Who said nobody goes to the Jersey shore in January? That’s when the locals can finally enjoy an uncrowded beach!
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January 7, 2012
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Posted by Josy under beach, clouds, ocean, Ocean Grove, People, photography, sand, sky, water[5] Comments
January 7, 2012 at 2:00 pm
It’s nice to see this again. As a draftee at Ft Monmouth in 1961, it meant the world to me.
January 8, 2012 at 10:19 am
Thanks for reminding me— that’s another thing I should cover at some point: I’m told that that Fort Monmouth is closed now. They’ve taken down the big white geosphere satellite covers in Oceanport/ Little Silver and everything.
They kept saying they were going to do it, but… I don’t know, it always seemed so unbelievable and far in the future.
I have yet to really investigate this, but Fort Monmouth was important in my youth, too.
Thank you for your support!
January 10, 2012 at 1:22 am
Yeah, it’s closed. My mom worked there for many years, and would probably still be working there if not for the closing. But she’s sanguine about it–she had been getting ready to retire anyway, and this just provides a bit of an external nudge. For the moment, it seems certain functions are in transition, and she’s still working in much the same capacity that she had been, just not at that location.
The closing is quite a blow to the area, though. First the collapse of Bell Labs/Lucent (where my father worked) and now the closing of the fort mean a huge, huge loss of jobs and economic activity here.
January 10, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Was it a Monmouth Daily Photo that showed the reflection in a puddle of a tower from the old Deal Test Site? I’d like to see the photo again. The site belonged to the Army in 1962 when I was stationed there, but it belonged to AT&T in the early days of ship-to-shore speech transmission. I think that AT&T has recently removed a vast store of historical material from the website.
January 12, 2012 at 12:08 am
I aim to please, though:
http://monmouthdailyphoto.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/a-history/