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African American

JustAnotherGen

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1. In the late 60's too!

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Thu Mar 20, 2025, 08:38 PM

Mar 2025

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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People enjoy their time at "chicken bone" beach, Atlantic city, NJ in the 1950s. This was a segregated beach. [View all] irisblue Mar 2025 OP

In the late 60's too! JustAnotherGen Mar 2025 #1