The following letter was written after the frightening 1935 northeast storm by Bea Gurtcheff, photographer David Gurtcheff’s aunt, who grew up in Ship Bottom and went to Barnegat High School. Bea’s daughter Carole, back in the family home on 19th Street, typed it and sent it to David, who passed it on to me too late to be included in Great Storms of the Jersey Shore, the book I co-authored with Larry Savadove that was published by Down The Shore Publishing in 1993.
The 1935 storm inundated the Boulevard the full length of the Island with 18 inches to 3 feet of water, destroying some…
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