Point Pleasant/Manasquan [Part 12 - The Spectacular History of the New Jersey Shore]

[@Yorkie285]

Best Striped Bass fishing ever!

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

👍

[@postalfnj]

I grew up in Point Pleasant Boro on Jayrob Ct,but moved to Florida in 1983.Nice place to grow up

[@SlickWilly79]

Woody the talking tree, Cici’s pizza, Fat Boys riding the train… Grew up 80’s in Point Pleasant, I consider myself the luckiest man alive to come from such a beautiful, wholesome place. Proper people acting properly, and still hanging on to it today

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

Awesome SlickWilly! I would consider you pretty darn lucky also 🙂🙃🏖

[@ralphruocco3013]

80 % of my life was spent in Pt. Pleasant Beach and the Jersey Shore. Left in 2019. Great Memories !

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

Some guys have all the luck! 🙂👍

[@ralphruocco3013]

@@historyofthejerseyshore I'd rather be lucky than good !

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

@@ralphruocco3013 😄

[@craighalbert2248]

My family owned and operated the Char-Broil across from Martell's for many years was a fabulous place.

[@tomd7536]

I loved that place! And I think about it often.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

I remember the Char-broil. Great place!

[@brianbissey7279]

What years ? My father Larry Bissey and his friend James Wolfesburger ran the char-broil in the late 70s early 80s

[@craighalbert2248]

@@brianbissey7279 best of my recollection mid-eighties through the nineties subsequently the building burned down.

[@DrJ-hx7wv]

As a kid, my parents bought a townhouse on Beaver Dam Creek. I grew up there and miss it terribly. I considered moving back when I found a tent under a billion dollars, but that was quickly purchased.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

🤣🤣🤣 it must have been so great growing up on Beaver Dam Creek....when you could afford a tent there. 😅

[@MrGbutter]

1946 my Mom and Dad moved to Manasquan and I started school in the kindergarten and I think it was in 1948 we moved to Point Pleasant where I continued my school at the school on Ocean Road. We lived a street across from the Manasquan canal. I finally left Point Pleasant in 1957 to join the US Navy during the Viet Nam War.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

Sounds like some great memories!

[@ginac895]

thank you for your service 🙏 🇺🇸

[@thomasdominic2914]

What happened after your service that you didn't go back?

[@samanthab1923]

wow, I think Jack Nicholson grew up in Manasquan

[@Annbosguy]

Great video very nicely narrated. Familiar with all the spots

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it. 🙂🙃

[@kennithminnich]

My Brother-in-laws Father had a chance to buy much of Point Pleasant . He declined, and thought it was just worthless swamp land.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

A lot of it was. It would have taken a lot of money to transform our it into a beach resort community

[@curmudgeonextraordinaire1884]

The area had much more character in the early 1900s. It’s become too overdeveloped and now draws an unsavory crowd

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

That's a shame. Been a few years since I was there but there were some seedy motels on 35.

[@bdemanttt]

What specifically does “unsavory crowd” mean?

[@RH421939]

If the stupid train bridge would get stuck up it would keep a lot of the garbage out

[@andrekellogg8859]

It's an old shore town with no significance anymore. They don't even have a boardwalk. Asphalt is not a. boardwalk.

[@samanthab1923]

Yup, last time I sat on the beach was late 70’s. Just got to crowded & traffic/parking was a zoo. Migrated back up north to private beaches.

[@Thecorgially]

Pt. Pleasant and Manasquan were my beaches of choice as a teenager and in my 20's.

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

I spent a lot of great times there in my teens and 20s too!!!!

[@andrekellogg8859]

Both suck now.

[@BIackety]

Word life

[@jesrusso4682]

Sad to say that Point Pleasant Beach have been picking the pockets of tourists for many years and making people very paranoid about being there, I was there yesterday parking 20 bucks beach 13 bucks total rip off glad I turned away and said sorry this place is all about taking your money....and the cops are even worse, not a friendly family place anymore. This place was great in the 60's and 70's through the 80's then it got greedy...Def a place to stay away from...

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

That is so sad to hear. Those prices! Thankfully we got to enjoy it in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

[@jesrusso4682]

@@historyofthejerseyshore yes very sad and the police have such bad attitudes as well down there...they deserve to have no tourists at all...

[@historyofthejerseyshore]

@@jesrusso4682 🙁

[@andrekellogg8859]

Good to know, I will make sure to avoid that area.

[@RobertShanahan-o3h]

The place is no way what it was in the 70’s and 80’s. Bad crowd. And to be avoided, I agree.