BRADLEY MANAHAN (Spring Lake Florist - A Victorian Garden #1308 Third Avenue)
Originally located on Jersey Avenue between Third and Fourth Avenue, Mr. Manahan sold the produce from his thirty acre farm in New Bedford. He sold a large variety of fruits and vegetables. What he could not grow himself, he purchased from the markets. He kept three teams of horses to deliver all over Spring Lake.	From The Spring Lake Historical Society Collection
He later moved his business to Third Avenue and replaced his horses with trucks. During good weather, baskets of fruits and vegetables lined the sidewalk in front of his store. These outdoor displays were very attractive to customers but also to a dalmation who lived down the street and belonged to a competitor. Micky thought Manahan's lettuces were irresistible and so he stole one every morning and brought it home to eat.

BENNETT & HEIGHT MEAT MARKET (Bank of New York)

One of the early businesses on Third Avenue, Bennett and Height served the people and hotels of Spring Lake from the early 1890's until the late 1960's. Before the days of refrigerated cases, Bennett and Height erected a large cold storage plant in Manasquan in which to keep their meat. In the back section of this building was A. Stulz Giford and Sons Seafood. The Butcher Block was here after Bennett & Height's, followed by a number of banks.

Bennett & Height From the collection of Peggy Height

POST OFFICE ROW (Northeast corner of Washington and Third) This business complex was built in 1959. The Bottle Shop was the first business to be established here. Prior to the business complex, this was an open grassy area. Every year about a week before the fourth of July, Carrie Brown of Brown's Stationery set up a tent and sold fireworks here.

VORHEES BAKERY (MacGowan Real Estate Agency)
Picture of Voorhees Bakery from the collection of The Spring Lake Historical Society	Established in 1880, the bakery moved to Third Avenue in 1888. In the early days, there were two deliveries. Because the local general stores and the area households depended on the Voorhees deliveries, they were made no matter what the weather. It was not uncommon during the winter to see the deliveries being made by horseback with the bread packed into saddlebags.
The brick building was the bakery store. The ovens were in a separate building adjacent to the store. (gray building which looks like a barn to the west) Late at night between 10:00 and 11:00, young people used to go down to Voorhees and buy hot cinnamon buns as they came out of the ovens. Specials were often posted in the windows, but it was the Easter advertisements which received the most comment. Every year a sign announcing "Stolen" would appear in the window. All of Voorhees younger patrons would try to find out what had been stolen from Voorhees. Young boys wishing to fish in the lake would often stop by the bakery where they would be given a lump of dough. The fish found it to be irresistible. The MacGowan Agency, which was established in 1946, rented the northern half of the building for many years (where Pappas and Pappas is now). When Mrs. Voorhees decided to sell the bakery, the MacGowans bought the building. For several years Mr. MacGowan ran back and forth between the real estate office and the bakery, waiting on customers and selling real estate. One business was enough to run, so he moved the real estate office to where the bakery store was and rented out the other half of the building.