It's hard to know where to start. I grew up in the Middletown-Red Bank area and always went to Asbury Park with the family-never Seaside or Pt. Pleasant. My dad liked Asbury best-and he should know -he was the Coca Cola man who actually tested the soda at the stors. At least he was until he retired in the late 70's-he did it for 30 yrs! I would go with him in the summers sometimes when I was small. It was  heaven-a soda at Duckey's, lunch at the Miramar with Gus,  and the final treat from Kohr's.

  I started working at Maxwell House Coffee Shop in 1969-when I was 15. I stayed until the summer after hs graduation-1972. Actually, Mr. Resnick opened @Easter/Passover on the weekend to take advantage of everyone who took a drive "to the shore" for the day. These summers were perfect. Everyone who worked the boardwalk was in hs or college-we knew everyone-it was a wonderful club. Our store had the waffle ice cream sandwiches-home made waffles, not frozen. On a hot Sat night the line went out 20 feet. We were right next to Barbara Jean's and an amusement place whose name I've forgotten. Besides the waffles we had homemade pancakes and donuts. We decorated the donuts with red, white and blue icing for the 4th of July. People would ask when the donuts were coming out so they could get them steaming hot!

    I love this website and I have enough memories to fill a book! Asbury was and is a very special place. It's hard to put into words the feeling you always got whenever you first walked into Convention Hall, or drinking that first cup of coffee while sitting on a bench watching the waves in the early morning sun.

  I would love to hear from anyone else who worked the boardwalk, especially all the alums from Maxwell House! Thanks for this chance remember.