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Island Album: Photographs & Memories of Long Beach Island | 
 enlarge | Creator: Margaret Thomas Buchholz
Publisher: Down The Shore Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 357707
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 207
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 13.2 x 10.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1593220219
Dewey Decimal Number: 974.948
EAN: 9781593220211
ASIN: 1593220219
Publication Date: May 15, 2006
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Product Description
Island Album presents us with both the idea and the reality of one New Jersey barrier island resort. Here is Long Beach Island in the days of pound fishing and great hotels, but here, too, are individual fishermen showing off their catches and a gaggle of summer waitresses posing for a group picture in their brief spare time. Children of every decade personify summer as they romp on beaches and mess about in boats. Teenagers are teenagers, recognizable at work and play. Houses evolve from simple shanties into Victorian "cottages" and finally modern structures with walls of glass. But all are home to the families gathered for the camera on porch and dock. The text, drawn from interviews taped over a ten-year period, combines descriptions of life on the Island with what the Island represents to those who have known it well. This fragile strip of land between bay and ocean captures the imagination today as much as ever, and this loving evocation of its past will delight those who know, and those who have just discovered, this place apart.
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 Intimate family album of an island January 2, 2008
I have read quite a few books about Long Beach Island history, and for sheer fun, this one is my new favorite. If you are at all familiar with the Island, this book will feel like a family album as you search through the hundreds of old black-and-white photographs, which are large, easy to see and captioned, looking for familiar faces and places. The book preserves the day-to-day history of that singular New Jersey barrier island, not only through previously unpublished photos from the collections of Lynn Photo and the late photographer Bill Kane, but also through the amusing and often intimate snippets from taped interviews (by the late Eleanor Smith) of long-time Island residents and old-timers who are also now deceased. The quotes and pictures both are wonderful. I found that I could open this book to any page at random and be thoroughly entertained!
 Surf, Sand and Beach Culture December 31, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Much more than a fine coffee-table adornment, this well-researched and thoughtfully-edited evocation of the culture of Long Beach Island is a delightful continuation of Margaret Buchholz Thomas's lifelong love-affair with the Jersey Shore. Like going through an old family album with the help of an uncle who knows all the stories and retells them with zest and flavor.
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