Digital Discovery: Facts & Photos on Sea Bright, Long Branch, and Sandy Hook …

Greg Kelly

I’ve sought to make this a pleasing and positive website. One that’s both enjoyable and educational. Too much of today’s Internet content is repellent. Lots of fiction, not so many facts. In my sharing of this worthwhile information and imagery, I’ve received plenty of kind encouragement and interest. I can tell you that digging for the information is half the fun.

Lots of good memories have been stirred through my research. I’m rediscovering people and places from the past. Hopefully, with much more to come. Here is a more organized presentation of the MB • LB • SB photo-fact collection I’ve built to date. Enjoy and please return as I will add to the pile regularly:

• About My Research Efforts — HERE
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Monmouth Beach Images:
• Aerials  — HERE
• Bathing Pavilion — HERE
• Borough Hall — HERE
• Boyle’s Tavern — HERE
• Buildings: What’s Left? — HERE
• Channel Club Tower— HERE
• Club — HERE
• Clubhouse Hotel — HERE
• Commissioners — HERE
• Find Your Connection— HERE
• Fire Company — HERE
• First Aid — HERE
• Gallery — HERE
• “Galilee”— HERE
• Gas Station — HERE
• Gail Gannon: “Artist” — HERE
• Golf Club — HERE
• Griffin Park — HERE
• Green Inn — HERE
• High-Rises at Ocean — HERE
• Library — HERE
• MB Inn — HERE
• Miscellaneous — HERE
• Mayor’s Gallery — HERE
• Police Department — HERE
• Public Works — HERE
• Post Office — HERE
• Precious Blood Church — HERE
• Railroad — HERE
• School — HERE
• Shorelands — HERE
• Vivian Johnson: Nightclub Queen — HERE
• “Wooden Palaces”— HERE
• US Life-Saving Service — HERE
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• Monmouth Beach History Archive — HERE
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Local Images:
• Long Branch Photos — HERE
• Sea Bright Photos — HERE
• Sandy Hook Photos — HERE
• Highland Beach Photos — HERE
• Shore Regional High School History — HERE
• Superstorm Sandy: 10 Years After — HERE
• Town Beach Clubs: SB • MB • LB — HERE
• Town Railroads: SB • MB • LB — HERE
• My “Monmouth College” Path — HERE

Publisher’s Note: I claim no ownership of these images; I just track them down and post them. Most discoveries came via constant searching of the digital world. Most of the facts come from the Long Branch Daily Record, Red Bank Daily Register, and Asbury Park Press digital archives — 350+ years of combined news coverage — MORE INFO.

Big Picture — Monmouth Beach aerial image, 2018 (Frank E. Snead Photo).

Big surf off Monmouth Beach, November 2022 (Jack Flaherty Photo).

Monmouth Beach, New Jersey by Francis Augustus Silva (1835-1886).