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North Beach — LBI's Central Strip Through the Decades
North Beach is one of the quieter communities on Long Beach Island — a residential enclave of modest summer cottages rather than commercial bustle. The 1920 aerial shows the community in its early stages: a thin grid of streets with natural dunes and a wide beach. Development grew steadily through 1933, visible in that aerial. The 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane eroded the dune face noticeably. By 1962, North Beach was fully built out — the Ash Wednesday Storm's impact can be read in the aerial, which shows beach narrowing and dune damage compared to the generous strand visible in 1920.
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