Wall Wednesdays brought to you by your friends here at The Vault, with a reminder to please consider supporting this year's Matheny Christmas Party by reaching out in any of the following ways:

Checks or gift cards can be sent to:
RJC Charities
70 Albert Drive
Parlin, NJ, 08859
Attn:  Bob Caramella   (Please Note:  Matheny School Party in the memo line.)
(RJC will return a tax exempt voucher to you if requested - (Please provide a mailing address where to send the voucher.)
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Donations via Paypal can be made through a link on the RJC Charities Website: http://www.rjccharities.com/Blank.html  

(RJC will return a tax exempt voucher to you if requested - (Please provide a mailing address where to send the voucher.)
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Checks or gift cards to be used for the purchase of gifts for the students can also be mailed to:
Kevin Eyres
144 Mercer Rd
Colts Neck, NJ 07722
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Comments welcome, and thank you to those who have already shown their support, and thank you in advance to those who will be reaching out in supporting this year's Matheny Christmas Party!

Photo 1:  #7 Rich Rigsby, #79 Dave Rezendes

Photo 2:  # 8X George Brunnhoezel?, #12 Gil Hearne, #28 Tony Hirschman

Photo 3:  #7 Rich Rigsby

Photo 4:  #45 Tom Mauser

Photo 5:  #91 Eddie Crotchfelt?, #93 ????, #45 Tom Mauser

8X Don Stives. Looks like Tom McCann in the 12, definately not Gil.  93 was Louie Rapone in the old Kremer 77 big track Mustang.  5th photo Barney Truex, Robbie Taylor, Louie Rapone and Tom Mauser. These may be from the Turkey Derby that was snowed out than run the follow week. 1982?

The 93 is missing the nose piece. I remember said “Bystander Racing” on it. 

Good memory, Bystander was a local bar band. I think Louie was related to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmiRqBL5t-8 The drummer was my neighbor, Bucky Naughton. His father was a State Trooper that kept us out of trouble!

Is Louie still around?

Bystander! Wow, have not heard that name in decades!!

"Fountain Casino"...

Haven't heard that name in years either.

I remember pulling in one night (probably Dec 1979) in a half painted brown/half primered '69 Camaro, with a spray painted gray roof, and chicken wire for a front grill, with a cop right behind me... lights flashing and all.  (My '71 Monte had just gotten totaled, so I pieced the Camaro together which was mid restoration, just to have a way of getting around)...  

It was back in the dance club heyday, and I was working at Bambergers at the time for a school course, so I was pretty spiffed up with a blazer, skinny tie, and probably the best light colored shoes available from Flagg Brothers (lol)....    When I got out of the car to talk to the cop, I don't think I was what he was expecting based on how ratty the car looked, and when I politely asked why I was pulled over, I got the usual "Your rear license plate light isn't working" (which use to happen every few months, even though there was never anything wrong with the light... It's factory for 1969.

No ticket... No written warning...  And pretty exciting way to show up at a nightclub!

We talked about the Jersey Shore bar bands before, but there were a handful making very good money playing covers. Seemed like they never had the time to produce originals because they were playing four or five nights a week, the 70's and 80's had that. Try to find a band now that plays a Friday and Saturday. 

How about Trigger, Flosy and Crystal Ship. 

Sticky Fingers at the Chatter Box, man. 

Holme was always voted best band. Frank Samenta and Kip were both in Holme and made a lot of money. They own D'Jais in Belmar and owned the Hunka Bunka along with former Modern Stock racer Bernie Bailey.

Wasn’t DJ’s that place that closed real early? It really messed up the flow of me getting my drunk on. 

Yes John.

Belmar changed their law and bars had to close at midnight. From Belmar you would go to BA (Bar A) or other establishments in South Belmar (now Lake Como) where the bars closed at 2am.

Thanks. If your hardcore, to the Playpen till 3 then the Alibi in Staten Island till 4. How did I survive. 

the osprey in Manasquan was also a hot spot when the bar closed you went across the street to gi gis pizza on the boardwalk for a slice then over to the ship wheel in Brielle they did not close to 3. then to satellite lounge in Cookstown they would close at 5 am and reopen at 6 am eggs with 7and 7. 

oh those were the days!!!!!!

Kix was another three or four night a week band. They even ended up with a recording contract. Crystal Ship was a Doors tribute band. The Ramones played Guilio’s South in Asbury right before their first album was released. I walked into the Fast Lane one Monday night and the Fabulous Thunderbirds were burning down the house. No one had heard of them yet and there were maybe eight people in the place. Osprey till last call, then a quick jump to Jimmy Byrnes for one or two more. Underage and hanging on the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk, listening to the bands at the Riptide. Shooting pool, then hassling the dressed up kids in the disco room at Art Stock’s Royal Manor. Foghat playing the Satellite Lounge. Getting a 3AM moment of lucidity and realizing you’re the only guy there NOT from the Base and the only guy NOT with a crew cut. T.T. Quick was another one you could find playing four nights a week. Having my first legal drink at Emmett’s Inn in Jamesburg, the “joint in the woods.”

Kix and TT Quick are favorites of mine. Crystal Ship played everywhere and where the absolute best Doors cover band. There’s video of them on YouTube playing in asbury park. I read that the singer died. Nobody sounds like Jim, but he did. 

Jimmy Ray Vaughn and the Fabulous T Birds.  Stevie Ray was awesome!   Jimmy Byrne’s Sea Girt Inn where the second floor should have collapsed!  Later was the Green Parrot for the new wave crowd and WHTG!   Mid 80’s.  We would leave Wall Stadium with the race car in tow to catch a Dramara show.  Park at the ice cream store up the road.  Lol

I believe I'm a  little older than the 3Widers that are posting all this shore bar/rock n roll stuff.  Here's my contribution to this post pertaining to the 80s, into the 90s..  My cousin, Buck Kelly, played in a "shore" band "The Jaguars" with Denny Carmello and Jack Leslie. I usually caught the Jaguars at the Aztec Lounge in Seaside.  Buck and Denny then moved on to "The Party Animals".   I recall seeing them playing at Jenkinson's on the Pt. Pleasant Beach boardwalk and a bar called Joey Harrisons (can't remember its location).  Scott Ely    

You might have a few years on me Scott...  But I do remember Joey Harrison's Surf Club which I thought was maybe in Ortley Beach? (1981?)

Lay out in the sun all day, and then hang out in the club all night (that is until Caddy Daddy and his crew came in and made fun of us well dressed guys!) lol....

The well dressed strategy did pay dividends though....  No additional details will be provided, other than to say that the well dressed thing helped me out kick my coverage on quite a few occasions(!)