Vote for your favorite New Jersey beach

SANDY HOOK, N.J. - Do you have fond memories of the Jersey shore? Now you can vote for the best beaches in the state, whether it's Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Cape May, Wildwood, Sandy Hook, Seaside or any ... via Ithaca Journal

[Bob]

The Sea Girt Army Camp in the 70's. No crowds. No beach badges. No lifeguards. No signs telling you "no". And no God Damn bennies.

[Bob]

The Sea Girt Army Camp in the 70's.
No crowds. No beach badges. No lifeguards. No signs telling you "no". And most importantly, no damn bennies.

[ItalianLoco]

bennies?

[Bob]

New Yorkers and people from north Jersey.

[ItalianLoco]

Bob wrote:

New Yorkers and people from north Jersey.

ooohh...lol

[mark]

Bob wrote:
New Yorkers and people from north Jersey.
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if it wasn't for the new yorkers and north jerseyan,s south jersey would still be living in trailer parks!!! LOL

[Bob]

Trailer Parks? You must go to Keansburg beach. Inconsiderate bennies ruin the summer for the locals. They leave a trail of garbage, broken beer bottles, and puddles of urine wherever they go. In the summer the local cab companies have to charge a $50.00 bodily discharge clean up fee. The only ones benefiting from bennies are the town coffers (through beach badge sales and fines for noise, fighting, vandalism, disorderly persons, DWI, and urinating in public.) and the absentee landlords who pack the bennies into their group rentals like third world Mexicans.
And even a trailer park is better than Elizabeth. I've been there. Ever hear of the "Lyons Den"?

[mark]

Bob
Cambridge, OH wrote
And even a trailer park is better than Elizabeth. I've been there. Ever hear of the "Lyons Den"?
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sorry bob, i don't live in elizibeth NJ, my computer ips is from there, im north of that, and yes new yorkers and north jersey people with money brought ac to life, before the casinos and cash inflow south jersey was poor, very poor, did ya ever hear of the poeple from the pines?

[JER]

Or you can avoid NJ beaches altogether and actually visit another state. Imagine that. Not going to Wildwood for the 25th vacation in a row. Traveling outside the state and seeing what other humans are doing. Because it's so much fun to go to Wildwood and pay $2000 for some dingy no-tell-motel room *AGAIN* when you can take a family of 4 to Tennessee and see the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

[mark]

JER
AOL wrote
when you can take a family of 4 to Tennessee and see the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.
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and a lot cheaper then an overnite in ac!!

[ItalianLoco]

JER wrote:

Or you can avoid NJ beaches altogether and actually visit another state. Imagine that. Not going to Wildwood for the 25th vacation in a row. Traveling outside the state and seeing what other humans are doing. Because it's so much fun to go to Wildwood and pay $2000 for some dingy no-tell-motel room *AGAIN* when you can take a family of 4 to Tennessee and see the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

Wildwood doesn't require beach tags.

Tennessee? Sounds very lame. If I wanted to spend my vacation in redneck country its cheaper just to get a room in the sticks of central South Jersey.

[JER]

The point was clearly missed on you, ItalianLoco. It was a suggestion, not an absolute. You are obviously related to the idiots I work with who sqwauk about how expensive it is to travel, yet they blow $2000 for a mini-vacation down the shore, just like the 10, 15, 20-plus years. For that same amount of money, one could have gone to a national park or some other natural destination outside of NJ. Why limit your view of the U.S. to NJ?

[ItalianLoco]

JER wrote:

The point was clearly missed on you, ItalianLoco. It was a suggestion, not an absolute. You are obviously related to the idiots I work with who sqwauk about how expensive it is to travel, yet they blow $2000 for a mini-vacation down the shore, just like the 10, 15, 20-plus years. For that same amount of money, one could have gone to a national park or some other natural destination outside of NJ. Why limit your view of the U.S. to NJ?

Sorry dude, but you don't know me at all... nor where I've been. I've been to 27 states, and lived in Southern California and Pennsylvania.

Maybe you might not agree, but I appreciate what the Jersey Shore has to offer.

[JJJ]

Bob wrote:

The Sea Girt Army Camp in the 70's. No crowds. No beach badges. No lifeguards. No signs telling you "no". And no God Damn bennies.

That bennie stuff was palyed out in the 60s, besides 90% of the people living at the shore was originally from NNJ.

[Pricey222]

ItalianLoco wrote:

bennies?

Bennies, also known as Day Bennies, are like the Shoebies/shoobies who visit the South Jersey Shore. The term comes from the practice of bringing their lunches in a shoe box, leaving some mess and not buying anything. Yes, we now have a love-hate relationship with visitors, especially daytrippers and weekenders who make up the majority of visitors. The average stay in Atlantic City is less than half that of other resorts, and most drive here, so we see more congestion on the roads leading in.(The total annual visitor count is always over 30-million, about the same as Disney World and Las Vegas.)

A few years ago at a tourism conference in Asbury Park to kick off an entire Jersey Shore marketing campaign, some 400 attendees were served lunch in shoe boxes (specially printed).