"Endangered" Doo Wop from AP on Yahoo news

[fuzzyscorpio]

news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20060522/ap_tr_ge/travel_brief_endangered_places

Yahoo picked up this AP story yesterday and a friend of mine sent it to me knowing how strongly I feel about what may be the saddest story of condomania ever told.

I hope the exposure helps.

[homer]

Welcome, Fuzzy!
Thanks for the post. (JIMD posted it previously, but we'll let you slide this time.)

You'll find some great Wildwood trivia on this board...some real serious Wildwood afficionados post here. Make sure you browse through some of the older threads.

In the meantime, here are some links to previous articles and "Doo Wop" coverage:

• Preservation Group Trying To Save Doo Wop Motels
  Video news clip - NBC 10
  
• For Jersey Shore's Endangered Motels, Recognition But No Solution
  WNBC.com article
  
• Tacky motels? No, treasures
  Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/11/2006
  
• Doo Wop Motels | 2006 11 Most Endangered Places
  The National Trust for Historic Preservation site
  
• Roadside Peek : Preservation Alley and Wildwood Motels
  A site dedicated to "roadside treasures."
  
• Preservation Online: Story of the Week Archives: It's a Wild World
  NHTP's online mag covered Doo Wop in 2005
  
• Doo Wop by the Sea
  Smithsonian Mag, 2003
  
• Learning from Steve Izenour
  His obituary from "Metropolis Magazine"
  
• TURF; Be-Bop-a-Lula, Wildwood's My Baby
  NY Times article from 2000
  
• Preserving Doo-Wop
  From ArchtectureWeek, 2001
  
• A Shore Fling
  NHTP's online mag, 2001
  
• Mining Wildwood's Pleasures
  Metropolis Mag, 1998 - contains the famous quote:

  "Wildwood's businesspeople are the biggest bunch of idiots on the Jersey Shore, and you can quote me on that--just don't include Jack Morey."

  - NY Times Journalist Joe Sharkey

  
  

[fuzzyscorpio]

Thanks Homer. Apologies for the very late reply. I just didn't feel up to it. Sometimes it is so acutely painful to contemplate what has happened to the Wildwoods that I wonder why I don't just forget about them, but of course, I can't as long as there are still pieces left of the place I have known and so deeply loved for more than half a century! I just finished transcribing my audio notes from last August's trip--I had recorded a little travelog while driving around to help me with hotel selection for this year--and listening to it wipes out any notions of foregoing the annual visit. I just hope I can still get something decent for biker weekend... I have seen some of these pages that you linked. The Roadside Peek pages were heart-rending. I saved their photo of the Rio Motel, since I'm not sure I have one of my own. The only photo I know I have is of the pile of dirt that remained last year when I got down there just after it had been razed.