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Stories and portraits of people I have met along the beaches, boardwalks and towns of the Jersey Shore.
Author : Gregory Andrus
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,67 MB
Release : 2023-04-27
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Stories and portraits of people I have met along the beaches, boardwalks and towns of the Jersey Shore.
Author : Gregory Andrus
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2018-04-02
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ISBN : 9780999525821
Real People. Real Stories. The Real Jersey Shore.
Author : Russell Roberts
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813519968
Summer visitors and year-round residents alike are sure to discover Jersey Shore lore that captures their fancy in this entertaining account of the people, places, and events that have shaped New Jersey's famous shoreline. From ghost stories and the comic misadventures of the early Miss America Pageant to the dynamics of the changing coastline and poignant portraits of traditional crafts workers, Russell Roberts and Rich Youmans have chronicled the fascinating history and heritage of the New Jersey Shore. In this book you'll meet the luminaries who've frequented the Shore--from President Ulysses Grant strolling through Long Branch to Grace Kelly learning to surf at Ocean City. You'll find out why the boardwalk was invented, and also why early ones were removable. Join the authors as they pay tribute to the Shore's forgotten inventors, including Simon Lake, who some consider the true father of the modern submarine. Relive the Jersey Shore's role in wartime and learn the story of the mysterious Nazi submarine sunken off of Point Pleasant Beach. Read about Lucy the Margate Elephant, as a well as her two long-gone "cousins." Discover all this and more as Roberts and Youmans explore the vast uncharted heritage of the New Jersey Shore.
Author : Dick LaBonté
Publisher : Valente Publishing House Incorporated
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780963290649
This coffee table book features more than one hundred sixty paintings, vignettes, and portraits by the Jersey Shore's premier, neo-primitive folk artist, Dick LaBonte. Here are all of LaBonte's nostalgic paintings of turn-of-the-century and present day life at the Jersey Shore featuring Bay Head, Mantoloking, Point Pleasant Beach, Barnegat Bay, Spring Lake, Sea Girt, Manasquan, Sea Bright, and more locations--plus many other scenes taking place in America or the artist's imagination. Fans who have seen only a few of LaBonte's paintings in the past will be amazed at the scope of his body of work presented in this book and realize all the beauty and fun they've been missing! Charming and informative descriptions of each image by the artist, a biography, plus a foreword and introduction to the paintings will further your understanding of LaBonte's art and life. LaBonte's text is also rich with historical facts about the Jeresy Shore and the locations he paints.
Author : Gregory Andrus
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2022-04-15
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ISBN : 9780578291116
Interviews and Portraits of over 50 lifeguards from 20 beach patrols along the Jersey Shore.
Author : Helen-Chantal Pike
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,13 MB
Release : 2005-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813540870
Winner of the 2005 New Jersey Author Award for Scholarly Non-Fiction from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Long before Bruce Springsteen picked up a guitar; before Danny DeVito drove a taxi; before Jack Nicholson flew over the cuckoo's nest, Asbury Park was a seashore Shangri-La filled with shimmering odes to civic greatness, world-renowned baby parades, temples of retail, and atmospheric movie palaces. It was a magnet for tourists, a summer vacation mecca-to some degree New Jersey's own Coney Island. In Asbury Park's Glory Days, award-winning author Helen-Chantal Pike chronicles the city's heyday-the ninety-year period between 1890 and 1980. Pike illuminates the historical conditions contributing to the town's cycle of booms and recessions. She investigates the factors that influenced these peaks, such as location, lodging, dining, nightlife, merchandising, and immigration, and how and why millions of people spent their leisure time within this one-square-mile boundary on the northern coast of the state. Pike also includes an epilogue describing recent attempts to resurrect this once-vibrant city.
Author : Richard G. Fernicola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 149302325X
Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws--comes a reissue of the classic Lyons Press account and investigation. In July 1916, a time when World War I loomed over America and New York City was in the midst of a deadly polio epidemic, the tri-state area sought relief at the Jersey shore. The Atlantic’s refreshing waters proved to be utterly inhospitable, however. In just twelve days, four swimmers were violently and fatally mauled in separate shark attacks, and a fifth swimmer escaped an attack within inches of his life. In this thoroughly researched account, Dr. Richard Fernicola, the leading expert on the attacks, presents a riveting portrait, investigation, and scientific analysis of the terrifying days against the colorful backdrop of America in 1916 in Twelve Days of Terror.
Author : Patrick Smith
Publisher : Valente Publishing House Incorporated
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780963290656
This limited-edition, oversized volume features more than 200 color photographs of Spring Lake's Victorian era, a time of decorum and manners, grand hotels and magnificent mansions, and parasol strolls along the boardwalk. Over three years in the making, each of Spring Lake, Revisited's images have been carefully preserved and digitally enhanced to reveal the ultimate view into Spring Lake's glorious past. Author Patrick Smith (grandson of William Schreck, the one-time owner of The Sandpiper Hotel) presents his grandfather's collection of postcards and photographs with informative descriptions of each image that bring Spring Lake's past to life while revealing many details that are telling of the era. Smith's critical study of the photographs dissects the images as though they were paintings, pointing out all of the details and real life happenings of 100 years ago that reveal the humanity of the time. Most of the scenes you'll view in this beautiful, haunting folio are now gone forever. Its eight chapters include: Panoramic Views of the Town On the Beach and Boardwalk A Visual Walking Tour Around the Lake The Grand Hotels Churches and Houses of Worship Public Buildings and Private Clubs Mansions and Other Private Homes Street Scenes Around Town Spring Lake, Revisited is a visual time machine that will take you back to one of the Jersey Shore's most enchanting towns and eras. It is a window into the past, a vision now preserved for future generations. Gorgeously printed and bound to the highest standards, Spring Lake, Revisited is a book that you, your family, and friends will treasure for years to come. A Luxurious Collector's Edition, Beautifully Printed And Bound, With Many FeaturesNot Found In Most Books Oversized (12 1/4" x 12 1/4") to enhance your reading and viewing experience Luxurious, raised embossed cover Precious 22 kt gold type and accents, stamped on the covers and spine, adding distinctive, classic beauty Superbly printed on archival qu
Author : Larry Sultan
Publisher : Mack
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Families
ISBN : 9781910164785
First published in 1992 to wide critical acclaim, Pictures From Home is Larry Sultan's pendant to his parents. Sultan returned home to Southern California periodically in the 1980s and the decade-long sequence moves between registers, combining contemporary photographs with film stills from home movies, fragments of conversation, Sultan's own writings and other memorabilia. The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous. Simultaneously the distance usually maintained between the photographer and his subjects also slips in an exchange of dialogue and emotion that is unique to this work. Significantly increasing the page count of the original book, this MACK design of Pictures From Home clarifies the multiplicity of voices - both textual and pictorial - in order to afford a fresh perspective of this seminal body of work -- Provided by the publisher.
Author : Yates Francesca
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2008-08
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ISBN : 9781885435903