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Did you know this about Bradley Beach?
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Bradley Beach introduced the first beach badge system in America in 1929, a practice that spread throughout New Jersey.
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From the 1920s-1960s, Bradley Beach was known as "Chinatown by the Sea" and had the largest Chinese-American summer community on the East Coast.
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The Sandy Hook Lighthouse (1764) is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States.
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Ron Jon Surf Shop was founded in Ship Bottom in 1959 as a tiny store. The original is now overshadowed by the massive Cocoa Beach flagship, but LBI is where it started.
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