Memories from my childhood! Every summer we would visit Asbury Park for a week.  We stayed at a rooming house on 5th Avenue across from Sunset lake.  This was late 50's early 60's.  It was great to walk on the boardwalk every night, it was booming from one end to the other.  We would go to the Monte Carlo Pool during the day.  I remember those yellow fountains in the pool, they looked like giant lemons.  We would walk through the tunnel to the beach.  There was a "taylor ham" restaurant on the boardwalk which I didn't like to eat then but I would love now.

In the evening we would start walking at the Howard Johnson's and take "chances" to win stuffed animals, watch the barkers trying to sell those cutting tools or knives or whatever they were, and play miniature golf.  Madame Marie, who recently passed away,  was telling fortunes.  We would walk down to the carousel and the swan ride on the lake and then into the pavilion that had the big picture of the smiling guy on the outside and ride the carousel in there too.  I would LOVE to see Asbury Park, after so many false starts,  return to its splendor. It IS the same ocean as LBI or Wildwood, I hope it happens.