She's 100 and Due to Get a Facelift

[MMM]

Yes, not good! I don't know what kind of wood was used there - hopefully they learned from that...

[CondorAlex]

Very true CV, that smell was from the flame-retardant they used on the wood. Hopefully it will be absent from the new boards once they are installed.

[Al Alven]

I remember when they used the same type of wood/flame retardant to replace a HUGE section of boards right in the middle of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, a few years back.

It stank, but, given that it was in AC, the smell kind of blended in with the surrounding, um, "aromas."

Still, can you imagine any main section of the WW Boardwalk stinkin' like Seaport did? That would be something...

[wildwanderer]

I'll bring a saw, I plan to take a piece of the boardwalk home with me. Don't forget that wood lightens with the sun over time. I don't know much about Brazilian wood but other woods get better over time. Hardwoods that is.

[wildre]

The Boyer use to sell boards from the boardwalk, wonder if they still do?

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[beachrat]

If I recall correctly, a lot of the current boardwalk wood should date back to an overhaul done in the early 70's, when they replaced large sections with wood from President Nixon's inaugural stands. I remember signs posted here and there along the boards proclaiming the "inauguration walk"

Anyone else remember this?

[dreamer2u]

I was reading that the board walk board replacement project will take up to 10 YEARS. There going to start this fall starting from schellenger's ave working there way up to north wildwood! keep your eye out for new news .

[dreamer2u]

Boardwalk bids delayed due to rainforest concerns!!! www.thewildwoodleader.com/pages_a/page_01.htm

[nance]

They should have done what they did in the late and early 1900's; lay them down in the summer and pick them up in the winter; maybe they would have lasted longer.