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....
by BBHistory | Apr 25, 2020 | Love Stories
My grandparents discovered Bradley Beach in 1912. They kept coming back every summer from Newark. In 1950, my grandmother decided she wanted to live in Bradley Beach full time so they bought the house on Evergreen Avenue. Sadly, my grandmother died the day the house...
by BBHistory | Mar 14, 2020 | Love Stories
No, I didn’t marry a man I met in Bradley Beach. I couldn’t have met him here, because he came from Trenton and Trenton went to Belmar. I did, however, meet a lot of boyfriends in Bradley that I didn’t marry. To be in high school and summer in Bradley Beach meant boys...
by BBHistory | Feb 24, 2020 | Love Stories
Jessica and Skyler Fox got engaged in Bradley Beach at sunrise in August of 2013. They spend time at her parents’ shore house in Bradley Beach each summer. On that particular weekend, they were there along with her parents, brother, sister-in-law, and niece....
