We know that when we get two similar leads, a local legend, like prohibition hooch, is brewing. “Al Capone built the hospital for his mother who was a patient there.”Īfter she left our table we looked at each other and discussed how strange it was that everyone we encountered seemed to not only know the story, but sort of took it as a matter of fact. “Oh, that’s old news, honey,” she snorted. It’s a 10- story building that just rises right up out of the pines!”Ī man standing by the magazine stand chimed in with “…and his mother was there too! I heard that he actually built the place for her, as a kind of retirement home.”Īrmed with these few scraps of hearsay evidence, we headed to the diner and asked our waitress if she had also heard legend. “Oh yes,” said the girl behind the counter. (Hmmm, sounded like gangsters lingo to us.) We inquired about the convalescent home and its alleged Capone connection at the deli next to the diner. The only bit of information we had was that the place was now called The Bayview Convalescent Home, and was located near Double Trouble Road. We kept hearing reports of “Al Capone’s Summer Home” somewhere in the Bayville area, so we decided to see what we could dig up on the Chicago crime boss’s travels in New Jersey. On one Weird NJ excursion our travels took us to a friendly little diner in Beachwood, just north of Bayville, where we inquired about a local legend that’s been told to us more than a few times over the years.
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