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Post by Robert on Apr 25, 2006 15:32:19 GMT -5
www.angelfire.com/nj/wwbysea/MIDWAY/IMAGES/TT.JPG You can see the roller coaster and Castle Dracula in the background so it had to be sometime between 1977-1984. The Castle opened in 1977 and the the roller coaster was torn down fall 1984. It looks like there was a fire on the boardwalk, all the people standing there and you can see burnt ruins. What fire was that?
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Post by crazyaboutwildwood on Apr 25, 2006 16:22:24 GMT -5
Figure out what year the tubes of terror were there and you might just have your awnser. They are in the background of your picture. They were only there for like a year or two. Contessa Anisha would know this awnser.
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Post by ContessaAnisha on Apr 25, 2006 16:38:52 GMT -5
Not sure but it's the Snow White fire(I think)...'79 or 80...probably no later than 81...when I get all my stuff back, I might have a similar photo wit a date on it.
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Post by rosiebear on Apr 25, 2006 16:54:15 GMT -5
Not sure, if it is the Snow White fire that occured Firemen's weekend, 1982. Lost in that fire was Snow White, Grandpa's Restaurant, Arthur's Tee shirts and the Fun Shop. That was 3600 Boards and was ruled arson. It does look like it could be a block North though. I was thinking maybe Variety Corner but not too sure. Hard to tell from that picture.
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Post by JerseyDigger29 on Apr 25, 2006 21:49:19 GMT -5
Hey, guys - If this fire was in the early 80's, I wouldn't know since I was attending Glassboro State College (Rowan U) from 80 to 86 (some summers, too) so I didn't see the fire. However, I'm probably 95 to 99 percent certain it's the first block south of the Jack Rabbit. (Schellenger to Lincoln). I don't remember any fire in the Variety Corner section. And since I worked at the Regent Theater as a Hunts usher in the 60's, I can tell you that the Boardwalk Mall at Garfield Ave. is the original movie theater. Except for renovating the inside of the building the frame of the building is still the original Theater. (From a distance at certain angles, you can see the theater's roof. The air conditioner building on the roof still looks like I remember. The ushers and projectionists used to hang out on the roof during the movies sometimes. You got there through the projection booth area). I think from the picture, its the Snow White block and the people in the photo are standing approximately in the middle of the block. Hope I'm not wrong - Thom ps - I just looked at it a little closer. I'm pretty sure I'm right. Those steel girders in the middle right of the photo are where Bobby Dees is now. This is definitely NOT Variety Arcade.
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Post by rosiebear on Apr 26, 2006 6:05:51 GMT -5
If it is the first block south of Jack rabbit then it is not Snow White. Could there have been a fire at Booby Dee's? Maybe they rebuilt it??? I may have mixed that up with Variety Corner.
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Post by crazyaboutwildwood on Apr 26, 2006 7:36:10 GMT -5
Wasnt the origanal snow white in that block? It was a smaller store then the one today. It was in the middle.
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Post by JerseyDigger29 on Apr 26, 2006 11:53:22 GMT -5
If it is the first block south of Jack rabbit then it is not Snow White. Could there have been a fire at Booby Dee's? Maybe they rebuilt it??? I may have mixed that up with Variety Corner. It's hard to tell what was there and when if we don't know the actual year of the fire. Wait a minute, I have a photo of that block from the museum: Based on the hair style on the two guys to the right, this photo is from the 70's. It does show some of the original stores that had been there in the past. I know Bobby Dees was something else many years ago, I just can't remember what. I also know that Snow Whites had at one time been a candy store - Sagels, I think. But this is deifinitely the block across from the Information Center. This picture shows Snow Whites in the background like it is today so maybe the fire didn't take the entire block, maybe just two thirds or something. If someone can place the actual year of the fire, we'll be able to tell when Snow Whites replaced Sagels Candy and when Bobby Dees took over the northern corner of the block. Thom
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Post by crazyaboutwildwood on Apr 26, 2006 14:01:48 GMT -5
But I remember seeing snow white in a smaller version like in the middle of a bunch of stores and not on the corner.
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Post by rosiebear on Apr 26, 2006 17:31:46 GMT -5
I worked at Grandpa's Restaurant in the late 70's until Sept. 1982 when the block burnt down. At that time, Snow White was at the end of the block at Garfield Ave. The picture Jerseydigger posted is exactly how that blocked looked in 1982 when it burnt down. I still am not postive that the picture Robert posted is the block between Lincoln and Garfeild though. Sorta looks like it could be the block between Schellenger and Lincoln. Thanks for posting the picture, Jerseydigger. It brought back some wonderful memories of summers at Grandpa's.
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Post by wildwanderer on Apr 26, 2006 19:58:37 GMT -5
Grandpas what a great place. And Grandmas too.
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Post by JerseyDigger29 on Apr 26, 2006 22:00:59 GMT -5
I worked at Grandpa's Restaurant in the late 70's until Sept. 1982 when the block burnt down. At that time, Snow White was at the end of the block at Garfield Ave. The picture Jerseydigger posted is exactly how that blocked looked in 1982 when it burnt down. I still am not postive that the picture Robert posted is the block between Lincoln and Garfeild though. Sorta looks like it could be the block between Schellenger and Lincoln. Thanks for posting the picture, Jerseydigger. It brought back some wonderful memories of summers at Grandpa's. Thanks, Rosiebear. Grandpa's and Grandma's were great restaurants, as was the French Quarter just off of Magnolia Avenue, as well as Taubers Restaurant at Oak. You are definitely having a bit of "street dislexia," though. The picture of the fire we're talking about IS the block from Schellenger to Lincoln as you mentioned. (Directly across from the Wildwood Information Center). Snow Whites was, and still is, at the corner of Lincoln Avenue, not Garfield. Garfield Avenue is the corner with Falks jewelry store and the Boardwalk Mall (Regent Theater). I'm glad you identified the year of the fire as 1982, though. That year ties up with what Robert said about the JackRabbit being torn down in 1984. The fire was two year before that, then. Thom
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Post by rosiebear on Apr 27, 2006 6:44:17 GMT -5
You are right Thom-- I am a block off!!! Thank you!
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