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.
Never ended up at JP Maloney's - at least not that I remember - but, back then, there were all sorts of dives in AP we would stumble into and not remember the next day. Amazing I didn't have numerous DUI's from those years. I would love knowing to what areas Bruce was referring with his lyrics. - across the river, mansions of glory, etc. I've heard lots of rumors but have never seen anything definitive. Now Bruce writes his songs against capitalism from his $10 million Rumson estate. My brother graduated from RFH in 1991 and, occasionally, Bruce would come up to the school and play touch football with he and his friends on Saturdays. I am also told Bruce enjoys chasing Rumson housewives.
RBC was, for years, the rivalry football game with Rumson. And, IIRC, it was played on Thanksgiving. That ended at some point, and I think it was because Rumson got tired of losing 40 or 50 to 0. Now the rivalry is with Shore.