This sun-drenched mid-century view captures a crowded beach at Point Pleasant Beach, a historic New Jersey shore community. The image features a vast expanse of bathers and colorful umbrellas, with the original low-profile boardwalk and beach pavilions stretching along the horizon. This card carries a warm personal update from the summer of 1946, where the senders mention a "long looked for vacation" and share news of friends visiting the mountains, perfectly capturing the post-war travel boom to the Atlantic coast.
Era: Linen 1940s (1941)
City: Point Pleasant Beach
State or Region: New Jersey
Country: USA
Topic: Bathing Beaches, Boardwalks, Ocean Scenes, Americana
Condition: Circulated (Postmarked Aug 15, 1946)
Postage: 1¢ Green George Washington Stamp (affixed upside down)
Address Side: Divided Back
Orientation: Horizontal (Landscape)
Artist / Photographer: Unknown
Publisher: Samuel Strauss Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Printer: Curt Teich and Co., Chicago
Print Type: C.T. Art-Colortone (Linen)
