My first Long Beach Island summer came around 1957 when the Shapiros dominated the single-home construction activity close to Beach Haven while other builders were busy up and down the sprawling Island. This summer of 2015 will be the first I missed on LBI since about 1980. Before that year my family didn’t make it here some summers but not very many.
On LBI, air conditioners sat in windows, ours mostly unused, enabling us to enjoy the fresh, clean sea breeze that swept through the open windows.
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