You might have read about them in our August issue. A group of guys in their early 20s moved into a rental in Avalon on Memorial Day weekend, 1975. They spent the next eight or nine summers in the house they named “Friday on My Mind.” After all the good times, everyone moved on and went about their lives, although they all remained friends and Avalon always remained in their hearts.

There was a time not so very long ago on the Seven Mile Beach when “summer kids” made up one of the largest portions of the summer population. These were kids who lived for the last day of school in June. That’s when their parents already had the car packed and they immediately headed “down” to Avalon or Stone Harbor for the summer. That meant that they were on the island, barring a special circumstance, until Labor Day – or better yet, the day after Labor Day.