When he was working for the Bendix Corp.’s Utica, N.Y., plant in the late 1960s, Paul O’Hara had frequentbusiness dealings with a sales representativenamed Bert Smith. The two became friends, and one day Smith told him about how he had purchased a summer home in Beach Haven.
Smith invited O’Hara to one day check it out, and the latter took him up on his offer. The Jeffries Avenue home included several rental units, and Smith asked O’Hara if he would be interested in taking one.
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