Wantagh, Jones Beach, NEW YORK - 1936:  Jones Beach State Park (colloquially, "Jones Beach") is a state park of the U.S. state of New York. It is located in southern Nassau County, in the hamlet of Wantagh, on Jones Beach Island, a barrier island linked to Long Island by the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Wantagh State Parkway, and Ocean Parkway (Long Island).  The park – 10 mi (16.1 km) in length – is renowned for its great beaches (which, excepting the Zach's Bay, face the open Atlantic Ocean) and furnishes one of the most popular summer recreational locations for the New York metropolitan area.  It is the most popular and heavily visited beach on the East Coast, with an estimated six million visitors per year.  "Jones Beach". Long Island Exchange.  The park was created during Robert Moses' administration as President of the Long Island State Park Commission (for which he wrote the legislation in 1923) as part of the development of parkways on Long Island. Moses' first major public project, Jones Beach State Park, is considered to be one of the most beautiful parks in the world, free from housing developers and private clubs, and instead is open for the general public. Several homes on High Hill Beach were barged further down the island to West Gilgo Beach to make room for the park.  Built in the 1920s, many of its buildings and facilities feature Art Deco architecture.  In the center of a traffic circle that he planned as a terminus for the Wantagh State Parkway, Moses ordered the construction of an Italianate-style water tower to serve as a central feature of the park.  The park opened to the public on August 4, 1929, along with the causeway that provided automobile access from the mainland of Long Island. The causeway was the first section in what was to become the Wantagh State Parkway.  Unusually for the time, no carnival type amusements were allowed in the park area.  This Linen Era postcard, published in 1936 but mailed in 1941 is in good condition, but there is edge wear.  Genuine Curteich-Chicago.  “C.T. Art Colortone”. No. 6A-H2558.  Frank E. Cooper.  New York, N.Y.  No. 6A-H2558