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A wide roadway with the resort's turreted shopfronts along the left side and, on the right, a two-storey shingled building with BAMBOO BAR lettered over its door, a pile of revetment rock along the ocean side immediately behind it

The Bamboo Bar in its original position, c. 1915

ca. 1915

Highland Beach, foot of Sandy Hook

Looking down the roadway with the resort's turreted frontage on the left and, on the right, the two-storey shingled building with BAMBOO BAR lettered over its door. The Sandlass family lived on the floor above that door. The strip here is narrow enough to see both edges of it in one frame: the road, the building, and immediately behind it the revetment rock piled along the ocean side. It stood on this spot until the hurricane of September 1938; the family moved it south across the road the following year, and it is the building the Park Service now numbers 600. The research paper lists this figure as a view of Building 600 as the Bamboo Garden; the sign in the photograph reads BAMBOO BAR. Gateway NRA Museum Collection catalog #21895; figure 11 of the NPS Highland Beach research paper (McCollough and Rasa, 2005).

Item record

Title
The Bamboo Bar in its original position, c. 1915
Date
ca. 1915
Source
Gateway NRA Museum Collection #21895 · via the NPS Highland Beach research paper, 2005
Contributor
Gateway National Recreation Area Museum Collection
Rights
Public domain — created before 1929 and published without renewal; the National Park Service publishes the Gateway NRA Museum Collection as public domain.
Slug
hb-nps-bamboo-bar-c1915

Verification: unverified.

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The Bamboo Bar in its original position, c. 1915 (ca. 1915). Gateway NRA Museum Collection #21895 · via the NPS Highland Beach research paper, 2005 The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/hb-nps-bamboo-bar-c1915/.