I was born and raised on Staten Island, way before the influx of people that settled in after the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was officially opened. Most of them settled in on the South shore.
 
Back in around 1960 only two hundred thousand people resided on the Island which was double from the 1920’s. But today in 2020 there's like 500 thousand.

There was plenty of growing up space and us young 1960’s and 1970’s dudes gallivanted wild through it and acted like we owned it! 
Well not everyone was wild just the hanging out neighborhood kids and every neighborhood had its hanging out spots.

By the Nineties population doubled and that was when I moved off the Island. 
Revisiting from time to time I see drastic changes to a place that seems unrecognizable today to me in its over grown population.
Staten. Island. is only 14 miles long from end to end but they keep coming.

Even though I've moved, I cannot but reminisce of my upbringing remembering so many life experiences and the way I remember it. 
I hope to share some of that at some point.

If your interested follow the link in reference to the years I spent growing up at the beach, a place called Wolfe's Pond Park  which I spent seven years of my youth from the 1960's into the 1970's working what used to be the old food concession that my parents owned.

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No one could have said it any better than 
King Solomon: from the book of Ecclesiastes

Chapter 3

There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens:

A time to be born and a time to die,
A time to plant and a time to uproot,
A time to kill and a time to heal,
A time to tear down and a time to build,
A time to weep and a time to laugh,
A time to mourn and a time to dance,
A time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
A time to search and a time to give up,
A time to keep and a time to throw away,
A time to tear and a time to mend,
A time to be silent and a time to speak,
A time to love and a time to hate,
A time for war and a time for peace.
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Through my years I've taken up many hobbies and applied my self to learning technologies and mastering talents, maybe it's -
A time to work on my website 
but I still find myself…..  ( ? ). 
"You fill the question mark for you"


Vinnyg

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vinnyg Web site last updated last April-2020.
As time goes on I will TRY to add additional web pages and content... 
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