Per AI:
Shooters fired shotguns at clay pigeons from the boardwalk over the oceanfront near the Asbury Park Casino.
Famous footage and photographs capture these events happening around 1938 and 1942 as part of organized tournaments and regional competitions like the Westy Hogan shoots.
Asbury was very Italian until the 70s. The mafia kept crime in Asbury in check until the Feds started gong hard at mafias in the late 60s and early 70s. So glad they got those mafia goodfellas cleared out, Asbury is Soooooooo much safer now.
Never knew this. Really 
Sort of like shooting skeet off the fantail of a cruise ship … in the old days.
Damn environmentalists!
Similar situation in Atlantic City, although the cops and the mob there were just two sides of the same coin, don’t know if that was the case in AP or not. For AC I would refine your statement to say they kept “unofficial” crime in check; pay-offs were the order of the day. I clearly remember riding down Atlantic Ave. with my Dad (who had most of the police force and many of the mid-echelon powers insured) sometime in the early to mid 1950s and seeing cops going store to store and coming out with small, flat packages wrapped in brown paper. “Collection Day”. Still, I agree it was far better than it is today.
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