That was one thing about growing up at the Jersey Shore in the early 1960s. The Navy was still using blimps to patrol the coast for Soviet submarines. Our house had a unique shape as it was originally a restaurant with an attached apartment in the back. One night, a blimp that was having trouble trying to fight a headwind used our house as a landmark to hover over until they could continue on their patrol. I even got to visit NAS Lakehurst on an Armed Forces Day and see the blimps in and out of their hangars.That’s the first time I ever seen one in person the grandson and I were checking out the yacht with the sunbathers on the deck when my SIL saw the blimp then other passer byes were taking pictures and filming and the girls were all waveing not knowing there was a blimp behind them lol
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