A Walk on the Wildwood Boardwalk in 1988

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  • @phillymanpete
    @phillymanpete Рік тому +10

    The time before the internet, personal computers, and mobile phones. The good old days!

  • @williammuntzer7374
    @williammuntzer7374 Рік тому +13

    Thanks for sharing this memory. My wife and I owned a home in North Wildwood from 1990 through 2004. Little Nicky's while on our way home from the beach. People watching abnd ice cream in the evenings. It was a wonderful time.

    • @phillymanpete
      @phillymanpete 6 місяців тому

      Little Nicky's was my favorite. We would stay at the Golden Rail and after the car was unpacked the first thing we did was to walk the block to the beach and get slices. I was upset when the owner decided to call it quits.

  • @fr3dr02
    @fr3dr02 10 місяців тому +4

    Exactly how I remember the Wildwood boardwalk 😢

  • @Pstevensperhaps
    @Pstevensperhaps Рік тому +5

    Such a precious moment in time. The boardwalk late 80's / early 90s at Wildwood is where my soul is and forever shall be! 🤓❤️ thank you for the sweet memories!

  • @frankd.4528
    @frankd.4528 Рік тому +4

    That brought back a lot of memories especially Hunt’s Pier, where we had to go on every ride like twice a night when we were there!

  • @docwillis1443
    @docwillis1443 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for posting. My parents used to take us there in the 80’s. Brings back memories. It was a better place then.

  • @infinite_vortex
    @infinite_vortex 2 роки тому +7

    This is truly magic, an amazing time capsule Bill. Thank you so much for sharing. Can't wait to see more footage. You've been doing great trip reports/observations for decades now!

  • @maggierybak3275
    @maggierybak3275 4 місяці тому +3

    Being able to see Dante's Inferno again after all of these years. ...you made my day!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

  • @robkrasinski6217
    @robkrasinski6217 2 роки тому +9

    One of the biggest hits of 1988 can be heard on Morey’s Pier here, Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. I heard it a lot on the radio then and the later singles Together Forever and Strong Strong Man also 1988.

    • @ahorsewithnoname773
      @ahorsewithnoname773 Рік тому +3

      I laughed when it got to that point. Unexpected Rickroll.
      I Would Die 4 U by Prince is heard at one point too.

    • @robkrasinski6217
      @robkrasinski6217 Рік тому

      I wanted to go back to Wildwood in 1988, we went in August 1982 and August 1983 with our late father who passed on March 8, 1986 from a car hitting him at night 2 miles from our house, he was walking. But my mom saw on the Philly news with Jim Gardner that needles and waste was washing up on NJ beaches so she said no to Wildwood and we went to Ocean City, MD for the first time. But we stayed in a newer hotel that opened the year before called Dunes Manor. We were driving around at night checking out different hotels. I didn’t ride Trimper’s Haunted House, Pirates Cove, or Morbid Manor walk through on the pier but I did go through a walk through haunted house and a fun house at Jolly Roger park as well as a train ride and a car ride on a track. I went through the Trimper Bill Tracy attractions in July 2000 as well as a dark ride at Jolly Roger and on the pier. I returned to Wildwood with our mom and her man friend who moved in with us early 1994 in Aug 1995, June 1996 and June 1998, and July 5-9, 2011. I did every remaining dark ride and haunted attraction during my return visits including Castle Dracula and Dungeon boat ride, Golden Nugget in 1996 and 1998 as well as Escape from Dinosaur Beach. Dante’s Inferno, Dark River, Casa Macabra on the three Morey’s Piers as well. And in 2011 Ghost Ship, Morbid Manor on Sportland Pier by Eric Princz which only lasted 2011-2012, some former Castle Dracula people worked there and a walk through inside Strand Theater, where Zombie World ride was, Curse of the Mummy 3D and Jersey Junkyard on Morey’s Wild Wheels former Fun Pier. That pier is getting a new look in the front and the dark attractions Morey’s added were removed after 2011. I missed out on the Whacky Shack on the former Hunt’s Pier, I didn’t ride it in early 80’s and it was SBNO and behind a white wood wall across the pier in Aug 1995. Only the front of the pier was open that year and it mostly had kiddie rides. Then it was Dinosaur Beach for three years then the Morey’s bought it.

  • @peterkleinhenz
    @peterkleinhenz 2 роки тому +5

    This is incredible! I am so, so bummed that I wasn't around to see this because all of the Bill Tracy attractions must have been amazing. I know it's unreasonable, but part of me hopes that at least one of these attractions will be recreated someday.

    • @robkrasinski6217
      @robkrasinski6217 Рік тому +3

      Well, make Randy Senna an offer to use the Whacky Shack props and maybe cars in a new Whacky Shack. He has most of the props and a few cars in his boardwalk arcade on shelves. The props are like the lady that was sawn in half and the clock, not sure if he has the Knit Wit. Maybe you would be better off building a new building with Sally cars and track, and using some of the old props mixed with new ones. You would probably have to build your dark ride on Sportland Pier since Morey's probably aren't going to entertain such an idea. Sportland once had Dr. Blood's House of Horror from the 70's to 1983, and it sat closed from 1984 to early 2007 when it was razed but props and cars were saved from it and Randy stored the props in his Randyland building in the old Woolworth.

  • @chevalierjd
    @chevalierjd Рік тому +1

    Bill, thank you sir! I have sooo many memories from being a kid and visiting Wildwood over the summer school break. Nothing more exciting than helping my Dad to pack up the station wagon and we'd go to the shore for a week with other families from my Philly neighborhood! I still remember the salt air, taffy, and skee-ball arcades!

  • @kpbaltimore
    @kpbaltimore 2 роки тому +1

    This brings back so many memories. Loved the Mountain Magic Leather Shop.

  • @robkrasinski6217
    @robkrasinski6217 2 роки тому +3

    I’m glad you guys documented all this stuff that isn’t there anymore including Hunt’s Pier and Castle Dracula. I’m building different years of Wildwood boardwalk and piers in this game Planet Coaster and I tried in RollerCoaster 1-3 but I started over in Planet Coaster. But you can’t make a proper ocean in Planet Coaster because of the landscape border which can’t be altered. In RCT3 you can make the water go to the horizon if you place it at a certain height. Then it looks like the ocean. RCT3 and Planet Coaster are made by the same developer and are 3D. The first two RCT’s are isometric. You can ride the rides in RCT3 and Planet. There’s also Parkitect which can be 3D and the rides can be ridden.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  2 роки тому

      I'm glad you documented the wildwood boardwalk during your visits Robert.

  • @DirtyMovies76
    @DirtyMovies76 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing! I could watch this all day

  • @markaraujo26
    @markaraujo26 5 місяців тому

    wow this brings me right back to the vacations with my grandparents thx u so much for posting 👍

  • @SCUBONZIES
    @SCUBONZIES 4 місяці тому

    Thank you ,

  • @Briboski1979
    @Briboski1979 Рік тому

    I love these videos! Thank you for sharing

  • @ericbitzer5247
    @ericbitzer5247 4 місяці тому

    I was there that summer and was 17 years old. I remember all those things on the boardwalk and across the street from the big building by the Funcade is where we stayed called Sans Souci. Some of the best times of my life.

  • @gregorycoates9643
    @gregorycoates9643 Рік тому +4

    I remember the terrible smell while walking and shopping on Seaport Pier. Never knew where it was coming from.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому +3

      I remember someone telling me it was from the type of wood they used...a red wood.

    • @MagneticNorthbound
      @MagneticNorthbound 7 місяців тому

      Lmaooooo----that is a memory we share. Always felt bad for the vendors who must have gotten locked into that poop-smell-cycle.

  • @MichaelWagner-o3i
    @MichaelWagner-o3i 5 місяців тому

    Wow I was there that whole summer after graduation, seems like yesterday. Thanks for posting this

  • @davidhibbs6989
    @davidhibbs6989 Рік тому +1

    It's strange that I was here just this past August for the first time since 1978' and their was only 2 things still here on the boardwalk since I came here back in the 60's and 70's with my parents. And that is mack's pizza and Laura's fudge! Everything else is 100% different. Hunts Pier long gone and all of the rides that I remember and only half of the people and very heavy police presence. Completely different era now! Another 40 years from now everyone will be saying the same thing about their era!

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому +1

      There are more places on the boardwalk that would have been there in the 70s. Douglass Fudge has been in that same location for a long time. The Kohrs brother's at 26th Ave is still the original building. Snow White has been at its location since then.

  • @DelbertSting-th7if
    @DelbertSting-th7if 5 місяців тому +1

    Everyone mentions Mack’s. Does anyone remember sorrento 1,2,3,and 4?

  • @chiaralistica
    @chiaralistica Рік тому +1

    Remembering a night at the boards where my brother had ro ride the tilt-a-whirl, then promptly went and vomited over the railing onto the go kart track. You could hear people screaming. I warned him against riding but you know how that goes... I still feel bad about that.

  • @DelbertSting-th7if
    @DelbertSting-th7if 5 місяців тому

    I started going there with my parents and sister in the late 70s as a small child. We stayed at the concad’or and bal harbor. What a wonderful time to be alive. I spent my days in the pool and arcade and my nights at the boardwalk. My father loved Ed Zaberers. We would always go during the last week of July into august. How magical it was to arrive in wildwood after a six hour drive and cross the bridge. The first thing we saw to indicate we were arriving in vacationland was uries reef and beef on the right and shortly after we would start to see boardwalk. It was always hot and sunny when we were there. I miss those times so much.

  • @garbo8962
    @garbo8962 Рік тому +1

    Does anybody remember the guy Lou something who used to sing at end of seaport pier on weekends? He was originally from south Philly and heard he is performing out west. Have a couple of his great cassette tapes that he used to sell. We used to stay at both the beach court & beach cove hotels at 20 th street just off the boardwalk. Can remember back in the 1960's getting Mack pizza for 25¢ a slice and during weekday lunches we would get Nates Hot dog special think it was 4 or 5 for only a $1.

  • @catherinehardway9016
    @catherinehardway9016 5 місяців тому

    Wow, what a blast from the past! I just went to Wildwood last week for the first time since 1884, and Iwas amazed by all the changes! The motel my family stayed in on 20th is gone now, the whole block is now luxury condos. Hunts pier is gone, and so are all the prize wheel games. But some parts of Wildwood haven't changed. Douglass fudge is still a treat, the beach is still big and wide and, oh yeah, "Watch the tram car, please!"

  • @owlnswan4016
    @owlnswan4016 10 місяців тому

    This is wonderful. Thank you Bill and Seph.

  • @capincrnchy
    @capincrnchy Рік тому

    I lived in N. Wildwood 1983-1991..... basically lived on the boardwalk (and later worked there when I got old enough) in the summers. I remember a school buddy and I walking around seaport village shortly after it opened, but before the main season began... also, my mother was kicked out of Ed's Funcade "for life" because she allegedly hipchecked one of the quarter stacker games...so many memories... thank you for sharing.

  • @JohnSmith-wv5km
    @JohnSmith-wv5km Рік тому +1

    Fascinating how it's both so different and so similar now

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому

      Good observation...I agree.

    • @gmsvalley
      @gmsvalley Рік тому +2

      I have been going to Wildwood since 1975, every year we try to spot the changes from the previous year. It was fun to compare 1988 to 2023, I came back yesterday. If I add up all the days spent in Wildwood, I have lived there more than one year. The biggest difference now is that Wildwood is no longer a cheap place to stay, 5$ ice cream on the beach, funnel cake 8-10$, Curley's fries 17$, pizza slice $3. I am not talking about the price to stay, Wildwood is no exception, like everywhere, it is very expensive, the best way to save money is to travel with family to split the Motel in half. People ask me why I still go there, it is a bit of nostalgy, nice beach, boardwalk, a bit of shopping at 5$ or less, Ross dress for less, Dollar Tree, Walmart. Coming from Canada, sometimes we find good deals, but we pay $1.37 to get $1 us dollar, we have to keep that in mind.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому

      @@gmsvalley It's expensive traveling anywhere anymore. Combining your vacation with extended family is a good idea.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому

      @@gmsvalley You should join my Wildwood Facebook Group...I've been posting lots of now and then photos: facebook.com/groups/1508910293246623/

  • @DelbertSting-th7if
    @DelbertSting-th7if 5 місяців тому

    It was always slow like that during the day and shoulder to shoulder at night.

  • @ColeWalker
    @ColeWalker Рік тому

    Do you know if anymore footage exists of the animatronics that were in Castle Dracula? Also any clips of Shamron with working audio?

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому +1

      Stay tuned for documentary on Castle Dracula that we plan on releasing next month. Shamron was a static prop that was not animated.

  • @gantmj
    @gantmj Рік тому

    This brings me back to the old amateur VHS recording days when I used to yell "zoom out" the whole time. Ah, nostalgia.

  • @neilonicko1
    @neilonicko1 Рік тому +1

    thats the year I learned how to start swimming at the Tangiers in 1988..

    • @beingmyself000
      @beingmyself000 6 місяців тому

      That’s funny. It was also in the late 80’s that I learned to swim at the Sunflower Motel.

  • @JordanO8
    @JordanO8 4 місяці тому

    Anyone recall what the pirate thing was at the end? I vaguely remember it being a walkthrough?

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  4 місяці тому +1

      That was the Skua Pirate Ship on Hunt's Pier. It was a walk-through attraction that was part fun house, part dark ride. It was our favorite attraction on the pier and I still miss it.

  • @MindofSmoothie
    @MindofSmoothie Рік тому

    Another great one! I do regret being a scaredy cat and never riding the Whacky Shack . Even when I was a little older and it was Hunt's Horrors never did it. I love the more "recent" videos, knowing that if any of the videos were filmed after the first week after the 4th of July, that there is a chance that I could have been walking on the boards right past the person filming. I think I would shit if I ever came across a video and saw me or my family in the background.

  • @Dylan-Hooton
    @Dylan-Hooton Рік тому +1

    Cool! Do you have footages for the Halloween Horror Nights 1986 at Universal Studios Hollywood or the Halloween Horror Nights 2000 event at Universal Studios Florida?

  • @ElleCee62978
    @ElleCee62978 4 місяці тому

    My grandmother loved the Grand Smorgasbord. I swear that is my mom at 11:40. It looked just like her.

  • @sjtom57
    @sjtom57 7 місяців тому

    So many memories, both happy and sad.

  • @rogerrendzak8055
    @rogerrendzak8055 Рік тому +3

    Back when, the Wildwood boardwalk was interesting, and had diversity. Back when all the piers weren't all owned, by one family, with 'one track'($), ideas😒.

  • @VL-co1ij
    @VL-co1ij Рік тому +6

    Who remembers the seaport village smell?😮

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому +3

      How could you forget? I think that was one of the reasons the pier didn't survive.

    • @garbo8962
      @garbo8962 Рік тому

      Smelled for what a year. Somebody said it was from the fire resistant plywood.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому +1

      @@garbo8962 Smelled until the day they tore down the pier.

    • @kpbaltimore
      @kpbaltimore 7 місяців тому

      The worst! 🤢

    • @laurelfryberger8460
      @laurelfryberger8460 6 місяців тому

      OMG I thought that was just me!!

  • @frankpfaff9675
    @frankpfaff9675 Рік тому

    I used to stay on 19th at the Malibu which is still there. Went to little nickys pizza alot and remember the seaport village and Ed funcade and everything else. Great times and memories. That frog game also by Morey's pier was still there as of last year and I don't think they ever changed the devices you hit to flip the frogs up.

    • @sylvania104
      @sylvania104 Рік тому

      I lived in 1900 Boardwalk in 1985-1989

  • @joelashadali
    @joelashadali Рік тому +1

    Great times in our early 20s running rampant in wildwood lol....lots n lots of stories
    Casbah
    Fairview
    Shamrock
    Sundance
    Stardust
    Quo Vadis
    $10 rooms in boarding houses
    Buses from philly
    Friends with seasin long rentals

  • @austinsteiner9363
    @austinsteiner9363 7 місяців тому

    Do you happen to have any footage from the 90s recorded in Sussex County NJ? Or anywhere in northern NJ?

  • @redrubyslippers8284
    @redrubyslippers8284 Рік тому

    Those definitely were the days!!😅❤❤❤

  • @robkrasinski6217
    @robkrasinski6217 2 роки тому

    Bill, or Seph, do you know if that one floor haunted house that was on Morey’s Pier through 1991 was there in 1988 or did it arrive in 1989? The old three floor haunted house opened 1972 and was razed after 1984.

  • @russellziske7385
    @russellziske7385 Рік тому

    Was the Bon Aire inn still there?

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому

      I don't remember the Bon Aire Inn. Where was that?

  • @rick3747
    @rick3747 Рік тому

    In the mid 1990s, does anyone remember the pizza place near the old roof top miniture golf? The pizza place had incredible fries served up in paper bags. They were even better than Curleys. I have been trying to remember what pizza place that was and what was the old roof top miniture golf for years now.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому

      If it was the pizza place near the Bella Vista it was Mike's Pizza. We used to get pizza there sometimes.

    • @rick3747
      @rick3747 Рік тому

      @@DarkinthePark
      I don't remember Mike's. I also thought it could possibly be Angelo's as they even had a "fresh cut fries" sign on their storefront.

  • @thegodofmusic04
    @thegodofmusic04 Рік тому

    5:51 that may or may not be me 😂😂😂 what was the date of this video

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому

      I don't know the exact date of the recording....I didn't write it down way back when.

  • @JamesDimond-l7u
    @JamesDimond-l7u 4 місяці тому

    Why is Wildwood so Dangerous Now?

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  4 місяці тому

      @@JamesDimond-l7u I don't think it's dangerous.

    • @JamesDimond-l7u
      @JamesDimond-l7u 4 місяці тому

      @@DarkinthePark bc youre a criminal

  • @bradbel
    @bradbel Рік тому

    If you were alive during this time (in the “West”) just listen. Close your eyes and listen.

  • @jamessager5358
    @jamessager5358 4 місяці тому

    Watched it for the 1 in 10,000,000 chance I might have seen my 11 year old self there. Did not see old me. Or young me...

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  4 місяці тому +1

      That would have been neat if you did!

    • @jamessager5358
      @jamessager5358 4 місяці тому

      @@DarkinthePark I see him every day anyway, I haven't changed since then. Video games, God and friends, everything else is bonus.

  • @Droodog127
    @Droodog127 2 роки тому +2

    I wish Bozo was working lol those late 80's ones were crude , I started working NWPD summer 89' and 90' think we had 2 or 3 of them in the mug books in makeup 🤡

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  2 роки тому +1

      Yeah....I always remember Bozo when he was at the front of Sportland Pier. He really knew how to draw a crowd.

    • @DirtyMovies76
      @DirtyMovies76 2 роки тому

      “High and dry, high and dry”

    • @realmccoy
      @realmccoy Рік тому

      Wow one of my family members was a cop in NWW during those years. Do u remember Tony Cardella?

  • @judycriblear7615
    @judycriblear7615 Рік тому

    Does anyone remember the run away train.😊

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Рік тому

      Do you mean the Golden Nugget on Hunts Pier? If so, yes.