A trip to the Jersey Shore was something that N.J. residents of the early and mid-20th Century called painful, before the Garden State Parkway was built. Here's what it was like.
We may lament the unavoidable traffic that defines our trips to the Jersey Shore each summer, but really -- it used to be worse.was built, a trip to the Shore was an agonizing, bumper-to-bumper crawl over local highways that took seemingly forever. You might wonder how that’s so different from today. But close to 70 years ago, the trip was very different.
Rich Gautier, 87, of Jersey City had one word to describe a drive to the Shore in the pre-Parkway era: painful. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. By browsing this site, we may share your information with our social media partners in accordance with our
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