Thursday, July 06, 2006

Memories

I started getting nostalgic today and am missing a lot of the hotels, motels, and restaurants of Wildood and Wildwood Crest, NJ. Almost 100 motels have been torn down in place of condos since 2002. That's only four years ago.

Here is a great site where you can see 400 pictures of Wildwood people have contributed

Wildwood slideshow

The Captains table restaurant, gone. Satellite motel, Surfside restaurant, Hialeah motel, Aladdin motel, The Patio motel, Lurae Motel, Carousel motel, Siesta motel, Kurtz's restaurant all gone and I can go on and on. Many classic boardwalk rides are also gone. The Log Flume, Golden Nugget (standing but doesn't run), Dracula's castle, etc. It's sad-these some of people's happiest memories-all being sold for profit. Too many condos, the architecture of these unique hotels is gone.

The La Vita motel was sold a few months ago for over 3 million dollars. It isn't much to look at, but they will put luxury condos in it's place. The town is now over built with condos and they aren't even selling!!! I want to see if I can get an old postcard from there before it closes. In the summer of 1969, the La Vita was taking photographs for new postcards. They took a few shots of my husband's family and used it as their new postcard! My mother in law has one copy. I am trying to get one for us. My husband was three. His parents were in it (his mother pregnant with his brother) and his grandparents. How cool is that. When the LaVita closes (probably after this season) a piece of family history will be gone.

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