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Margaret Lamb's premature child gets milk delivery, 1942

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 Asbury Park Press 3 Mar 1942

Asbury Park 2019

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Picture Perfect, Route 37 1995

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Irene Durkin, Safe Boating Queen of 1962

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 Asbury Park Press 2 Jul 1962

Fire at William Marlatt's Lakehurst home, 1942

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 Asbury Park Press 3 Mar 1942

Closed diner Route 9, Lacey 2020

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Fire at the Keswick Colony, 1942

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 Asbury Park Press 3 Mar 1942

Wonder Bar, Asbury 2019

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Quilting Possibilities, Forked River, 2011

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Abandoned Brake specialist, Route 9, Bayville 2020

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AS Beck Shoes, Ocean County Mall 1986

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Newman Building, Route 9 Bayville 2020

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Veterans Memorial school 1976

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Steve Johnson goes to jail, 1967

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 Asbury Park Press 22 Mar 1967

Selling ice cream to people stuck in shore traffic, 1972

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John and Steve Brick Dinettes, 1995

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Shoppers in Brick Plaza, 1976

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Place on Route 9 in Lanoka selling for some reason both plants and beer, 2020

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Mrs. Gatch in accident at corner of Windsor and Coolidge, 1967

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 Asbury Park Press 4 May 1967

Wonder Bar, Asbury Park 2016

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Thom McCan, Ocean County Mall, 1986

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Planned demolition of Laurel in the Pines, Lakewood

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 Asbury Park Press 13 Apr 1967

Miriam Evans and Mary Jane Rogers at 1955 Book Fair

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Surprise Party at Alligator Inn, 1952

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 Asbury Park Press 20 Jun 1952

John DeBow obit 1942

 Lakewood Citizen, Friday June 19,1942: "John T DeBow, 73, a life long resident of Jackson's Mills died at his home Sunday morning after a long illness. He was born in Davisville, near New Egypt, the son of Thomas and Phoebe Hankins DeBow. Mr DeBow was a member of the Daughters of Liberty lodge, Pride of Charter Oak III; and the Jr OUAM Charter Oak Council. Surviving are his wife, Mrs Ethel Hendrickson DeBow; three sons, Glenn A and Bertram, both of Lakewood and Daniel V DeBow, Trenton; a sister, Mrs Jennie Loveland, Beach Haven and five grandchildren. Funeral service was held on Wednesday afternoon at the Harmony Methodist Church, with the Rev William B Magsam, pastor of the church officiating. Burial was in the Harmony Cemetery". 

Lagoon on Starboard Rd, Brick, 1976

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Abandoned gas station, Bass River, 2009

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Construction of juvenile detention center on Sunset Ave, Toms River, 1967

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Walter Galati charged with auto theft, 1944

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 Asbury Park Press 22 Feb 1944

Point Pleasant Beach kids in simulated spacecraft, 1967

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 Asbury Park Press 22 Mar 1967

Fred Craft 'learns his lesson' after arson, 1967

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 Asbury Park Press 19 Jan 1967

Tidbit Alley, Ocean County Mall, 1986

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Real Pizza (no longer here, now it's the site of the Popeyes restaurant)

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Biagio's restaurant, Route 9, Lacey 2020

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Question for my visitors

 Do you guys prefer the newspaper articles, obits and deaths and such? Or the photographs of bygone places? 

Abandoned Buildings in Bass River, 2009

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Cedar -Mar marina, near the Mathis bridge in Toms River, 1966

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Point View Road, Brick, 1976

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Traffic on Route 35, 1972

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Herbert Farm, Manalapan, 1968

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