by BBHistory | Feb 12, 2025 | Love Stories
Written by Carole White Hessels (2019) I was born in the house at 607 LaReine Avenue on November 28, 1944. My parents, Jean and Vincent White, and my grandmother raised me in that house which was built by my grandfather, who worked for Lewis Lumber. My husband John...
by BBHistory | Feb 12, 2025 | Love Stories
Submitted by Debi Unger, November 2019 Evergreen Avenue, February 1961 and October 1969: I have two love stories that involve Bradley Beach. The first one did not end well but produced two children, Anthony and Elizabeth. The second one is still ongoing after 50 years...
by BBHistory | Dec 18, 2023 | Love Stories
My husband and I bought our first house in Bradley Beach in 1999. My granddaughter was 7½ years old at the time. She spent three weeks at our new house that summer with her mother and brother. To this day she says that the Evergreen Avenue beach is her favorite beach...
by BBHistory | Nov 5, 2023 | Love Stories
It was the summer of 1949. Jim Wu was with his family on Newark Avenue in Bradley Beach after graduating from High School. His two nephews, Herbie, six months older, and Freddy, six months younger, were very excited that Vaughn Monroe was coming to Convention Hall in...
by BBHistory | Aug 17, 2023 | Love Stories
Howard Wasserman’s family moved to Bradley Beach in 1953. He attended Bradley Beach Grammar School and Asbury Park High School. When Howard was only 10, he met Billy Rubin and Allan Brown, who quickly became best friends and considered each other family. At that...
by BBHistory | Jan 23, 2021 | Love Stories
Let’s call this “the good, the bad, the crush” and a bit more on Bradley Beach. It all starts at Clinton Place Jr. High (Newark). One of the things that I liked at the school was “canteen dancing” in the gym. It was the same back then; not sure about today’s...
