![]() I’m astounded to find my dear father, who passed 14 years ago, and my brother as a sweet little boy in this footage. love the music you choose to go with it…and you look like a stud on the paddle ball courts….why isn’t anyone else moving? Hey andrew, i will forward the interest in this video. Great Stuff Where did you get all that stuff? Fink what happened to you u were a really good looking guy back then. The movie area also was big as was the kiddie pool The facilies were also good with 3 paddleball courts (parents only on the weekend) Paddle tennis courts and a full court basketball court as well as an area for shuffleboard and ping pong. A big “L” that even allowed a 25 yd sprint race and a deep end with 3 boards. I believe your memories are a little off. ![]() This was absolutely wonderful great great stuff You are right a lot of people have great memories. But Check out facebook Flamingo Cabana Club. With all due respect to Fran, she didn’t put Queens on the map. I’ll go into detail about that in a future entry. I had a giant crush on one of those girls shown lounging in the beach chairs. The people shown in the clips above are almost all from the projects.īut no matter the class, the beach clubs had the greatest concentration of active hormones anywhere in the city limits. ![]() The real Flamingo was almost all working class. The movie portrayed a private upper class Long Island beach club. The difference between the beach club portrayed in “The Flamingo Kid” and the actual Flamingo Beach Club in Whitestone was class. I think the Flamingo was also the setting for movie The Flamingo Kid – though it wasn’t filmed there. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Apat 3:05 pm and is filed under Growing Up. The place closed down in the mid-70s, but I’m sure lots of Queens natives remember it fondly. He would jump around in his gorilla suit and then be magically transformed into a beautiful girl. In the early 1970s, my best friend got a job there as a gorilla. ![]() The sudden spin of the cars would give me the most pleasant sensation in the groin area, so I was addicted. My favorite ride was the Tilt-A-Whirl and I would go on over and over again. It was a small place, but always loved the rides and the greasy food. I had more fun at the nearby amusement park called Adventurer’s Inn. ![]() I remember that there were lots of cliques at the club and that I was never really part of any of them, so I never felt that comfortable. There were also a couple of courts for paddle ball, but you had to wait ages to play. I loved to swim, but you really couldn’t go too far in the pool before smashing into someone. Drescher said in an interview that the Flamingo was just a concrete pool in the middle of a parking lot, which is an accurate description. One famous alumnist of the beach club was the actress Fran Drescher, who first put Queens on the map with her role as Fran Fine in the TV show “The Nannie.” My sister, who is five years younger than me, remembers her because they were close in age, but I don’t remember her. We never had a car in our family, so we took a bus into Flushing and then another bus to get there. In the summers of the late 1960s, when I was 17 or 18, we joined the Flamingo Beach Club in Whitestone Queens. ![]()
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