That does not look like a fun vacation. 60K in 1.6 sq miles. No thanks, I'll stay home.
Posted on 06/14/2015 6:38:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Oh nonsense. Gambling exists only in Atlantic City. There are great beaches and shore towns. If you didn’t get down to the Wildwoods and Victorian Cape May you haven’t seen the shore.
I’ve been to all the South Jersey beaches - many, many times when I was younger and lived in NJ and PA. I wouldn’t go back. There are many east coast and Gulf beaches that are SO much nicer and much less crowded.
Actually, I much prefer freshwater lakes and mountains to the beach, anyhow.
I’m glad you enjoy them.
That does not look like a fun vacation. 60K in 1.6 sq miles. No thanks, I'll stay home.
Plus you have to pay to even access the beach. Last time I was there (been well over a decade now), I stayed on the boardwalk, which wasn’t as crowded surprisingly.
Bennies,go home!
Then don’t go back. There is no comparison between a NJ beach and the Gulf Coast of Florida, two entirely different worlds. However we all can’t get up in the morning and go to Sri Lanka. So for those within travel distance of the Jersey Shore I highly recommend Cape May. In any event gambling has had no effect outside of Atlantic City. The Jersey Shore is still a great family tradition.
There was another great bar right on the beach in Belmar. I can picture it but cannot remember the name. That was our daytime spot.
Had a lot of friends who went to RBC. Saw Bruce at the old Carlton theater before the Born to Run tour and just after. Hung out with Clarence at the old Lock Stock and Barrel with Stormin' Norman (Joyful Noyz) and at Melody Corner in Sea Bright when he'd play with The Bank Street Blues Band.
There was nothing like the jersey shore in the mid-late 70's.
I wish I could read this headline:
American President temporarily closes country to incoming traffic; says it has reached capacity
Carlton Theater just before Born to Run - one of the most epic shows I have ever seen. I was there. Life changing actually. The energy in that building was something that I don’t think could ever happen at any show ever again.
Sea Bright is not the same without the P House and the Oceanfront.
Nobody could party like us. I went away to college, and I couldn’t believe what idiots rank amateurs they were.
We probably have mutual friends, if we play the name game ...
Montego Bay
Sat in the balcony on those couches for each show. Do remember them? It was epic, and sitting there you just knew that this was something beyond special that everyone in that small theater would remember forever. It was like a reunion and I remember feeling like I knew most of the people in the crowd. It was one big party.
I still get chills thinking about big man's solo in Jungleland, and the E Street version of It's My Life with Bruce leading in with a story about his relationship with his father. Then, when you were completely drained, and you thought the show was over, he brings out the Miami Horns for more. Memory fades, but I think he finished with some Mitch Ryder tunes.
I spent a lot of time in Sea Bright and our first stop would be P-House to sit in those rocking chairs on the deck. Then over to the Oceanfront before heading to Melody Corner. Sometimes we'd hit The Jetty as well, and Trade Winds was always a solid late night performer. If that wasn't enough, we'd head to Asbury (Wonder Bar, Stone Pony, others) before they shut down at 3 am. Then it was back to the Inkwell or The Windmill to eat. The goal was always to get home before sunrise.
Same thing for me in college. I went to school in California after a year at PSU and a couple years staying local. They had no idea. They didn't know Springsteen yet and everyone was working hard at being "mellow." My best friends on the west coast ended up being a few guys from Chatham. Go figure.
I'm a few years older than you, but I was friends with some girls in the class of '76: Debbie Gamma, Dossie Trotter, Suzy Arnone. Most of the guys I knew graduated earlier. Knew Dave Bauer through mutual friends, and his wife, which made 9-11 even worse.
Maybe, but I think it was Regi's, or something close. It was busy during the day but not so much at night. Everyone was at D'jais or had headed down to The Royal Manor, Jimmy Byrne's, or the Osprey.
The drinking age was 18 for a short time and it was nuts. Thinking back, I'm glad I'm alive.
As I recall, you RBC guys liked Manning’s Jetty, right?
Donovan’s Reef was the biggie for RBC. I’m from Deal originally, so a lot of my time out was down south from Sea Bright. In those days I could be found anywhere from Sea Girt to Sea Bright. Crazy times - makes me think of the comrades we’ve lost. Lost more than a few, some pretty close. I’m lucky to have made it past those days.
I used to take people to Jimmy Byrne's just to see their reaction to the place. Wall to wall people singing "God Bless America" inside the bar on the 4th of July complete with sparklers....nothing like it.
Had a friend drive us into Deal Lake in his VW bug trying to make closing time in Asbury. We got out through the windshield. I went to shore and had some guy from West End give stash me in his car as the cops were coming. My friend was still with the car trying to remove the plates. He didn't get sober and wouldn't listen so we left. Lucky for him the courts were very different back then.
Rumson was similar with the parties and some of the homes were staggering. The parents never seemed to have a problem with excessive underage drinking and the indoor pools were always a plus. Most of the Rumson kids stayed local for school but many went to RBC, CBA and a variety of prep schools - Peddie, Lawrenceville, Dobbs Ferry. I used to laugh at Lacrosse but now everyone plays it including my kids.
I used to feel for you guys wearing those uniforms when it was 90 outside. I see where RBC is now recruiting football players and consistently has one of the best teams in the state. Times have changed.
“Steamers and Corn-$2” was on the chalkboard outside of a restaurant I worked one summer in 1976.
RBC was Parochial A State Champ in 76.
Deal kids could and did go whatever bar or club we wanted, especially dives that we would just kind of take over. So we had some street smarts being next to Newark by the sea and all.
There was one total dive, JP Maloney’s, which was really close to the Deal Lake (Meeting Across the River?). They never cleaned the floors, just threw sawdust down. It was often the last stop many times in half a blackout. So many times the next day we would look at each other and say, “Did we go to Maloney’s last night?”
It was such a running joke that it became a pretty popular spot. A couple of times I brought the daughter of a then sitting NJ Supreme Court Justice there. Many years later, the son of another Judge who we brought there tried the Biegenwald case
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/09/nyregion/five-killings-a-fearful-silence-is-broken.html
During testimony, Biegenwald said he often went to JP Maloneys.
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