March 1962 Storm - Long Beach Island, New Jersey - Holgate Section
The storm washed away the dunes as the island became a sandbar


Jim, standing near Bay Avenue, the bay in the distance, houses on Jacqueline Avenue to the right and Bonds Coast Guard Station at far left




Looking towards Jacqueline Avenue from the beach, across the partially rebuilt dunes




Jim standing by the ocean on the duneless beach, the Borough of Beach Haven is in the background a mile or so to the north




Looking south down a sand covered and rutted Bay Avenue towards the 'end of the island'




A Bath House on Beach, near Jacqueline that was torn down and never rebuilt

Bath House on Beach


From the Coast Guard Station near the bay, looking over to the houses on Jacqueline Avenue




Jim and Eddie posed in front of a storm damaged amphibious vehicle near Silver Sands Marina, two blocks over from Jacqueline; presumably the one from which several rescuers perished during the height of the storm


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