For their 50th wedding anniversary on Aug. 18, longtime Beach Haven summer residents Robert and Ruth Goldston knew there was going to be a dinner celebration.
But the festivities turned out to be much more as family members rented a golf cart and adorned it with festive decorations. The couple then sat in the cart for a surprise parade up and down Beach and Atlantic avenues near their summer home on Norwood Avenue. Their children, grandchildren and extended family festively walked alongside them with ribboned batons, paper horns and tambourines.
And as a special feature, music from 1974 blared through a streaming system with a smartphone and speaker.
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