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THE JERSEY SHORE BOARDWALK AMUSEMENT SERIES ! As kids growing up in New Jersey, Maria & I enjoyed summers
on the Jersey Shore. From the bayside boardwalk in
The smell of the salt air, the creosote soaked wood of the boardwalk, the sounds of thrill rides, games of chance and fun fill the air. All the neon, chase and flashing lights. The is fun for all ages. Even recording artist sung about the life on the boardwalk. Bobby Rydell sang about "Wildwood Days" back in the 1960's and of course Bruce Springsteen with 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) in the 1970's. Over the years the boardwalks have changed do to many reasons. Keansburg, Pt. Pleasant, Seaside Heights, Ocean City & The Wildwoods boardwalk areas have remained closely to the same just as time goes on, change in ownership and attractions.. Towns like Asbury Park (Which I have a fondness in my heart for) fell on hard social, economic & political times since 1970. Long Branch's Haunted Mansion pier sustained damage from hurricane Gloria in 1985 and total destruction in 1988 with a massive fire. The face of Atlantic City changed forever when in 1976 NJ voters approved casino gambling and on May 27, 1978 at 10AM, AC's first casino Resorts International opened it's doors and Atlantic City would never be the same again. A real NJ boardwalk experience is something for the young and
old to enjoy and cherish to memories of. First is the food. As soon as you hit
the boards the smell fills the air. No Burger King or Taco Bell here (Seaside
tried it but it didn't survive). Try a sausage-peppers & onions
sandwich, cheese steaks that are huge,14" hot dogs, 1/2 lbs. burgers clams on
the 1/2 shell, corn on the cob, fresh cut fries. For fun foods, funnel
cakes, sno-cones, homemade chocolate, real fresh popcorn, cotton candy and of
course the candy that made the Jersey Shore famous SALT
WATER TAFFY ! Certain boardwalk towns had a food stand that was unique to the area itself. Wildwood had the Taylor Pork Roll stand (Taylor Ham is a Northeast USA one of a kind!). Atlantic City had the Planter's Peanut Store & Strawberry Shortcakes. Seaside Height's has 3 Brothers From Italy Pizza (The Original), Seaside Steak House, The Midway & JR's. Pt. Pleasant has Martell's Clam Bar, Asbury Park had Ducky's Hotdogs and the famous Howard Johnson's in the unique Art-Deco building. Long Branch with Max's and The Windmill hotdogs. But one thing they all had and have is Kohr's Frozen Custard & Orangeade. Cool and refreshing, Kohr's orangeade is a taste on every NJ boardwalk since 1919 and it wouldn't be a day and night on the boardwalk without one. They are on every major boardwalk in NJ and some of the smaller non-amusement boards too. This is one taste of New Jersey's boardwalks that can't be passed up. And on a hot summer day or night, it is the most refreshing and tasty too ! Well I can go on and on but we want to tell you more on this project. For more of a look into NJ's rich boardwalk and amusement park history , click the tramcar below. For more on the M&M's boardwalk series of O scale buildings and accessories, read on ..................................... NOW UPDATED WITH PALACE AMUSEMENT HISTORY & VIDEOS ON 11/08/08
ABOUT THE JERSEY SHORE BOARDWALK AMUSEMENT O SCALE SERIES ! Our NJ boardwalk series is going to feature amusement & food stands, attractions, Doo-Wop style motels & arcades that are or were famous on the Jersey Shore. The structures will interact with our boardwalk and amusement pier sections that will be available also. Right now the series will be based on attractions and stores of the following NJ seashore towns:
Hi-lights of this series will be Doo-Wop style Wildwood, NJ Motels of the past. Midway Steakhouse, Taylor Pork Roll Store, Mack's Pizza, Berkeley Sweet Shop, Kohr's Custard & Orangeade and many other staples of the Jersey Shore. Also available will be boardwalk and amusement pier sections to show your buildings, stands and attractions on. Also in VERY LIMITED RELEASE a full O Scale size version of the famous Palace Amusements building that once stood on the corners of Cookman & Kingsley. The Palace will feature a operating Ferris wheel that comes out of the roof just like the Palace had, carousel, Tilt-A-Whirl, bumper cars, The Charcoal Pit, lighted signs and of course 2 neon Tillie murals on it's north wall. This will be a VERY LIMITED RUN of 4 pieces (One is for ourselves to donate). These are for serious inquiry only. The following boardwalk games of chance are part of the series: Duck Pond, Fat Cats, Water Balloon Race, Wheel Of Chance, Crazy Cans, Skee Ball Stand, Shooting gallery, Ring Toss, Shoot The Geek, Ball In Basket, Tic-Tac-Toe, Pick-3 , Color Ball Toss, Horse Race, Frog Bog, Strong Man (Ring The Bell), Fool The Guesser, Drag Race and possibly 10 more ! Boardwalk stores will feature T-Shirt shops, eateries, candy shoppes,
arcades, sundries shops all featuring names of The classic motels of the series will include the likes of some of the greatest Doo-Wop style motels that aren't with us today that made Wildwood famous like the Satellite, Frontier, Sea Rose, Casa Bahama, Three Coins, Ebb Tide, The Carousel, The Blue Jay, Tahiti, Hawaii Kai, Rio, Kona Kai, Hi-Lili & The Swan Motels. Included also will be some of the classic motels of Seaside Heights like the Aztec and Asbury Park like the Metropolitan also in future releases. All the motels will feature lighted (and possibly animates) "EL" signs that made them famous, colored neon and spot lighting just like the buildings had. Each one will have the features that they had in their day. The first release of the series is scheduled for a Mid to Late Summer 2009
date. Other releases in the series will be one
Special releases of the series like the Palace Amusements and the Atlantic City Steel Pier (Proposed) will be announced on the sites homepage. These pieces with be made in very limited numbers and will only be available on a "First Come - First Served" basis. They will be suitable for a very large O scale layout, collectors or museum piece. Certain other pieces in the series will also be available only in limited quantities too like some of the Doo-Wop Motel series, boardwalk stores and certain amusements. This is a great series with a lot of pre-production planning and research going into it. Like our Schenectady series of O scale buildings, no detail will be left behind. From the lighting, to the smallest detail. If you have a O scale layout, a fan or collector of vintage amusement items or just a memory of your childhood, this is the series for you ! Please Note: THERE IS NO PRE-ORDER
FOR ANY PART OF THE JERSEY BOARDWALK SERIES. We have quite a few Any future updates on this will be updated on this page prior to release. Thanks again for the interest in this series .
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Keansburg
, to the former Palace Amusements in Asbury Park, to America's Playground & the
Steel Pier In
Atlantic City, to Hunt's Pier in Wildwood it was summer at it's best. The is
right, Jersey has the best boardwalks in the world (Sorry California and
Maryland). Even Forbes Magazine thinks so too with 5 of the 10 boardwalk
in the worlds (
popular boardwalk businesses on the Jersey Shore. Even some OFF-THE-BOARDS
businesses will be created and available in limited runs like Ed Zaber's
Angelsea Inn, Urie's Motel, & Fish Fry, Barney's of Seaside Hts., PRSL Station
building of Atlantic City & Wildwood. The PRR station in Seaside Hts. & North
Asbury Park will also be made.
to
four pieces per month after that.
inquiries about this and a lot of people and originations about reserving and
preordering part of the series. Like stated above, it will be on a "First
Come - First Served" basis. It will be announced on the site well in
advance for the release dates.