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  • Stadium Memories
      • Marty K
      Posted May 28, 2009 9:11 AM


      I remember going to Essex', and later Barringer, football games at the stadium, as well as our own Sound Of Music Drum Corp Contest.

      Back in the July of 1967, after several nights of intense rioting, my parents decided we'd take a trip down the shore before it got any worse. Passing by the stadium, I saw helmeted National Guard troops standing atop the walls, rifles at the ready. Later I learned it was used as an emergency detention facility for hundreds of prisoners, who were shackled like cattle on that field, for days on end. There was just no place else to put them.
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