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Long Beach Island, New Jersey (U.S.)

Ocean County

image located by Jason SaberOrtiz, 26 May 2024
Source: https://www.lbiflag.com/lbi-flag

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Long Beach Island is not a city nor town but the actual island in Ocean County. It is an 18 mile long barrier island off the coast of New Jersey. Its white sandy beaches and small resort towns make it a popular summer destination. The towns on Long Beach Island are: Barnegat Light, Beach Haven, Harvey Cedars, Long Beach Township, Holgate, Loveladies, North Beach, Ship Bottom and Surf City. Combined population is about 10,000 swelling to 150,000 in the summer months.
Chris Kretowicz, 11 September 2002

I havent been able to confirm whether the flag was adopted by the town. There is this article, but its locked behind a paywall: https://www.thesandpaper.net/articles/a-new-lbi-flag-rises-steeped-in-vexillology.
David Sigley, 26 May 2024

The quoted website interestingly notes that the twelve sunbeams alternate in a 3×4 pattern of whole-broken-broken and thin-thin-thick spelling out the initials of the toponym: "liB", the latter letter reduced to the
negative space of its bowls: https://www.lbiflag.com/lbi-flag.
A previous version of the page is available archived at https://www.thesandpaper.net/articles/a-new-lbi-flag-rises-steeped-in-vexillology/

The photo illustrating this article as of June 2023 shows this flag hoisted alongside the U.S. national flag on a private residential balcony / porch: It is a detailed item matching the diagrammatic specs given at https://assets.bigcartel.com/theme_images/123845832/IMG_0917.png in the promo website by made not of printed nylon (as the ones on offer at https://www.lbiflag.com/products) but of actual appliqueed cloth: https://web.archive.org/web/20230624064244im_/https://www.thesandpaper.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/IMG_0919-1024x768.jpeg

So, even if it’s (not yet) adopted, it’s already in actual local use.

António Martins-Tuválkin, 26 May 2024

The flag attached by Jason as a GIF was discussed four days ago in detail here in this Facebook Group dedicated to flags four Daya ago, where you can see further information as well as an actual flag display: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/MYc9xySsMLxw74cM/?mibextid=oFDknk
Esteban Rivera, 27 May 2024

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image by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 11 November 2005

In this reduced photo of an actual flag the head - eye, beak - of the bird, surely a gull, are slightly different from the drawing. This is reduced from a large original put up on eBay by "edwinart" who reckons the flag dates from the 1970ies. Seller's comments, slightly edited: "Roughly 3 x 5 feet. Made by Defiance. 100% cotton bunting. Annin & Co. Verona NJ. Printed graphics. (...). There is a blue spot on the back of the seagull but don't know if it was just a printing mistake or what. Has grommets for hoisting."

Description: horizontally divided white above blue, over the division a white gull in flight, wings having a black stripe at the tips, beak yellow, head towards the lower fly; on the upper stripe part of name in blue "LONG BEACH" above three blue five-pointed stars, all bowed, and on the lower stripe part of name in white "ISLAND, N.J." below three white five-pointed stars, all bowed. In the lower hoist white "C in circle" copyright sign.

Some background information on the flag (lbi.net/soropt/page3.html): "The Long Beach Island Flag was designed by 12-year old Jeffrey Huber in 1966, during a contest sponsored by the Soroptimist of Long Beach Island. The sale of the LBI Flag has been an important source of funds since then."

Jan Mertens, 10 January 2011