..... |
| getting our house robbed |
| When I was 5yrs old, me and my sisters and parents lived in Florrisant, my mom and and dad and us would go see a friend of theirs in Times Beach his name was Bob, He lived on the river in a green house that was on stilts, i also remember gravel roads eveywhere and how quiet it was, and I remember my parents telling me not to go near the river,,, |
| oil on the roads |
| I remember that horse! We used to lead it around a neighbors yard to stomp out the flowers....no wonder that neighbor hated us. |
| Yes Zufall's horse Camanche. It was hit by a truck on hwy 44. |
| The Zufall's horse! |
| Playing at the courthouse on the Merry Go Round and picking flowers for the ladies who worked inside. |
| it as I remember it, it's the place where all my greatest childhood memories came from. And I will never forget them, because of the people that lived there, and the friends I that grow up with and still think about and miss everyday. |
| First Kisses |
| when Steve Hendickson drove a car with no hood? LOL love ya steve !! |
| Learning to drive and dodge pot holes! |
| GROWING UP IN THE BEST PLACE I EVER LIVED.AND SHARON BURTON,BRENDA MYERS TWO OF MY FIRST GIRL FRIENDS |
| Yes we remember TEEN TOWN, what a good time we had every Friday night! |
| always feeling safe walking the roads of Times Beach and knowing the majority of the families |
| making home brew and hiding it in a vacant lot until it was ready (which we could never wait for!) |
| sneaking to the river to smoke |
| oil on the roads |
| Wipe Out at Teen Town |
| Teen Town.... |
| the swing!!! |
| how most friends where the same as family |
| how much fun the summer was at the river. |
| how peaceful river road was. |