Under the Boardwalk,
Over the Moon

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...

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...

My granddaughter’s engagement party at our Bradley Beach home will remain forever in our memory. The couple is now happily married and living in Texas.

True love begins in Bradley Beach. If it weren’t for Bradley Beach, Pat and Jim Wu never would have met and begun their 74 year love story.

Fourteen years after they met, Howard and Wendy began dating. They fell in love and two years later got married at the Berkeley Carteret in Asbury Park.

I have been married for 50 years. Lucky me, my wife loves to dance and listen to “oldies but goodies.” And, I still have the old but new and improved moves.

Bobby was so interesting to talk with and he was really cute. I thought he was wonderful! A few weeks later we went on our first real date to see “West Side Story” at the Palace Theater in Bradley Beach.

Lou and I spent days sunbathing on the Brinley Avenue beach that was packed with teens. We would sing along with friends playing guitars or listen to a transistor radio.

We realized that we could always get to the city if we had to but it would be difficult to sell our Bradley Beach house full of memories and try to rent every summer. So here we are.

The 50s were an idyllic romance with boys we loved for a week or so before one or the other of us moved on to the someone sitting on the next blanket.

Before dawn in August 2013, Skyler invited Jessica to go to the beach with him to take some photos of the sunrise. Instead he proposed!

Lampros and Vasaliki Scaltsas, maternal grandparents of Bradley Beach native Eileen Shissias, operated a boardwalk restaurant- the Fourth Avenue Pavilion.