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Post by phillyrabbit on Feb 15, 2005 9:37:06 GMT -5
;D
When we were all young (including me...LMAO) who could afford.....or find, for that matter a motel room in WW in the summer? I think most of those old converted houses to motels used to pretty much get rented out by the week or the whole season anyway.
By the time I reached my late teens and it was time to go look for those south philly girls who were sooooooo friendly once they got away from home and went......down the shore, just wondering how many of you guys would finally end the night checked into the Chevy, Ford, Dodge, Mercury, Edsel ;D, Pinto ;D, Camaro ;D motel along the parkway bout 2-3-4-am?
Remember how the police would just let you snooze the night away knowing you were better off parked than driving?
Then there was also........what's that old song------Under the boardwalk.........down by the seeeeeeeeaaa?
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Post by Al Alven on Feb 15, 2005 10:33:57 GMT -5
Ah, the good times! Good times, indeed...  |
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Post by FlyinGN on Feb 15, 2005 10:34:39 GMT -5
not me dude. I somehow managed to get a room no matter. Hey, what happened if I found a lil lady in a club?? Was I gonna take her back to my Torino..?? Hardly:)  Frank |
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Post by Al Alven on Feb 15, 2005 10:42:23 GMT -5
Frank was always a MAN WITH A PLAN!  |
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Post by FlyinGN on Feb 15, 2005 11:22:10 GMT -5
heh heh
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Post by Eunice on Feb 15, 2005 12:18:24 GMT -5
You guys are a bunch of pigs.  |
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Post by Eunice on Feb 15, 2005 12:20:35 GMT -5
Oh, and it is Chevrolet. Challenged by (very) basic spelling?
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Post by phillyrabbit on Feb 15, 2005 12:23:18 GMT -5
not me dude. I somehow managed to get a room no matter. Hey, what happened if I found a lil lady in a club?? Was I gonna take her back to my Torino..?? Hardly:) Frank lucky stiff (no pun intended..... ;D) You musta been from the main line. I remember going down there with a couple other guys with no more than 5-10 bucks in my wallet. And part of that had to go for gas......LMAO.... ;D |
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Post by phillyrabbit on Feb 15, 2005 12:25:31 GMT -5
Oh, and it is Chevrolet. Challenged by (very) basic spelling? well, now you know why I had 5-10 bucks.....LMAO ;D |
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Post by Eunice on Feb 15, 2005 13:41:19 GMT -5
I will say my piece and then I will leave it alone. This thread is EXACTLY the reason why the Wildwoods have become known as a sleazy place. I'm sure the motel owners who are struggling to survive would be delighted to read your stories of picking up girls on the boardwalk and trying to check in to their motels for a romp in the hay. This is why for years Wildwood struggled to bring back families, for a large part without success. Some of you who have posted have also delighted in your wholesome family vacations with your own children. Do you enjoy it when your motel becomes a seedy rent-by-the-night place to bring your "end of the night find?" Sounds kind of pathetic to me.  Some of you who have posted on this thread surprise me. You have written so eloquently about issues surrounding the survival of doo wop architecture, and yet you stoop to this level. Have you not heard of email? If you really need to re live your teenage exploits, can't you at least do it in private? |
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Post by AnthonyV on Feb 15, 2005 14:36:05 GMT -5
Eunice,
I understand what tyou are saying but the entire scenario described above happens to be part of the lore of the Jersey Shore. It's simply another variation of being young and basically "in lust" during an earlier period of our lives when our hormones were out of control.
There is an entire "under the boardwalk" culture that many people here fondly recall, even if it might seem offensive today to some, which is part of almost every beach resort community that can not be denied. Whether or not it seems distasteful or not depends on the reader's way of thinking.
It's all very innocent and fun and you shouldn't regard it as distatseful because those stories are also a huge part of many of our Wildwood summer memories. The early 1960s gave way to dozens of "beach blanket" films featuring Frankie and Annette that dealt with that topic (SEX) exclusively in a very insinuating but discreet way. Hell, A SUMMER PLACE (made in the late 1950s ) was perhaps the PEYTON PLACE of all summer themed films and was expanded upon even further in WHERE THE BOYS ARE. Those films by themselves were nothing but "under the boardwalk" stories that evolved around sex and differed very little than the innocent stories mentioned here.
The Wildwoods became a sleazy place back in the 1970s and '80s because of social distractions and economic plight and an inability to correct it's community problems in a constructive manner like many other shore communities such as Ft. Lauderdale, Seaside Heights, and Asbury Park which has only recently has begun to refine itself along the Jersey Shore.
Where there are teenagers and young people there is bound to be sex - it''s a fact as clear as the constitution and as old as the scriptures.
Life is way too short to be bound by overly conservative ways of thinking - especially when it involves young people and summertime. I certainly don't look at that time in my life as something embarassing or offensive as much as it was innocent and I was desperate and infatuated with any female wearing a bathing suit.
Please don't take things so seriously...Even if it's not your idea of fun reading these stories, to others here those things bring back good memories from our past regardless of what those memories might involve.
Like Bob Dylan once said in a song: "You're right from your side and I'm right from mine."
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Post by Al Alven on Feb 15, 2005 14:46:07 GMT -5
Things can get lost in translation on a message board sometimes.
Eunice, I can’t speak for anyone else, but I am sorry that I might have offended you in any way whatsoever through anything I have said (or inferred) here.
My first post in this thread was merely a nod to memories I have of scrounging up every last dollar I had and going to extreme measures to get to/stay in the Wildwoods during my formative years.
They were tough times, in a sense, having little money and no place to stay. But, it’s fun looking back, because those pilgrimages of years past remind me of how much the resort meant (and continues to mean) to me.
My response was not at all a reference to picking up girls or engaging in any other kind of un-family-like or “seedy” activity. I can see how it might have been interpreted as such, now that I have re-read phillyrabbit’s opening post, however.
And, again, I apologize if you were offended in any way.
Having said all of that, however, I don’t have a problem with the subject or intentions of this thread either. We were all young at one time, and, well, our experiences were what they were.
I am always interested in hearing about others’ Wildwoods experiences, for better or worse.
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Post by FlyinGN on Feb 15, 2005 15:00:51 GMT -5
actually I grew up in Bucks county.. Holland to be exact.. Frank lucky stiff (no pun intended..... ;D) You musta been from the main line. I remember going down there with a couple other guys with no more than 5-10 bucks in my wallet. And part of that had to go for gas......LMAO.... ;D |
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Post by FlyinGN on Feb 15, 2005 15:06:22 GMT -5
Eunice-- you need to get a clue.. I was joking. I was not serious.. If this kinda joking bothers you you need to get a grip on life..
Frank
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Post by phillyrabbit on Feb 16, 2005 10:20:58 GMT -5
Just kidding Frank. Geez, I really didn't mean to offend anybody here. This was supposed to be a fun thread. There's probably not a more conservative guy than me aroud but like everybody else, I was once a teenager too.
And there's always going to be a fond memory for me as long as I last, my boy to man period of my life and alot of it while........down the shore.
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