Jim and Terence Smith are brothers and business partners in Garden State Surf & Art, where they display and sell handmade goods and antiques, build custom art frames, collect reclaimed wood and raw materials – often from demolished Cape Cod-style houses – and generally seek organic flow and balance in their busy, creative lives.

They’re in the 1950s building that used to be the Garden State gas station, in the Beach Haven Crest section of Long Beach Township. They kept the old sign.
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