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Historical Photos of Harvey Cedars
1933 KINSEY COVE: This photograph was taken by Arnold Anderson, a well-known Philadelphia print maker at the time. It shows F.P. Small's boat house, now a private residence. All the homes in the background are on Maiden Lane and are still there.
1920: This oceanfront home, with it's wrap-around screen proch, is on the north side of what would become 78th Street. The clothes line extends from the house to the raised out-house overlooking the ocean. Storms in 1935, 1938 and 1943 cut away the large protective dunes and the house was destroyed in the 1944 hurricane.
HIGH DUNE: This shot was taken in the early 1930's from a high dune about where 84th Street is now. Two tents are pitched on the dunes and Barnegat Lighthouse is barely visible on the horizon. If the photo were clearer and larger you could see the Loveladies Coast Guard station above the white tent.
1949: Overlooking town from the Small Estate, now Sisters of Charity, to Kinsey Cove. The beaches have not been repaired since the 1944 hurricane. The oceanfront house on the left was owned by the DeCesare family when it was destroyed in the 1962 Nor'Easter. The water tower on the far right is on 80th Street. Lots of gravel yards and no landscaping! The light shading at upper right is now Loveladies harbor.
1972 GANG AT 80TH STREET BEACH: 50 years ago more people sat on beach towels, old towels, or old blankets and spreads. Very few bothered with beach chairs and only an occasional umbrella blocked the sun; people were less concerned about sun damage to skin. No beach replenishment; the sand came and went with the tides, currents, and storms. The beach was not much wider than what you see in this photo and was not backed up by a high, cultivated dune.
1986: Take a look around the Kinsey Cove area before construction of SuperSized homes began. The water tower across from the firehouse went up in 1937 and was torn down in the early 1990's. The tank at the park, bringing us water now, was built in 1988.
1938: Construction starts on the Donnelly's oceanfront home, which along with Paul Troast's house, were the first two to be built by the beach at the south end of town, north of what would become Bergen Avenue.
1939: Looking northeast from Burlington Avenue, across the meadows. The photo was taken by Lloyd Good, who had an oceanfront house; two of the children are his. Billy Remington is the second from the right; his family also had a large house on the oceanfront. The Good home was destroyed in the 1944 hurricane and the Remington's house was knocked off its foundation and eventually moved to the bayfront on Holly Avenue, where Billy's younger sisted, Sally Remington Potts now lives.
TENTING ON THE BEACH 1930: An expanded family houses guests in tents on the dunes. This photo came from the family of former Mayor Joe Yearly, who lived in a small house on Maiden Lane (still standing).