![]() ![]() He opened up the barber shop right in that little corner. and he bought himself out, at that time, you could buy yourself out. They done away with battery barbers and they made civilian barbers. He was in the service at the time, and they had battery barbers. LB: So I went to work for this barber, a fellow by the name of Frenchy. The full story, if it’s alright with you, I like to hear the full story. You don’t mind, it gets to be a little risque too? LB: Okay alright, now, what really happened. TH: Yeah that… I’d like to know where you came down here and set up a barber shop. TH: Right, they had them up on Highlands hill here. And there was one place, no, that was put up during World War II, Joe. LB: There were two big sixteen-inch guns. TH: From what I’ve read of all the defenses here, the largest guns they had were twelve-inch. ![]() The sixteen-inch gun, the twelve-inch gun and eight-inch guns…. At that time was only the, barbettes and disappearing guns. LB: Of course they were using the batteries out along the coast here. And 52nd stayed from 1930 right on through World War II. LB: And that’s how we started our little, base here. And they took it from the 52nd Coast Artillery. They call it the 52nd, no wait a minute, the missile outfit. Even when the, back in 1956, when they reorganized the field artillery, when they came back here. And this happens to be the home base of the 52nd. In the meantime, the early part, in May of 1930, the 52nd Coast Artillery, it was made up of C Battery, E Battery, Headquarters Battery, the band, came to Ft. The seventh coast moved to Fort Sill, I think its in Texas (Oklahoma). And some of them went out to Carlisle Barracks (PA), some of the outfits. And they were moving it all down to Aberdeen. They were just getting rid of the ordnance in the north part of Sandy Hook. LB: Everything was still here in 1929, I came here in ‘29. LB: Yes, in ’28 and ’29, ‘cause I came here in ’29. The ordnance and everything was still out here. TH: Well, from what I read, I understand they moved out in 1919, like Bernie Duze will tell me and you’ll tell me that in 1929 you still remember the ordnance still being there. It was pretty busy, and of course they had the ordnance here and they were just about at that time moving out to Aberdeen, Maryland. I was only sixteen years old at the time, and of course there was no business and this place at that time was the Seventh Regiment of the Coast Artillery at the time. It was too early in the season, before the rush started, and it was my Dad, my brother and I. We’re from Cliffside Park, N.J., and we trade shops, barber shops. LB: There was a barber shop down at the Highlands. ![]()
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