- Armory Dances on Sunday
night
- Beaver Valley
- Bowlerama, New Castle
- Boxing at the Blue Hen
Arena
- Brandywine
Center Bowling, 98 Vandever Avenue
- Bull Dogs
Woods
- Calling out for the 'Lockerboy'!
- Camp Mattahoon
- Camp Rodney Boy Scout Camp
- Camp Tockwogh
- Center City
Bowling
- Crescendo Lounge to see
'Cookie Jar & the Crumbs'
- Dances at Riddle Chapel
in Kentmere
- Dances at St. Johns Church
at Concord & Market Streets
- Dancing with service men
at the YWCA on King Street on Saturday nights
- Del Vets pool dances for
teenagers & Aldersgate Methodist Church canteen dances
- Delaware Roller Rink near
Wilmington Manor (now a Merit Gas Station)
- 'Dollar
Night' at the Drive-In Movie Theaters
- Easter Egg
Hunts at Rockford Park
- Eden Park Pool
- Elsmere
Dances
- Fairfax
Lanes, Fairfax Shopping Center (pre-fire)
- Fire Engine
Rides
- First State Bowling Alley,
Gov. Printz Blvd.
- Fireman's
Parades and Carnivals
- Going to the 'Dravo Marshes'
and catching Snappers
- Governor Printz Skating
Rink & Bowling Ally
- Grady & Hurst Dances
- Grady's
Bowling Alley, 8th & Orange Streets
- Grady's Fairfax Bowling
Center
- Hay rides out to Thompson
Bridge
- Holiday
Lanes, Philadelphia Pike
- Ice Skating
at Eden Park, New Castle
- Ice Skating
at
'Twin Lakes', Kennett Pike
- Indian Rock, Canby Park
- 'Kiddie
Town', du Pont Highway
- Lenape
Park in PA
- Local bands like 'The Astronotes',
'Teddy & The Continentals', 'The Turfs', 'Kenny & The
Creators' and 'The Jaynotes' to name a few!
- Lore School County Fairs
- Making 'Scooters' from
skates and orange crates
- Matusoff's Bowling Alley,
Gov. Printz Blvd.
- Merry-go-round trucks in
neighborhoods
- Merryland Roller Rink
- Miniature
Golf, 3rd Street & Greenhill Avenue
- Parkway Bowling Lanes,
Union Street
- Pledging
- Pop Weaver's Club at the
Ace Theater
- Pulaski
Day Parades in Browntown
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- Putt-Putt Golf
- Republican Club, 6th Street
- Rick's Riding
Academy, Concord Pike
- Riverview
Park in NJ
- Sacred Heart dances
- Salasianum (Sallies) dances
- Saturday
night dances at Modjeska Hall, Sycamore Street
- Saying "Oly-oly-oxen-free"
- Scottish Rite dances
- Seller's Estate Day Camp
- Silverside Lanes
- Sorority & Fraternity
formal dances in the Hotel duPont
- Spinning Wheels Skating Rink
- Steel Pier
Dances, Atlantic City
- St. 'Lizzie's' & the
Armory dances - Bill Haley often played
- St. Michael's
Club
- Sunset Park
- Swimming at Head Gatesand
Big Baby
- Swimming at Kirkwood Park
- Swimming at
Speakman's Pond
- Swimming at Thompson's Bridge
- The 1958 'Heart Show' at
the Wilmington Armory with Bill Haley
- The 50-mile hike in 1964
that started & ended in Rodney Square
- The James
E. Strates Shows, Prices Corner
- The two segregated
playgrounds between 9th & 10th & Lincoln Streets
- Tradding Comic
Books
- Truitt's Riding
Academy
- Valleybrook Golf Range
- Valley View
Miniature Golf, Concord Pike
- Visiting naval ships docked
at the Marine Terminal on 4th of July
- Watching (or marching & playing
in) the Memorial Day & Christmas Parades on
Market Street
- Watching 'Blue Rocks' Baseball
and Auto Daredevil's and Joey Chitwood at the old Wilmington Park
on Gov, Printz Blvd.
- Watching
Bob Horne on 'Bandstand' (before Dick Clark)
- Watching July 4th Fireworks
at New Castle County Airport
- Watching the 'Push Mobile
Derby' on Lea Blvd. and later, across from the DuPont Louviers
Site
- Watching the Ringling Bros,
Barnum & Bailey Circus from 3rd & Church Streets to 30th & Gov.
Printz Blvd.
- Wearing your
locker key on your ankle at the city pools
- Wilmington
Manor Lion's Club Dances
- Wilmington Skating Rink
- Wilmington
Speedway
- Woodland Beach
- Wrestling
at Fournier Hall
- Zoo-Bee Land was a very popular
night spot hangout in the 60's - secluded in the hills of Montchanin
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