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Oak Beach Inn

September 30, 2012 – 7:21 pm

In the 80s I would get on my Yamaha XS 650CC and drive out of Manhattan to Jones Beach. I’d avoid the gathering of sun-worshippers at the East Bathhouse and rode past the sand dunes bordering Ocean Parkway past West Gilgo and Cedar Beach to the Oak Beach Inn located across the inlet from the […]

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No More Oak Beach Inn

November 9, 2009 – 8:06 am

Oak Beach was a small marshland community at the end of the Jones Beach Causeway. Access to the tidewater island was strictly by boat. The houses were constructed during the 30s and 40s. Electricity was an option. Across the causeway was the Oak Beach Inn. A large clam shack serving the drunk drivers from everywhere […]

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