--- In [email protected], "justifiedright"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
He also said that boon boxes were a payback from the "Japs" for
Hiroshima. Mayor Kramer's wife is Japanese. It didn't go over well.
I have a fun old Asbury story that mirrors this bicycle debate.
>
> Many years ago we had Mayor Frank Fiorentino, who is still one of
my
> favorite people in the world. Great guy.
>
> Remember when "boom boxes" first became popular? At a council
> meeting the Mayor complained that on the boardwalk he had a boom
box
> antenea take his glasses off his face. His solution: An ordinance
> outlawing boom boxes on the boardwalk and beach.
>
> Being a young whippersnapper interested in the politics of the
City,
> I thought I'd make a little presentation at the next council
meeting
> against the ordinance.
>
> I went and made a list of every "no" sign down the beach I could
> find: No dogs, no liquor, no skating (can't remember the rest, but
> there was 6 or 8 of them).
>
> At the meeting I said, "Look, you guys complain every meeting that
> all the vendors on the boardwalk are behind in rent. Yet all the
> fun stuff is outlawed keeping people away. Now if some family
comes
> to the beach and gets a $500.00 ticket (that was the price) for
> turning on a radio, they're never coming back either."
>
> I probably went too far when I argued: "If you old folks want peace
> and quiet go to the library, but let the rest of us listen to the
> radio on the beach." (2 of them were younger than I am now)
>
> The measure passed 5-0.
>
> I wonder if it is still on the books?
>
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