On 3/26/13 7:49 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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The tunnel *is* the one on the Wilbur Cross/Merritt Parkway...the tunnel
was renamed "Heroes' Tunnel.

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That's right too. I'd forgotten that the parkways were one and the same
for some miles.

Used to date a girl from Ansonia. Now *that* was a rough town. She was
a senior at Ansonia High School and I was a junior at Amity.
She asked me to take her to her senior prom. Place was like "The
Blackboard Jungle" except it was co-ed.

I haven't been in that area for many, many years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRhYNLaziO8


I have absolutely no memory of ever being in Ansonia. I do remember
Shelton, because back then you had to drive through it to get to Lake Zoar.

I do remember fondly how close together so many cities and towns in
Connecticut were and, obviously, are. In the summer, we hung out at
Woodmont with a crowd of kids from New Haven, Milford, Waterbury,
Woodbridge, Stratford, Bridgeport, even from such far away places as
Brooklyn and, gasp! Ansonia. In fact, I remember a nice gal named Rhoda
from Ansonia.

When we got driver's licenses, no one thought it was a big deal to drive
a half an hour to Waterbury or Bridgeport to pick up a special gal for a
date. The Connecticut Turnpike was fairly new, and I think it was two 25
cent tolls to Bridgeport.

My memory of "Blackboard Jungle" was that the school *was* co-ed. I
could be wrong about that. Hey, who would want to go to a single-gender
high school, anyway?