UPDATE – 2020 – Due to restrictions on indoor dining, the Show Place is offering outside seating and take out.

The Show Place Ice Cream Parlor is a unique ice cream place with a 1900’s flavor. It is staffed by actors and actresses from the adjacent Surflight Theater. 

Update 2020 – Howard’s is offering tent dining in a large outdoor tent in their parking lot until the Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.

Howard’s Seafood Restaurant has been serving great seafood since 1950.  It is one of the few restaurants with a water view.

The Tiki Bar and Palm Grill at the Seashell Hotel is an outdoor bar and restaurant.

Bonds’ Lifesaving Station in Holgate is now a private residence.  It was one of six stations on Long Beach Island.

The Surflight theater is in the heart of Beach Haven. They offer shows, concerts and children’s theater.

Update 2020 – Fantasy Island is open with some restrictions such as masks, distancing and limited occupancy. BUT IT IS OPEN!

Fantasy Island is an arcade and amusement park in Beach Haven. Prior to it’s life as Fantasy Island, it was known as Hartman’s.

Morrison’s Restaurant was a classic LBI restaurant. It had been serving great seafood since the 1940’s. It’s position adjacent to the intercoastal waterway and large windows provided a parade of boats for diners. The volume of boats dropped off significantly as time progressed. In the earlier days, you would see a continuous procession of  everything from well worn garveys to expensive sport fishermen while you enjoyed great seafood.

Photos of the schooner, Lucy Evelyn,  right after she was beached in Beach Haven and converted to a gift shop.

The Lucy Evelyn was a three masted schooner built in 1917 in Harrington Maine and homeported in Machias Maine.  She served for a number of years including the packet trade to South America. At one point in World War II, she was shelled by a German U-Boat and survived.