by Erik Weber | Feb 8, 2021 | 1920-1929: Roaring Twenties
Roof raising and exterior renovation work has exposed a ghost sign in Beachwood Borough this week, revealing the location of a business that opened over 100 years ago on the corner of Lookout Street and Atlantic City Boulevard (Route 166). “ACHWOOD...
by Erik Weber | Jul 10, 2018 | 1930-1939: Great Depression
Thanks to a generous partnership with both the Borough of Beachwood and Ocean County Cultural and Heritage Commission, borough meeting minutes of past decades are being digitized for access on BeachwoodHistory.com. Each successive month, starting with the earliest...
by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1913 + Earlier: Before Beachwood, 1914-1919: Early Beachwood, 1920-1929: Roaring Twenties, 1930-1939: Great Depression, 1940-1945: World War II, 1946-1959: Postwar + Parkway Boom, 1960-1969: Space Age + Spaced Out, 1970-1979: Protest to Punk Rock, 1980-1992: Electronic Age, 1993-2000: WWW + New Century, 2001-2020: Terror Panic to Pandemic
As part of volunteer effort to protect and present the history of Beachwood, Beachwood History.com offers free professional digitizing services for personal collections – photos, paperwork, publications, postcards, physical objects, etc – through our...
by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1913 + Earlier: Before Beachwood, 1914-1919: Early Beachwood
The text below has been taken straight from William Mill Butler’s Beachwood Directory and Who’s Who, 1924. Life Work of the Founder of Beachwood Bertram Chapman Mayo, son of Noah and Eveline R. Mayo, was born March 23rd, 1865, in Boston,...
by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1914-1919: Early Beachwood, 1920-1929: Roaring Twenties, 1930-1939: Great Depression, 1940-1945: World War II, 1946-1959: Postwar + Parkway Boom, 1960-1969: Space Age + Spaced Out
Below is Ruth Perry’s 1967 work of a brief report on the first fifty years of the incorporation of the Borough of Beachwood (noting the original resort, when still part of Berkeley Township, opened Decoration (Memorial) Day weekend, 1915). PREFACE The Reverend...
