Now we continue our WNYC Centennial series, 100 Years of 100 Things. This week we continue on the

summary side with things number 11 and 12, 100 years of the Jersey Shore and 100 years of the

Catskills. These go with our recent summer segments on 100 years of ice cream and 100 years of

New York baseball. In addition to, of course, we're

doing more serious ones that we've done in our first 10, 100 years of Republican presidential

candidates when that convention was going on, 100 years of James Baldwin, born a century

ago last week and others. We have 90 to go, two per week for almost the next year on Mondays and

Wednesdays. And here we are with thing number 11, 100 years of the Jersey Shore, starting with

Bruce Springsteen's growing up from his very first album 51 years ago. He's been around for most of

the last hundred years of the Jersey Shore in the

public eye. Greetings from Asbury Park was that album. Here on a Monday when the weather should be

great for the boardwalk and great for the beach. I said great for the beach, right? Not like a certain

day in August 11 years ago when Governor Chris Christie, oh wait, no, this was

13 years ago, do my math, when Governor Chris Christie had one of his most famous news conference

moments. Again, at 8 o'clock tonight, the Garden State Parkway will close southbound from exit 98 south to be used exclusively then for emergency vehicles.

And if tomorrow we need to set up contra flow on the Garden State Parkway to continue the orderly evacuation of folks from the shore region in those counties that I discussed earlier.

So to folks again, you know, I saw some of these news feeds that I've been watching upstairs

of people sitting on the beach in Asbury Park. Get the hell off the beach in Asbury Park and get out. You're done. It's

4.30. You've maximized your tan. Get off the beach. No greetings to Asbury Park from

Governor Chris Christie there. Remember that as Hurricane Irene was approaching on August 26th, 2011. So 100 years of the Jersey Shore.

We'll invite your oral history calls in just a minute, and we have two great guests.

Deb Whitcraft, founder and president of the New Jersey Maritime Museum, and Amel Salvini,

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