Some of my favorite memories were evenings on the boardwalk. I remember going with Larry, Bob, and Joe and playing pinball and video games, going on the rides, and then going to the ice cream shop that was at the one end of the Spinnaker buildings. The best part was that there were so many of us down there, it seemed like every time you turned around you were running into another aunt, uncle, or cousin! I always felt like we just took over Sea Isle, whether on the beach or on the board walk.
Does anyone remember that one 'ride' that was just a big cage and you'd use your body to create momentum and swing it back and forth and eventually get it going around in circles?? I can't believe more people didn't get hurt in that thing, it was a death trap! But I loved it nonetheless!!! I wonder if anyone has any pictures of those old amusements.
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I remember Maureen, Colleen, Kathleen Merrick, Michael Schlagel, Billy Casey, Linda Schlagel on the boardwalk at that jukebox and hearing Chicago tunes and Supreme tunes playing constantly. They were all having so much fun I couldn't wait to "catch" up to them years-wise. I remember Maureen's convertible Mustang and watching all of them drive away. I couldn't wait to grow up!!! As far as that cage thing - I can remember Aunt Queen trying it out with, I think, my Mom and being so scared for them. Does anyone remember if they got that cage to go around?
Wow - I remember that ride! (If you can call it a Ride!) It was very challenging and kept trying it until I could go all the way around! And once you got going, it was a breeze!! That's a nice memory! Thanks for thinking of it (and who knows 'what' made you think of it!! LOL)
FRANCES > Marianne Shlegle SolanJanuary 4, 2008 at 3:59pm
I remember Joyce, Linda and Pam at the jukebox at the end of the boardwalk, at that time, near the Braca. They would play "Sugar Pie Honey" and all kinds of motown songs all night. They had all kinds of boys surrounding them. Kathleen, Coleen, Michael and I would hide and watch them kiss the boys. Joyce was using her water colors to paint flowers on people. We always had something painted on our faces or elsewhere. Do you remember that Joyce? This goes back about 40 years...........woah.....................
Joyce Day Meuse > Maureen Day CampbellJanuary 3, 2008 at 8:44am
Sure, I remember dancing at the end of the boardwalk. It was some little restaurant down below the boardwalk. Stevie Wonder had his first hit we used to dance to, "Harmonica Man." And the Doors, "Come on Baby, Light My Fire." So much good music came out in those days. I realized they still play a lot of that same music in the summer at the shore. The hippies were just coming in. My mother and the aunts thought they were awful, but Grandmom said she liked them. She said of one, "he looks like Jesus." She was so great.
I remember doing face painting, but it was probably acrylics, as watercolors wouldn't have worked. I went up to the Ocean city boardwalk one night with a friend and met my first "real" hippie. She took us to her house and pierced our ears with a needle. We had strings in the holes to pull through to keep the holes open. When I went back to the Ford House and my mom saw it, she freaked out. She t old me my ears would get infected and fall off. I guess in those days it was considered lower class to have pierced ears. I laughed when she got her ears pierced later. I can't remember kissing boys, but if you say so. There was one guy who came up to me on the boardwalk and said, "Bet you a penny I can kiss you without touching you." Then he kissed me and gave me a penny. What a line. I did go out with him a bit. He had a boat and we went out on the back bay in it. Good times.
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I remember doing face painting, but it was probably acrylics, as watercolors wouldn't have worked. I went up to the Ocean city boardwalk one night with a friend and met my first "real" hippie. She took us to her house and pierced our ears with a needle. We had strings in the holes to pull through to keep the holes open. When I went back to the Ford House and my mom saw it, she freaked out. She t old me my ears would get infected and fall off. I guess in those days it was considered lower class to have pierced ears. I laughed when she got her ears pierced later. I can't remember kissing boys, but if you say so. There was one guy who came up to me on the boardwalk and said, "Bet you a penny I can kiss you without touching you." Then he kissed me and gave me a penny. What a line. I did go out with him a bit. He had a boat and we went out on the back bay in it. Good times.
This one looks like its mounted in some kind of museum or something!