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 cat skills.

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 a hundred 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, a hundred 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. 51 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,

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

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