Rumson was similar with the parties and some of the homes were staggering. The parents never seemed to have a problem with excessive underage drinking and the indoor pools were always a plus. Most of the Rumson kids stayed local for school but many went to RBC, CBA and a variety of prep schools - Peddie, Lawrenceville, Dobbs Ferry. I used to laugh at Lacrosse but now everyone plays it including my kids.
I used to feel for you guys wearing those uniforms when it was 90 outside. I see where RBC is now recruiting football players and consistently has one of the best teams in the state. Times have changed.
RBC was Parochial A State Champ in 76.
Deal kids could and did go whatever bar or club we wanted, especially dives that we would just kind of take over. So we had some street smarts being next to Newark by the sea and all.
There was one total dive, JP Maloney’s, which was really close to the Deal Lake (Meeting Across the River?). They never cleaned the floors, just threw sawdust down. It was often the last stop many times in half a blackout. So many times the next day we would look at each other and say, “Did we go to Maloney’s last night?”
It was such a running joke that it became a pretty popular spot. A couple of times I brought the daughter of a then sitting NJ Supreme Court Justice there. Many years later, the son of another Judge who we brought there tried the Biegenwald case
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/09/nyregion/five-killings-a-fearful-silence-is-broken.html
During testimony, Biegenwald said he often went to JP Maloneys.