![]() The Asbury Park Press interviews him, and Nick gets his 15 minutes of fame. My old friend Nick Maat, a member of the Fishing Club, from 14 Heck Avenue, witnesses the pier clubhouse being carried away by a massive wave while he stands on Ocean Avenue soaking wet and jaw agape. The latter storm causes the Delaware River to back up and 4 counties along the shore to be clobbered. ![]() Source: Ocean Grove in Vintage Postcards by Bell and Flynn.īig storms knock out the pier and boardwalk on multiple occasions over the years including 1922, 1927, 1938, 1953, and a huge nor’easter in December 1992. The Embury Avenue pier is also badly damaged. During that viscious storm, the south end of Ocean Grove winds up underwater after 5 days of heavy rain. Eventually it gets wiped out in a huge hurricane in 1938. Some years after that, when the North End is developed into a major recreational compound, a second pier, attached to the North End Hotel Pavilion, is built to attract strollers, fishermen and boats. ![]() The 500 foot pier is destined to become a historic landmark in a historic Jersey Shore town. So he extends the pipeline out about 500 feet from shore and he builds a wooden pier opposite Embury Avenue to provide protection for the pipe.Ī few years later, a better sewer system is devised, and the pier becomes a fishing pier with the Fishing Club receiving a multi-year lease and taking up 97 feet at the end. He writes about the subject in his annual reports, and that year he decides that their primitive sewer pipe system, where the mess is pumped into the ocean, needs to be improved. Elwood Stokes has a public health concern–how to deal with sewage so as to avoid infectious diseases in the campground. Ocean Grove is 21 years old, and the Rev. ![]() Editor (Re-posted from May, 2013 on BF–Part 2 to follow) Fishing in the dark needs nitty gritty meaning full#Click image for full viewīy Paul Goldfinger, MD. Source: “Ocean Grove in Vintage Postcards” by Bell and Flynn. ![]()
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