Jones Beach lifeguard works to repair umbrellas for summer season
Jones Beach has its own “Canvas Shop” where several people, including two lifeguards, work to refurbish and assemble the iconic beach umbrellas.
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Jones Beach lifeguard Tom Meehan spends the summers scanning the shore and the off-season repairing beach umbrellas in the Jones Beach “Canvas Shop.”
He told News 12 it’s “a real love to work with your hands.”
The umbrellas have been a staple of Jones Beach since it opened in 1929.
There are two patterns: one for lifeguards and one for beachgoers, who may rent them.
The iconic orange pattern can’t be found anywhere else: Jones Beach has the rights to it.
Hundreds of the umbrellas are repaired every year.
