{"id":1039,"date":"2013-11-05T05:32:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T05:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=1039"},"modified":"2013-11-05T05:32:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T05:32:22","slug":"view-of-morgan-beach-area-circa-late-1920s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgans-people-places\/places\/view-of-morgan-beach-area-circa-late-1920s\/","title":{"rendered":"View of Morgan Beach Area, Circa Late 1920s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Memories \u2013 View of Morgan Beach Area, Circa Late 1920s<\/h3>\n
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Morgan Beach Area Taken from Morgan Heights Circa Late 1920s Featuring Cady\u2019s House of Seafood and Lockwood\u2019s Bait Store. Photo Courtesy of Robert L. Sorenson, Sr.<\/p><\/div>\n

This text accompanying the above image is still a work in progress.\u00a0 I just received this photo from my long time ago Morgan neighbor, Pam, and wanted to post it right away.\u00a0 I\u2019ll finish this write up at a later time so please check back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly, let me give Pam a HUGE thank you for this amazing photo provided by (taken by?) her father, Robert L. Sorenson, Sr.\u00a0 I\u2019m told it is circa the 1920s.\u00a0 Based on what I know about this specific area, it is no earlier than mid 1926 as that is when Cady\u2019s House of Seafood (the big white building on the left) opened.\u00a0 The road in front of Cady\u2019s<\/a> opened in July the year before.\u00a0 Depending on when this photo actually was taken, this road was either designated at State Highway Route 4 or, sometime after 1927 (I think) State Highway Route 35.\u00a0 Before this incline was filled in with dirt, the Jersey Central Traction Company<\/a> had their trestle<\/a> in this spot.\u00a0 Based on the growth of brush and the erosion on the incline, the incline had been there for a few years.<\/p>\n

On the far right we see the Henry Luhrs\u2019 Morgan Yacht Basin (subject of a future page).\u00a0 Between them is the Morgan Fishery Restaurant and Lockwood\u2019s Bait.\u00a0 Two of my great grandfathers used to sell bait to Mr. Lockwood during the summer according to my Mother.<\/p>\n

Paul, Pam\u2019s neighbor, saw the word \u201cGolf\u201d on the building in front of Lockwood\u2019s Bait store and wrote, \u201cWhy would there be a golf shop there? Answer: Up until 1928 there was a 400 acre shore front golf and country club in Lawrence Harbor. Clark Gable, Guy Lombardo, the Prince of Wales and the Vanderbilts played golf and partied there.\u00a0 I could be wrong, but, it seems to make perfect sense to have a golf shop near a prominent golf course. What\u2019s amazing is the amount of real estate on the opposite side of the creek. Could you imagine if Hurricane Sandy had hit this area back then? There\u2019d be nothing left down there<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 Alycia \u2013 please chime in here as you are the expert on Laurence Harbor.\u00a0 This perhaps could give us a clue about when the photo might have been, i.e., no later than 1928.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t see the bridge over Cheesequake Creek because it was the predecessor bridge to the current Route 35 Bridge and was a double leaf bascule draw bridge which, by its nature, was not very tall.\u00a0 You can see an image of it if you click here<\/a>. \u00a0That bridge was replaced in the early 1940s by the current bridge<\/a> so this photo was taken sometime after 1926 and before 1941-ish.<\/p>\n

You can see some of the bungalows on Morgan Beach starting with Hock\u2019s bungalow to the right of the Cady\u2019s sign.\u00a0 Someday I\u2019ll write that page about the Morgan Beach Bungalows.<\/p>\n

Compare the above image to this one from about 1910<\/a>, also taken from what was then known as Morgan Heights.<\/p>\n

Awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morgan Memories \u2013 View of Morgan Beach Area, Circa Late 1920s This text accompanying the above image is still a work in progress.\u00a0 I just received this photo from my long time ago Morgan neighbor, Pam, and wanted to post it right away.\u00a0 I\u2019ll finish this write up at a later time so please check […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":979,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1039","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1039\/revisions\/1041"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}