🏆Famous Firsts1920s
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Did You Know?
Bradley Beach introduced the first beach badge system in America in 1929, a practice that spread throughout New Jersey.
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Cape May is the oldest seaside resort in America, welcoming visitors since 1761—15 years before the Declaration of Independence.
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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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Atlantic City built the first boardwalk in America in 1870. It was invented to keep sand out of hotel lobbies.
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