MB Bathing Pavilion Images …
The Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion (MBBP) — the borough’s only public beach club — has operated for over a century of summers. I’ve favored...
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Looking at the LBPD
Long Branch Police Department service dates back to a Civil War Hero … Like most law enforcement agencies — they’ve been both admired and...
Monmouth Beach: Rich & Famous Era
Gilded Age Glory at the Jersey Shore … By the 1880s — thanks to the advent of a shore-area railroad system and a train...
Monmouth Beach Club — 100 Years of Images
The Monmouth Beach Bath & Tennis Club (known popularly as “The Club”) rests along Ocean Avenue. This fabulous Atlantic coast building is the definitive...
Monmouth Beach Clubhouse Hotel Images …
Monmouth Beach’s Top Hat … It’s most likely the start spot for all Monmouth Beach beginnings. Eliakim Wardell, a Boston-born Quaker who first settled...
Long Branch City Hall History
The location has been the focal point of municipal government for more than 130 years now. Long Branch — during its rich and storied...
Long Branch Pier Fire — Back to ’87
Lost city summers … Long Branch has a lengthy and storied history as a beach resort destination, with its iconic pier playing a central...
Galilee Fishermen: “Harvesting the Sea”
Today, few people remember and even fewer know that Monmouth Beach was once a thriving commercial fishing village. While many local anglers still regularly...
’24 Hurricane Season: Be Ready
Experts Predict “Extremely Active” Storm Season … Living at the shore comes at a price. Wise lifelong residents know this. Natural forces of wind...
Pier Dancing — City Summers Past
It was the “Great Depression” and Long Branch tried to shuffle by. Back some 90 summers ago. Today, nearly no one remembers the large...
“The Reservation” — Long Branch’s Cottage Colony
By Michael Sheehan Visitors to Seven Presidents Oceanfront Park in Long Branch may notice a large house standing alone on the grounds of the...
Sea Bright Education History
Learning in the Past … The first-ever Sea Bright public school was opened in 1874, according to the Long Branch Daily Record. The town’s...
Green Inn — Galilee Glamor
The 19th century moneyed founders of “Monmouth Beach” were determined to avoid the “hotel crowd” scene that made up most of Long Branch and...
MB Borough Hall — History & Photos
The stately building on the southwest corner of Beach Road and Willow Avenue — the Monmouth Beach Borough Hall — has been the heartbeat...
Images of Sandy Hook Lighthouse …
Nearly 260 years of service … It’s the Jersey Shore’s noblest outpost. At once majestic and mighty, it’s a tribute to commerce and continuity...
Sea Bright: Boro of Beach Clubs
It’s the ultimate beach town. Folks have been coming to Sea Bright for sea, sand and sun for over a century. Young and old,...
