scca28
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Post by scca28 on Jul 21, 2006 23:32:00 GMT -5
I will always remember that feeling, after a 50 mile march up and down the boards, feet hurting, sunburn itching, belly full of cotton candy, pizza and god knows what else, and getting back to our single room to settle in for the night, full of anticipation of an early morning bike ride and breakfast at Uncle Lou's. Laying on the bed I could still hear and smell "Wildwood" coming through rusty screen. One such night, I'm laying there waiting for my dad to tuck us in, when I noticed through the window a red light in the distance, blinking slowly on top of a tower. I asked him "Dad, what's that light for?". He told me it's so airplanes don't crash into the tower. So, I asked him what the tower was for and he said "To hold up the light!".......I was awake half the night trying to figure that one out! My dad, always a jokester. Thanks for listening!
ps, I will be taping the replay of the NBC10 WW special on the 29th, I'm pretty sure he was in one of the scenes.
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Post by fuzzyscorpio on Jul 22, 2006 1:58:17 GMT -5
Nice... For some reason the "rusty screen" detail hit the bull's-eye. Thanks for stirring up the sounds, sights and scents of those great days.
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Post by wildwanderer on Jul 25, 2006 15:50:16 GMT -5
My memory: the door to our motel room with the window with sections of glass that open with a crank at the bottom.
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Post by FlyinGN on Jul 25, 2006 19:39:59 GMT -5
my memory.. The low hum of the ac unit and the smell of the salt air at night lying in bed.. The sound of people walking by the hotel room...
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Post by fuzzyscorpio on Jul 25, 2006 21:44:05 GMT -5
My memory: the door to our motel room with the window with sections of glass that open with a crank at the bottom. I loved those louvered doors. The way the little slats would let a ton of fragrant ocean air into your room if you had an opposing door or window open. The Madrid still had louver doors until a few years ago--I think they were replaced by whoever bought it in '02 or thereabouts. And the Mark I still had them last summer, but the guy who was at the desk the night I visited--I believe he was the owner, I was too shy to ask for some reason--said they would be replaced over the winter. I was so disappointed... The SeaGull had some louvered windows as of last year. I've been looking at houses in north Jersey for a while, and my heart irrationally skips a beat whenever I see one of the older colonials with a louvered porch, even if the house is a dump
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Post by wildwood4life on Jul 26, 2006 22:14:22 GMT -5
There is a small motel on 9th between Surf and Atlantic....The Cape Isle Court.....athey still have them. The motel is a real simple little place and the owners are GREAT people. We went there for the first time prolly in the late 1980's for vacation and returned every year until a few years ago when my grandmother moved to Wildwood. To this day I can go into a place in WW, say...maybe the Athen's pancake house or something to that effect and get a whift of the musty smell. My friends say man this stinks. and I kinda look at them with a confused look and say....hey thats WIldwood....It's supposed to smell like that!
It seems though in the Winter time, the entire island can smell like that. As strange as that may seem, I kinda like that smell. It reminds me that I'm in Wildwood and has almost become a signature scent on my trips. In the winter when I smell that, I stop and say to myself....hey I can smell it, summer will be here soon.
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Post by fuzzyscorpio on Jul 27, 2006 2:19:12 GMT -5
There is a small motel on 9th between Surf and Atlantic....The Cape Isle Court.....athey still have them. The motel is a real simple little place and the owners are GREAT people. We went there for the first time prolly in the late 1980's for vacation and returned every year until a few years ago when my grandmother moved to Wildwood. Cool, I'm going to put that on my list of things to check out this September. Hehe... you mean that aroma of perpetual dampness, right? Yeah, it's part of the package we love, just like the old fish factory scent used to be. ;D
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Post by FlyinGN on Jul 27, 2006 6:47:32 GMT -5
aroma of perpetual dampness..
I LOVE IT!! LOL
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scca28
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Post by scca28 on Jul 27, 2006 6:47:36 GMT -5
To this day I can go into a place in WW, say...maybe the Athen's pancake house or something to that effect and get a whift of the musty smell. My friends say man this stinks. and I kinda look at them with a confused look and say....hey thats WIldwood....It's supposed to smell like that! Isn't it funny, you enter your motel room for the first time and you think, wow, that's a lot of smell, I can't stay here. Then, you go out for the rest of your luggage, and by the time you return to your room, it smells as normal as your own home! I guess a true shore lover adapts well. Now, if I could just get used to the taste of the tap water there.....
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Post by choochoochuck on Jul 27, 2006 10:05:43 GMT -5
i always love to hear memories. i wish i could have expirienced them
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Post by Doowopper on Jul 27, 2006 12:29:50 GMT -5
I love the perpetual dampness salt air smell. Can't have a vacation at the shore without it!
Also, nothing says the Wildwood boardwalk more than the mingling smells of salt air, tar from the boards, pizza, funnel cake, and fries.
and of course the sound of the tramcar.
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Post by onehouseman on Jul 27, 2006 22:03:44 GMT -5
Old memories are great. We were lucky because our parents bought an old hotel on Poplar Ave. My brothers and I were allowed to live on the fourth floor. During the summer when we had all the windows opened we got the greatest breezes not only the cool ocean air but all the great smells from all the food cooking and the flashing lights of the boardwalk. Then again there were all those college girls that stayed that far back from the boards to save the money they were earning to go back to school....
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Post by wildwanderer on Jul 31, 2006 18:51:58 GMT -5
Gee, another memory just hit me. The billboard of the Marlboro Man cigarette/ad. Cowboy hat and all.
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Post by michael on Sept 4, 2006 3:07:44 GMT -5
Most of my earliest memories of Wildwood center around the motels that my family stayed at, the beach and Hunt's Pier. We vacationed at Wildwood every summer from 1965 (when I was just shy of being 2) till 1975, and took day trips there for many years after that. One thing I remember about The Golden Nugget that I've never seen mentioned anywhere since, was a trio of bow and arrow shooting Indians that used to pop up one after the other just before the mine car plunged into the Bottomless Shaft. They almost never seemed to all work. The skeletal prospector and horse later replaced them. Anyone else remember them?
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Post by wildwoodjms on Sept 6, 2006 5:01:01 GMT -5
we have doors like that at home. I joked with my husband after we drove out to get the motel articles from the Packard that I was going to paint the back door that color and put the room number up. Then we could have set the lawn furniture around it. Would have been fun, but have not done it yet!!
It gave a good story to talk about and brought a few laughs.
jackie
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