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Section 4: General Subject: YC Ground Breaking Msg# 1225663
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Over on the north side, the Seneca Park Road side, there were a few Boats for Hire signs.
By 1960 they were gone but I still remembered the one house very close to Stevens where the old lady rented boats and sold bait. I knocked on her door around 1975 and a young woman in her bedclothes came to the door and I said "you still renting boats?'. She looked surprised and said "sure". I was probably their first customer in years. I have a copy of the Platte dated 1928, I believe, for Seneca Park Beach which encompassed that whole side of Seneca Creek consisting of all lots on Seneca Park Road and then circling back via Nanette Lane to form an oval. Since only the south facing lots on Seneca Park Road were waterfront 3 lots were set aside as community beaches for the inland lots. Pretty sure none of those so called community beaches survive as such. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: My grandmother had a shore house on Seneca Creek where I spent summers. In the early 50s every other shore had a sign "boats for Hire". I lived on Seneca Creek from around 1944 until graduating from Our Lady of Mount Carmel grade school in fall of 1952, then moved to Baltimore and started at Mount Saint Joseph College in 1952. Graduated in 1956. So, swimming and fishing all over Seneca Creek for nearly eight years, I do not recall these "boats for hire" signs. We were on what might be called the south side of Seneca out near the mouth and faced the area where the ugly power plant tower was eventually built (now removed). Huck Finn boyhood. Swimming every day in summer; ice skate in winter; building forts in the woods; pump Daisey BB gun |
; fly fishing for largemouth bass; rowboat, no motor; etc.
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