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Mrs Jays, the Palace,and a magic kiss....
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In
the mid 1950's when we visited Asbury Park our family stayed
at cabins on the farm of Mr. & Mrs. Davis. These
cabins were about 20 minutes outside of Asbury Park.
I remember a field with cows behind the five or so log
cabins.
The
only landmark that my mother can remember is that we went to
the Neptune Restaurant when we were vacationing.
We
also visited Storyland on our way to this place. Can
anyone give me more information as to where this farm was
located and what may have happened to the property.
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The old
Homestead...
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I'm 66 yrs old & have lived in KY
for many years. However, I spent all my young summers with my
Aunt & Uncle in Wayne,
NJ. Some of my favorite memories are the trips we made to
Asbury
Park each year. The merry-go-round facinated me (&
they still do). We always ate at the Homestead Restaurant where
we could sit & watch the waves roll in. We walked the
boardwalk & always had to have a few boxes of Salt Water
Taffy to take home to remember our visit. I'm so glad Asbury
Park is being revitalized. I'm looking forward to
visiting again.
Jeane Layer
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On Life then and now....and Asbury
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Thank you for including my rambling on your website. It was nice
thinking about some of the old times. What they are doing there,
in AP, is pretty neat. Personally, I think we should be thinking
about Asbury
Park the way we could view the Steinbach building and
what has transpired there. It was constructed for one use, and
it served that purpose well. It was a wonderful place to shop.
The building is still wonderful, but not primarily as a place to
shop. Now it is a wonderful place to live, to consider home, to
watch TV in, to serve dinner to your loved ones, to feed the
hamster in, to clean out the refrigerator, maybe to take your
last gasping breath in. Who knows? Asbury
Park, in my opinion, shouldn't focus on returning to it's
former anything. As desirable as that may seem to us, the sad
reality is, It ain't happening. Those fantastic blow up
postcards in the Casino of Asbury
Park at the turn of the century are from a bygone, never
to be repeated era. People flocked to the ocean because they
were HOT.
They didn't have air conditioners. They didn't have a lot of
options of things to do, places to go. They dipped in the ocean
for pragmatic reasons as well as the aesthetic. (SIC?) The ocean
still draws us because it is magnificent, one of the wonders of
creation. But we have to think in terms of now, and the way our
reality is in this day. For instance, arcades are fun but how
many kids will play one of those games with an XBOX
360 in their room. Hey, we are a relatively poor family
and even we have PS2 XBox 2 360s and a big screen TV to play it
on. Am I going to go to the arcade and spend $2 to play a game
with the Live on at home that allows me to play games with kids
in Japan
or England or anywhere in the entire world? Sorry, see there I
go again rambling! I'm sorry the Mayfair is gone, but there is
nothing we can do about it. It is never coming back. They are
not going to build anything like it. And I guess they shouldn't.
It too, had its day and that day is gone. And so am I. I gotta
go to bed so I can rise with the sun. Thanks again. Kathleen
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