Word: parke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David A. Park, Woodstock, New York--Gunnery School...
John F. Ambrose, Ozone Park, New York--Richmond Hill High School, New York...
Llewellyn C. Jones, Jr., Oak Park, Illinois--Oak Park and River Forest Township High School...
Flanked in later days by a line of resorts including Asbury Park and Bradley Beach, both developed by astute Mr. Bradley, Ocean Grove acquired in 1876 a big auditorium in which spoke not only religious leaders but Presidents of the U. S.-Grant, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt I, Taft, Wilson. Last week, when it reached the height of its most successful season since 1929, Ocean Grove was still a predominantly Methodist theopolis, one of a few communities left in the U. S. which are run on a strictly godly basis...
...midnight every Saturday, heavy chains are stretched across the three entrances to Ocean Grove, and no automobile may enter, or move in the town's streets, until midnight Sunday. Unless they go to Asbury Park or Bradley Beach, the 35,000 summer residents of Ocean Grove go without ice cream, soda pop, postcards, films and newspapers on Sunday. Ocean Grove is the only dry community on the North Jersey coast, and in 1926 the late John Philip Sousa, concert touring, incurred its permanent displeasure by playing Follow the Swallow after he had been told a march called Wets & Drys...