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THE MEANING OF THE JERSEY SHORE: A PHOTOGRAPHY ESSAY ABOUT SEASIDE HEIGHTS BY JACQUES GAINES

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Channel: Jacques Gaines · 2017 · Entertainment

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The Jersey Shore and Seaside Heights is not what you think it is

The real Jersey Shore

Jersey Shore the television show began airing December of 2009. It was a series that ran for about 3 years. It changed the way people looked at the real Jersey shore, but the Jersey Shore, for all its kitch, has something to offer beside the tacky trashy t-shirt stores along the Seaside Heights boardwalk.

Ever since my younger days (since the age of 7 to be exact) I have been going to the Seaside Heights beach to play. My personal relationship with the place has always been one of family fun, games, leisure and all around laying back and being who I am without thinking of anything but that. It is a place where all guards are down. Where genuine is effortless.  People are who they are. A haven for the middle and lower class and a bastion for the genuine.

Seaside Heights to me

But if you ask me to coldly to tell you what this beach is about. I could not ignore that it is home of the middle class Jersey family. That there are solicitors trying to get you to play their games that you can never really win at. It is the noise of the rides bombarding your afternoon nap by the pier. Its people yelling down at you from the chairlift while you take your "quiet" walk near the board walk. Its the place where the annoying is taken in and welcomed because those things define and remind you that it is your haven. So as you lay by the beach and hear kids screaming in the distance, as you say no to that game seller, as your feet burn up as you walk from your beach umbrella to the board walk for a pee or fried Oreos, a voice sreams "Let your guard down"

Real people

But it is also about real real people. It is about the struggles of those who work so very hard all year around and go to get their escape from the daily strive to survive. So the intensity of the actual rest is always a bit stronger because these people struggle so hard the rest of the year. The rest from those who live through pain is always that much more intense and that energy can be felt.

But what I take from the Jersey Shore, and more specifically Seaside Heights, is that it is a place that creates memories. The "other than home" who's sounds, smells, sights, and experiences will live on forever in our minds. Where I will remember that feeling of the outdoor shower taking off the salt water, and the blistering walk from the beach to the cottage, and those talks on the deck at midnight when all is quiet. It is a memory factory that my family and I will always cherish.

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