Red Bank is almost the hoboken of the jersey shore. Its kind of a cool place. Lots of staten islanders / former brooklynites are in that area. bradley beach had a few good italian joints, i think a few are still there. Lots of lower east siders from manhatten would go to bradley beach in the summer back in the day. not sure why they picked that town, but whatever.
Are you talking 70's and 80's? We had a place down in Bradley. You could take the train from Manhattan lets you right off there. Lots to do there they had the boardwalk and shows there at the outdoor stage, restaurants, miniature golf, a movie theatre. You could walk down to Asbury Park back when it had the amusement park. Yum salt water taffy they made right there on the boardwalk. I spent a lot of my childhood and teen years down the shore. Fun times!!
