Eighteen Miles of History on Long Beach Island

by John Bailey Lloyd

The first of three elegant companion books about Long Beach Island by John Bailey Lloyd, ''this loving history'' (as the first edition was described by The Record of Hackensack) brings the shore's past to life. Filled with historic photographs, old engravings, maps and illustrations carefully reproduced and printed, this hardcover captures a sense of the Jersey Shore that residents and visitors long for today.
Readers will rediscover the lost resort of Sea Haven and Tucker's Island in this book, they will ride the Tuckerton and Long Beach railroads to the new resort of Beach Haven, stay in its delightful and airy seashore hotels, and stroll its elegant boardwalk. They will experience the fear of the legendary 1916 shark attacks, visit the early gunning and yacht clubs, and watch pound fishermen haul in boats brimming with fish caught just off the beach. John Bailey Lloyd's wonderful writing style, combined with extraordinary old images, will fill readers with a true sense of place.

Genres: Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

Published August 17, 1994

About the author

John Bailey Lloyd was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and had been on Long Beach Island since 1942, when he was ten years old--in time to see old landmarks like the boardwalk, the Engleside Hotel and the vast emptiness of the Island as it once was.
After serving in the Coast Guard, he spent nearly every summer here; in 1977 he and his wife Jeanette, and their two sons became permanent residents in the family's Beach Haven summer home, a three-story Victorian built in 1879.

A graduate of Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland, Mr. Lloyd held a Master's Degree in English from the University of Michigan and a Master's in library science from Rutgers University. He worked as a reference librarian in the Ocean County Library system.

Mr. Lloyd was known as "Long Beach Island's historian" for his books, his weekly summer talks at the historical museum in Beach Haven and for his historical newspaper articles.

Reviews

[shruti]

This was my first history book about LBI, and I checked out a bunch more after that. It was neat learning about the place where I live--the fact that it had a lot of history to learn. Lots of pictures but also great essays to tie everything together.

[Nadine in NY Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're interested in the history of Long Beach Island, this is a GREAT book! (And it probably has little appeal if you've never been to Long Beach Island.)