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...
by BBHistory | Dec 10, 2020 | Love Stories
I met a Bradley Beach boy on July 24, 1963. I am a Neptune City girl and I met Bobby Flood as he walked past my house that summer evening. He was on his way to pick up Nadine for a date. I stopped him to ask if could attend a birthday party we were giving Nadine and a...
by BBHistory | Jun 5, 2020 | Love Stories
The Summer of ’62 –– we listened to “Surfer Girl” by The Beach Boys, “California Dreamin’” by The Mammas & The Poppas, and “Sherry” by The Four Seasons. I was lucky to be sent to Aunt Minnie Rice on Fourth Avenue for a week at the shore....
