Six Miles At Sea
Six Miles At Sea
A Pictorial History of Long Beach Island (30th Anniversary Edition)
John Bailey Lloyd
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Expanded, with newly discovered historic photos and a nostalgic cover, this 30th Anniversary Edition is a fitting tribute to the legacy of John Bailey Lloyd.
In its pages you will travel back to Edwardian Beach Haven, discover the origins of Barnegat Lighthouse, and know the fortitude of the men of the U.S. Life-Saving Service. You'll experience nature’s fury — the hurricane of ’44 and the March northeaster of ’62 — and learn how the Island's shifting southern end has changed with a “new inlet,” “old inlet,” and a disappeared Tucker’s Island.
You'll know where bootleggers smuggled alcohol ashore during Prohibition, and delight in the Island’s favorite watering holes “When Beer Was Ten Cents A Glass.” You'll learn about an eccentric Barnegat Light resident and the U.S. Supreme Court.
“In the Days of the Dune Hoppers,” during World War II, a largely forgotten period on the Island, hotels boarded soldiers, the military patrolled beaches on horseback, and oceanside blackouts were mandatory. “Ducks, Guns, and Money on Old Barnegat Bay” explores the era of adventurous aristocratic men drawn to this shore.
You’ll learn about old town names (Beach Arlington, Long Beach City, Peahala, and “Harvey Cedars or Harvest Cedars?”), summers of baseball in Beach Haven and the famous Roger “Doc” Cramer. The Lucy Evelyn, a schooner that was as much an attraction as Barnegat Lighthouse, is fondly remembered.
In this loving history of Long Beach Island, travel the first automobile highways to the Shore — or take the train to one of the grand old hotels! You’ll even learn the origin of that enduring phrase, “Six Miles At Sea.”
Pages: 192
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Dimensions: 8.75” x 10.25” x 0.75"
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The Island of today is strikingly different from that of a century ago but here are images of an innocent and wilder past that cement our present-day bond with this place. Modern-day Shore lovers will find their long-ago counterparts here. These books give us an opportunity to rediscover a unique place at the sea’s edge — a beautiful, sometimes dangerous, more personal LBI — and the people who came to know and love it.
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The late John Bailey Lloyd’s lyrical and pioneering writing about Long Beach Island has been the inspiration for many books about Jersey Shore history. Here is the source — providing a true sense of place. His three elegant companion books explore much of the history of the Shore with a focus on LBI.
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CONTENTS
The Barnegat Lighthouse
Ship on the Beach!
The Old Mansion
The Forty-Two Winters of the U.S.
Life Saving Service
Ducks, Guns, and Money on Old Barnegat Bay
The End of the Golden Age of Gunning
New Inlet and Old Inlet:
The Shifting South End
Holgate: Two Centuries of History
South of Beach Haven
The Oceanic and The Sunset at Barnegat City
John W. Haddock and the U.S. Supreme Court
The Long Beach Club House at Loveladies
The Beach Haven Yacht Club
Edwardian Beach Haven
Harvey Cedars or Harvest Cedars?
Ship Bottom: Gateway to the Island
Brant Beach
Driving "Down the Shore"
Ostendorff's Garage
"Our Boys" — Fifty Years of Baseball
at Beach Haven
Getting Mail Over on the Beach
The Spray Beach Hotel
The Beach Haven House
The Surf City Hotel
Rum Row and the Rumrunners
When Beer Was Ten Cents a Glass
Camp Dune-By-The-Sea
In the Days of the Dune Hoppers
The Hurricane of 1944
The March Storm of 1962
The Lucy Evelyn at Beach Haven, 1948-1971
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“...Years of writing and research have led me to one simple truth: Everyone who ever came to this island — with the possible exception of the shipwrecked — came out of pure enjoyment and returned year after year for the same reason. As you turn these pages you will soon discover how little difference there is between us and all the generations that have come before. We share a happiness that is rare, indeed. That is what Long Beach Island means. It always will.”
— from the Preface
