Oral History -- E-mail Questionnaire
The Borough's Historic Preservation Committee has begun a project to gather and preserve recollections of former residents. They would love to know more about you and your memories of living in Mountain Lakes. If you have the time and inclination, could you please fill out the questionnaire below and return it to me (webmaster@mtnlakes.org). If you have a picture of yourself, old photographs or other archival material about Mountain Lakes that you would like to share, please feel free to send it electronically or otherwise to the attention of Chair, Historic Preservation Committee of Mountain Lakes, Borough Hall, 400 Boulevard, Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046. We'll be happy to return your originals after making a copy.
Thanks,
Mountain Lakes
Historic Preservation Committee
On-Line Questionnaire
Name:
Email address:
Mailing address:
When and where were you born?
What years did you live in Mountain Lakes?
Tell us something about your family did your parents also live here?
Where have you lived in the Borough? In which houses?
What do you remember particularly about the houses and properties where you lived?
What are some of your special memories growing up in Mountain Lakes?
Where did you go to school? What particular memories do you have from your school years? Are there any special stories you associate with that time of your life?
Where did you and your family shop?
What were the roads and the lakes like?
Are there any special people you remember who contributed to the life of the town? Why do they stand out in your mind?
What did you do for fun formal recreation, sports and entertainment in general?
Are there any special events that stand out in your mind?
Did your parents and the parents of your friends work nearby? In New York or elsewhere? How did they get to work? How did commuting change over your time here?
How did various laws affect the way people lived?
Did you have a sense of Mountain Lakes as a unique place in its lifestyle, its homes, as a community?
How did the world's events -- World War I, the Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the assassination of JFK, Viet Nam, Watergate, etc. -- affect you and fellow Mountain Lakes residents when you were growing up?
What made living in Mountain Lakes special to you, as you think back over your life here?
Thank you for completing this questionnaire. The Historic Preservation Committee will add it to our rich archives of materials about Mountain Lakes.