When he first laid eyes on Long Beach Island, around age 10, Herbert L. Shapiro saw a lot of wildness: cactuses, blackberries, beach plums, bayberries, cattails and phragmites dominating the wide swaths of open space. There were little bungalows in Ship Bottom, called Beach Arlington then, and some bigger homes in Beach Haven. The post office, in a small grocery store in Beach Haven Crest, sold 3-cent stamps for letters.
The decades passed, as they tend to do, and Shapiro, now 100, can still clearly picture LBI and the surrounding area as…
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