Great photos... Got my first airplane ride at skymanor (as my ID implies at 9 years old) while my dad was competing in an R/C competition there. Later (alot later) we had our Skyhawk based at N51 (Solberg) just east of N40.
Since my dad quit flying, Owning is beyond my finances, so I'm using club airplanes... But, hey, I'm fly'n... My dad and I were one of the first cars over the Verrazzano when it opened and an old army air corp colonel (at the time a CAP officer) took me for a ride under the bridge in his Champ. Crazy man! I was 13 years old and it was loooong before the class B's (then TCAs)