“Good Cop” — City Patrolman Charlie Phillips
In an age when “the good cop” is more important than ever — I’d like to remember one of “Long Branch’s finest.” As Long...
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Find a Monmouth Beach Connection
Try to Locate You or Yours (click on the image to enlarge) … This photo was taken in 1974 on Raccoon Island for the...
“Super Banker” 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...
Peter Dawkins: A Call to Duty
(From an interview I conducted with General Dawkins in 2010) What can you say about Peter Dawkins? He’s a man with one of the...
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...
“Red” Blaik: Gridiron Leadership
Talk about a leadership legacy — when you have Douglass MacArthur for a mentor and Vince Lombardi for a protégé, you’re bound to be...
Pier Dancing and the Depression
It was the “Great Depression” times and Long Branch tried to shuffle by — back some 90 summers ago. Today few, if any, city...
Long Branch Pier Fire — 39 Years Ago
Lost city summers … Long Branch has a storied history as a beach resort, with its iconic pier playing a central role in that...
Elmer Fudd in Monmouth Beach
In the course of my research of Monmouth Beach history, I’m often amazed by the caliber of people who have called this small seashore...
The Trials of Dr. Carl Coppolino
60 years ago … While exploring my physician-father’s medical book collection at our home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice...
Sea Bright … Shore Shots
Few seashore communities offer a richer blending of sand and sea. Technically, Sea Bright is a barrier beach — narrow and long. This land...
Galilee Fishing: “Harvesting the Sea”
Today, few people know or remember that Monmouth Beach was once a thriving commercial fishing village. While many local anglers still regularly cast off...
About My Research Efforts …
For My Readers … As I continue to develop my website — mainly though posting historic local photos backed with facts — I’ve reached...
Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Doctor
Dr. Newell also represented our area in the US Congress I’m a Lincoln man. I’ve probably read more than 50 books about the nation’s...
History of Shore Regional High School
The concept of a NJ shore-area high school was discussed as early as 1955. In the following years, four local towns — Monmouth Beach,...
Booth-Full of Brothers
On Long Branch and a presidential assassin … John Wilkes Booth’s place in American infamy is secure forever. History records that JWB certainly visited...
