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Post by D Goess on Mar 26, 2003 20:35:26 GMT -5
Hey does any one remember the Creek. Not Cedar Creek but the one off the Seaford Oyster Bay. God had lots of fun times there. Now there is house's on it.....
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Post by janet on Mar 29, 2003 22:56:06 GMT -5
I sure do remember that creek. I use to live on Locust Ave. .which ran parallel to the creek. I didn't know there were houses in there now. I'll have to check that out, next time I'm "home" visiting. I remember lots of 'old friends' from that area....lots of good times. ;D
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Post by Tom Hagan 65 on Jun 4, 2003 16:08:10 GMT -5
I moved to Seaford in '52 on Gwenn Gate. I'm SHS '65. You could walk the creek from the canal all the way up past Sunrise highway and then up to the potatoe farm(which became the High School)then without seeing a house. It was a densely wooded area and you could spend all day there. You could also fish there! Seamansneck Road was the East boundary of the woods. Locust Ave was basically the Western boundary.Seaford/OysterBay Express. was originally called Wantaugh/Oyster Bay until my father and other town leaders complained. It was supposed to connect to Jones Beach but too expensive.
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Post by Warren Davies on Oct 2, 2003 17:42:36 GMT -5
Oh yes! I remember the creek. It is the same creek that crossed Waverly Road just past Michelle Cascone's house and was bordered by what was then called Davis Field where we built a little league baseball field there in the mid to late fifties. In the winter, the fire dept up at Jackson Ave. used to flood it for skating and we would all bring our Christmas trees and anything else that would burn so that we could have bon fires at night. Alot of us would put potatoes in the fire for "hot mickeys" later. I fell into that creek more times than I care to remember.
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Post by afal65mm on Oct 14, 2003 11:05:15 GMT -5
If it's the same creek that was across from the High School, and I think it is, then it got ruined when they built the Seaford-Oyster Bay. The water was clear. It had plants and fish in it. We swam in parts of it. After construction everything died.
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Post by Warren111qwert on Oct 18, 2003 13:20:00 GMT -5
Speaking of creeks... There was a creek that connected the Twin Lakes in Wantagh with the Mill Pond on Merrick Road. It ran parrallel to the Wantagh State Parkway. Just south of Sunrise Highway there was a GREAT swimming hole that was so deep that you could dive in head first from the road above it. Kids from Seaford, Wantagh and Bellmore converged on it every summer.
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Post by maryelenDP70 on Nov 1, 2003 14:01:37 GMT -5
... sitting on the creekbank, shoes off, dangling my feet in the cool water, behind the tall reeds where no one could see me - without a care in the world. THAT'S what the creek meant to me.
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Post by FISH1967 on Nov 7, 2003 11:35:09 GMT -5
That's where we used to go to smoke. On the other side of Merrick Road from the canal.
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Post by HA65 on Dec 3, 2003 12:45:23 GMT -5
I sure do remember the creek/swimming hole off the Wantagh Parkway. The water was about 8 feet deep where you dove in. The bottom was all gravel and sand. No branches and no rocks! It was perfect.
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Post by Walter Mitchell 1961 Wantagh on Jan 9, 2004 11:57:29 GMT -5
RE: Creek by the Mill Pond at Sunrise Hwy & Wantagh Parkway....... Swam there a lot. It used to have a rope swing but the cops cut it down. Too dangerous - they said
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Post by Robert Woolwich Wantagh 60 on Jan 9, 2004 17:07:26 GMT -5
I played and swam in that stream as an 8 year old. I lived just west of Seamansneck Rd and those woods and that stream gave me hours of fun each day. We would float past Hendrickson's dairy farm where SHS is today.
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Post by Robert Woolwich Wantagh 60 on Jan 9, 2004 17:10:46 GMT -5
I played and swam in that stream as an 8 year old. I lived just west of Seamansneck Rd and those woods and that stream gave me hours of fun each day. We would float past Hendrickson's dairy farm where SHS is today. I used to also swim in the stream off the Wantagh Parkway bike path (east side of the parkway) where there was a waterfall and nothing but river pebbles at the bottom.
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Post by Yvonne on Jun 10, 2004 18:17:28 GMT -5
Sure do remember. I used to live on Natalie Blvd. Hung out there almost every night during high school until I was going out with a guy by the harbor. When I was really young me, Ruth Harowicz, and Laura Liekweg, would spy on Mike Asquino, Jack Corsitto, and Kevin Rielly when they had a fort back there with Ruth Harowicz and Laura Liekweg. I think I was only 12 that summer.
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Post by Yvonne on Jun 10, 2004 18:18:39 GMT -5
Sure do remember. I used to live on Natalie Blvd. Hung out there almost every night during high school until I was going out with a guy by the harbor. When I was really young me, Ruth Harowicz, and Laura Liekweg, would spy on Mike Asquino, Jack Corsitto, and Kevin Rielly when they had a fort back there. I think I was only 12 that summer.
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Post by Pete Wyman Heidi on Aug 21, 2004 20:38:47 GMT -5
I lived on Locust from 1970 until 1989 and we always hung out on at the creek. We had a fort behind the Lutz's house by the rail. We use to sleigh ride in the back. My brother broke his leg there. We all smoked our first cigarette and drink and kiss there... I have a million Memories of the creek... My brother Rich died in '99 of cancer and I Just bought a Harley a few months back and I took a ride one nite and went to the creek and smoked a cigarette there and i felt like He was there with me..
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