We Sure
Have Lots of
Shore Memories
ANDY GOTLIEB | JE MANAGING EDITOR
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Early Beach Days Marred by Misfortune
Andy Gotlieb, managing editor
THE YEAR WAS 1970; the place was Atlantic City.

A year earlier, man walked on the moon, Charles Manson’s
crew committed horrific murders. Sen. Ted Kennedy was
involved in Chappaquiddick and Woodstock happened. Atlantic
City was rocking, too, with the Atlantic City Pop Festival, which
featured a who’s who of musical acts.

By comparison, the summer of 1970 was a bit calmer, and my
soon-to-be-4-year-old-self was blissfully unaware — and bliss-
fully unaware that he was believed lost on the beach.

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Almost everyone has memories of time spent in Atlantic
City, Margate, Ocean City, Cape May, Wildwood and
the other shore towns, so we asked staffers to provide some of
their more memorable moments. Here’s what we got. (Staffers
who didn’t grow up in the area provided their own summer
beach memories.)
I was collecting shells and building sand castles with my
friend Sheryl Haber when I apparently wandered off to find more
shells or fill a bucket with water.

“Mrs. Gotlieb, Andy went to get more shells and has been
gone for a long time,” Sheryl informed my mother.

That set off the Aquarius Age version of an Amber Alert, as
everyone on the beach began searching for me. Things were com-
pounded by the police chasing someone down the boardwalk (it
had nothing to do with me, but set off fears that perhaps I was
abducted). Thing is, I wasn’t lost and wandered back to our spot on the
beach on my own.

THIS SUMMER
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