Jersey Shore

Where does your state rank?

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I am from New Jersey. New Jersey is ranked 48th in this poll. At least we beat out Mississippi, Alabama, and the District of Columbia! Obviously these people have never experienced a sunset at the Jersey shore, wandered along the...

Image of the Day

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“One Win Choice”  Seaside Heights, New Jersey, 1978 Source: Library of Congress...

Best Shore Towns in New Jersey

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Here are the top ten, according to NewJersey.com: Cape May Harvey Cedars Manasquan Beach Haven Ocean City Bradley Beach Cape May Point Surf City Ship Bottom Island Beach State Park Here is my ranking (I’ve been to just about every...

Jersey Girls

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I am reading Mark Lender’s and Garry Stone’s outstanding book Fatal Sunday: George Washington, the Monmouth Campaign, and the Politics of Battle (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016).  In 2017, the book was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize. In the...

Asbury Park in November

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Reporter Emily Wax-Thibodeaux took her five-year-olds to Springsteen’s old haunt on the Jersey story.  She tells about the visit in a piece at the Washington Post.  Here is a taste: The Convention Hall’s Grand Arcade, which is listed on the...

Chinatown at the Jersey Shore

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I am always a sucker for a good story from New Jersey shore history.  Over at Atlas Obscura, Eveline Chao tells the story of how Chinese immigrants living in New York formed a neighborhood at Bradley Beach.  This one hit home...

Chris Christie’s Sports Talk Radio Debut

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Chris Christie is being considered as a replacement for Mike Francesa on WFAN, the original (and best) sports talk radio show in the country.  (Francesa is leaving the show soon.  Let’s home he reconnects with his old partner Chris “Mad...

Bruce Shows Up in Wildwood!

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Warning:  This is a total Jersey boy post. Bruce Springsteen was just hanging out and walking the boardwalk in Wildwood this weekend. This is from the Ocean City Patch: The “Boss” is back. Well, actually, he never left. Bruce Springsteen, who...

Atlantic City in 1919

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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTxc03FSxto&w=560&h=315] If you like this video I also recommend Bryant Simon’s Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America. And then there is this: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2TmSB8ccLY&w=560&h=315]...

The Morro Castle Disaster

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I have always been fascinated by the images from the Morro Castle disaster. It happened off the coast of Asbury Park, NJ on September 8, 1934. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Aq-Xz1WeEM&w=560&h=315]...

Happy Easter!

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We are heading to Easter Break here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.  See you on Monday. In the meantime, enjoy this historic post card from Atlantic City:...