Rare Antique American Asbury Park Beach Stunt Snapshot Photo New Jersey C.1920 for Sale

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Rare Antique American Asbury Park Beach Stunt Snapshot Photo New Jersey C.1920 For Sale

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Rare Antique American Asbury Park Beach Stunt Snapshot Photo New Jersey C.1920:
$29.74

UP FOR SALE:Rare Antique American Asbury Park Beach Stunt Snapshot Photo! New Jersey! C.1920
Fantastic Antique Vintage American Snapshot Photograph!
Men Performing Balancing Stunt on the Beach!
Photographer: De Tartas (Stamp on back)Location: Asbury Park, New JerseyDate: C.1920\'s
Handsome Fellows! Beach Folk All About in Background!
INFO:
\"A seaside community, Asbury Park is located on New Jersey\'s central coast. Developed in 1871 as a residential resort by New York brush manufacturer James A. Bradley, the city was named for Francis Asbury, the first American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States.[33][34][35] The founding of Ocean Grove in 1869, a Methodist camp meeting to the south, encouraged the development of Asbury Park and led to its being a \"dry town.\"
Bradley was active in the development of much of the city\'s infrastructure, and despite his preference for gas light, he allowed the Atlantic Coast Electric Company (precursor to today\'s Jersey Central Power & Light Co.) to offer electric service.[36] Along the waterfront, Bradley installed the Asbury Park Boardwalk, an orchestra pavilion, public changing rooms, and a pier at the south end of that boardwalk. Such success attracted other businessmen. In 1888, Ernest Schnitzler built the Palace Merry-Go-Round on the southwest corner of Lake Avenue and Kingsley Street, the cornerstone of what would become the Palace Amusements complex; other attractions followed.[37] During these early decades in Asbury Park, a number of grand hotels were built, including the Plaza Hotel.[38]
Uriah White, an Asbury Park pioneer, installed the first artesian well water system.[39] As many as 600,000 people a year vacationed in Asbury Park during the summer season in the early years, riding the New York and Long Branch Railroad from New York City and Philadelphia to enjoy the mile-and-a-quarter stretch of oceanfront Asbury Park.[39] By 1912, The New York Times estimated that the summer population could reach 200,000.[40]
The country by the sea destination experienced several key periods of popularity. The first notable era was the 1890s, marked by a housing growth, examples of which can still be found today in a full range of Victorian architecture. Coinciding with the nationwide trend in retail shopping, Asbury Park\'s downtown flourished during this period and well into the 20th century.
n the 1920s, Paramount Theatre and Convention Hall complex, the Casino Arena and Carousel House, and two handsome red-brick pavilions were built in the Asbury Boardwalk area. Beaux Arts architect Warren Whitney of New York was the designer. He had also been hired to design the Berkeley-Carteret Hotel located diagonally across from the theater and hall. At the same time, Asbury Park constructed a state-of-the-art high school overlooking Deal Lake.
On September 8, 1934, the wreck of the ocean liner SS Morro Castle, which caught fire and burned, beached itself near the city just yards away from the Asbury Park Convention Hall; the city capitalized on the event, turning the wreck into a tourist attraction.[41]
In 1935, the newly founded Securities and Exchange Commission called Asbury Park\'s Mayor Clarence F. Hetrick to testify about $6 million in \"beach improvement bonds\" that had gone into default. At the same time, the SEC also inquired about rental rates on the beach front and why the mayor reduced the lease of a bathhouse from $85,000 to $40,000, among many other discrepancies that could have offset debt.[42] The interests of Asbury Park\'s bond investors led Senator Frank Durand (Monmouth County) to add a last-minute \"Beach Commission\" amendment to a municipal debt bill in the New Jersey legislature. When the bill became law, it ceded control of the Asbury Park beach to Governor Harold Hoffman and a governor\'s commission.[43][44] The city of Asbury Park sued to restore control of the beach to the municipal council, but the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals (until 1947, the state\'s highest court) upheld the validity of the law in 1937.[45] When Durand pressed New Jersey\'s legislature to extend the state\'s control of Asbury Park\'s beach in 1938, the lower house staged a walk out and the Senate soon adjourned, a disruption that also prevented a vote for funding New Jersey\'s participation in the 1939 New York World\'s Fair.[46][47] In December 1938, the court returned control of the beach to the municipal council under the proviso that a bond repayment agreement was created; Asbury Park was the only beach in New Jersey affected by the Beach Commission law.\" (WIKI)
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