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From: "bill" <>
Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] Neptune Beach - Alameda
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:19:40 -0700
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My only history of Neptune Beach is personal.
Went their many times as a child, as young as 3 years old in 1925.
We took the ferry to Alameda (?) and a Red Car to the Beach. I think it was
a Red SP car or it could be yellow, Key System. Hey, I just turned 81 on May
8.. things are beginning to slip away.. (just kidding)
This was the only SF Bay water that was warm enough to swim in, but you had
to wade pretty far out to do so.
Bill
ps: From WPA San Francisco.
West of Washington Park is the site of Neptune Beach, formerly a popular
amusement park, now a residential subdivision.
An outgrowth of Neptune Gardens and Croll's Gardens, it was the mecca for
boxing and wrestling fans. John L. Sullivan, Bob Fitzsimmongs, Jim Corbett,
Kid McCoy, Billy Muldoon, Farmer Burns, and Frank Gotch all came here to
rest and train.


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