Monmouth Beach Life Photo Collection
Sea Bright, Long Branch, Sandy Hook and Highland Beach Images too. Dig in … I’ve sought to make this a visually pleasing website. One...
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Local Beach Clubs: SB • MB • LB
Sand time at Monmouth Beach, Sea Bright and Long Branch … At the peak in the late 1960s, these three North Shore towns combined...
The Gaskin Family of North Long Branch
Seafood Lords of North Long Branch Called a “pioneer resident” by the Long Branch Daily Record, Conover J. Gaskin, Sr. was born in New...
Images of Long Branch …
Dedicated to Tom Booth of Long Branch (1951-2019). Rich in historic imagery, as a place offering shore sun and fun Long Branch has few...
Long Branch: Grand Hotels of Past
Magnificent seashore dwellings from a city’s glory days I’m endlessly fascinated by the magnificent seashore hotels that sprawled along the Long Branch shoreline. These...
The Trials of Dr. Carl Coppolino
While exploring my physician-dad’s medical book collection at our Monmouth Beach home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice of Hypnosis...
Broadway: Where Long Branch Did Business
“A Legendary Road Awaits New Dreams” First mapped in 1835, first paved in 1891 — Broadway was where Long Branch conducted commerce. Historically, the...
Sea Bright: Boro of Beach Clubs
It’s the ultimate beach town — folks have been coming to Sea Bright for the sand, sea and sun for 125 years. Young and...
Pleasure Bay Days in Long Branch
“Pleasure Bay has always been just what its name implies.” — Long Branch Daily Record, July 1939. In an effort to expand beyond the...
Images of Sea Bright …
Classic photos of a seaside borough … (Page dedicated to the Sea Bright Historical Society) Monmouth Beach and Sea Bright have a lot in...
Long Branch Pier: Boardwalk Fun & Games
The first-ever “Long Branch Pier” onto the Atlantic Ocean was built in 1828. Called the “Bath House Pier,” it was used mainly as a...
Monmouth Beach Club Images
The Monmouth Beach Bath & Tennis Club (known popularly as “The Club”) rests along Ocean Avenue. This coastal building is perhaps the definitive piece...
Long Branch: City of Beach Clubs
A photo-essay on beach life at Long Branch … Long Branch is a beach town — one of the best ever. Shore lovers have...
Images of Sandy Hook …
It has 500 years of history — going back to the 1520s when Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to explore our “Jersey...
Sea Bright School — Learning in the Past
Sea Bright School History The first-ever Sea Bright public school was opened in 1874, according to a Long Branch Daily Record, and burned four...
Elberon: Once a “Playland of Millionaires”
* * * * * Elberon is “a veritable Eden … wide streets unmarred by wires, perfect hedges and lawns, and...
Churches in Monmouth Beach
Monmouth Beach was an amazing community in the late 19th Century. In addition to the rich and famous there were also, thanks be, the...
