Monmouth Beach Club Images
The Monmouth Beach Bath & Tennis Club (known popularly as “The Club”) rests along Ocean Avenue. This magnificent coastal building is perhaps the definitive...
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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...
Monmouth Beach Clubhouse Hotel Images …
Monmouth Beach’s Top Hat … It’s the spot where Monmouth Beach all began. Eliakim Wardell, a Boston-born Quaker who first settled this shore area,...
MB Fire Company Images …
Always ready and brave — The Monmouth Beach Fire Company — first organized in 1905 — actually predates the borough by a year. The...
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...
Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge Images
Photos of a shore crossing … Since the first bridge was opened in December 1872, a total of four fixed crossings have connected northern...
Long Branch Hotels: Best Views
Magnificent seashore lodgings from a city’s glory days I’m endlessly fascinated by the magnificent seashore hotels that sprawled along the Long Branch coastline. These...
Some Sea Bright Civics
Forever complicated, Sea Bright — in fact, has two birthdays. On March 20, 1889, voters of Sea Bright (then part of Ocean Township) went...
Channel Club Tower: Shrewsbury’s Sentinel
I grew up literally in its shadow — watching a tower and massive steel and concrete auto garage fill the large riverfront acreage we...
Long Branch Eats …
Photo-essay on city restaurants and bars through the years … Long Branch has always had a good dining spots — places to relax and...
Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Images
A link between two distinct communities … A total of five bridges have connected the boroughs of Sea Bright and Rumson over the past...
High Living in Monmouth Beach
“The Shores” and “The Admiralty” — Oceanfront High-Rises Now Rule the Coast Seeking to increase town ratables — then badly needed to fund a...
MB Commissioners Through the Years
The first borough commissioner I ever knew well was Sidney B. Johnson. No surprise there — he was a Monmouth Beach icon. Those familiar...
MB Cultural Center: Ordeal and Triumph
It has survived fires and floods, withstood decades of storms, salt air and wicked winds. It sat rotting for eight years — unused and...
”Most Powerful Banker in History” Loved Monmouth Beach
George Fisher Baker: Gilded Age Tycoon During the late 19th Century — and probably even today — the 1.6-mille Ocean Avenue section of Monmouth...
“Wooden Palaces” of Monmouth Beach
A look at the town’s spectacular seashore mansions … One of way the wealthy flex is in building big houses. A signature feature of...
