Dick LaBonté Anchor & Palette Gallery

Running Out

This is the US Life-Saving Station in Bay Head in the 1890s, which became a Coast Guard Station after the Life-Saving and Revenue Cutter Services became the Coast Guard in 1915. This building is the third of three stations located in Bay Head and the first permanent station built on the Jersey coast. Erected in 1889, it stood on the west side of East Avenue, south of Mount Street. The first Bay Head station was built in 1854 near the end of Osborne Avenue. The second was built in 1871 and became the "Bonnie Dune" (Zuver) house south of the Bluffs. The service continued through World War II, when Bay Head was blacked out with only armed patrols allowed beyond the dunes at night. A Coast Guard horseman, a dog-man and two men afoot patrolled each mile of beach, reporting by phone every 15 minutes to a command post in a home in Mantoloking.

Image size: 12x14.

Giclee print. Limited edition of 100. Unsigned.

$100


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