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irisblue

(34,862 posts) Thu Mar 20, 2025, 07:28 PM Mar 20

People enjoy their time at "chicken bone" beach, Atlantic city, NJ in the 1950s. This was a segregated beach.

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It looks a wonderful place

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People enjoy their time at "chicken bone" beach, Atlantic city, NJ in the 1950s. This was a segregated beach. (Original Post) irisblue Mar 20 OP

In the late 60's too! JustAnotherGen Mar 20 #1

JustAnotherGen

(34,629 posts)

1. In the late 60's too!

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Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:38 PM

Mar 20

My parents met at Fort Dix. Mom.had a summer job at the Officers club. That was the beach a mixed race couple could go to - even in the late 60's in South Jersey.

Thank you for this. Missing them both today. All the hopes of those two *kids* for their family destroyed in two months. You brought a smile to me face - pictures.

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