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Beginnings: Sound Beach emerged at the end of the Roaring Twenties as a result of a New York City newspaper circulation war. The Daily Mirror bought more than 1,000 acres in 1928 and the next year began advertising 20-by-100-foot lots for $89.50. Buyers showed up in Sound Beach lugging their groceries and other necessities because there were almost no services, only "unspoiled desolation,'' as one local historian put it. Some pitched tents until they could build summer cottages.
Photo: The bluffs at Sound Beach (Newsday / Daniel Goodrich)
Photo: The bluffs at Sound Beach (Newsday / Daniel Goodrich)
Beginnings: Sound Beach emerged at the end of the Roaring Twenties as a result of a New York City newspaper circulation war. The Daily Mirror bought more than 1,000 acres in 1928 and the next year began advertising 20-by-100-foot lots for $89.50. Buyers showed up in Sound Beach lugging their groceries and other necessities because there were almost no services, only "unspoiled desolation,'' as one local historian put it. Some pitched tents until they could build summer cottages.
Photo: The bluffs at Sound Beach (Newsday / Daniel Goodrich)
Photo: The bluffs at Sound Beach (Newsday / Daniel Goodrich)
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