Kent Spangler of Young’s Nursery plants a shrub at the old Playland Pier site in 1976, a day after the City Council named it Independence Point.
May 31, 2026
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Unwanted baby badly wanted now; many offering homes to ‘Cookie’
The doctors and nurses called him “Cookie” because the newborn was found abandoned in a Melrose Fig Bars box with “Cookies” printed on the side. The baby was four to six hours old when located by State Patrolman Walter W. Cox on Wednesday afternoon, May 30, 1956: Memorial Day. He was tucked under a pink-and-white blanket. And he and his cardboard crib were discarded among small trees and bushes along a remote gravel road near Garwood.