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Long before Bruce Springsteen picked up a guitar; before Danny DeVito drove a taxi; before Jack Nicholson flew over the cuckoo's nest, Asbury Park was a seashore Shangri-La filled with shimmering odes to civic greatness, world-renowned baby parades, temples of retail, and atmospheric movie palaces. It was a magnet for tourists, a summer vacation mecca-to some degree New Jersey's own Coney Island.
In Asbury Park's Glory Days, award-winning author Helen-Chantal Pike chronicles the city's heyday-the ninety-year period between 1890 and 1980. Pike illuminates the historical conditions contributing to the town's cycle of booms and recessions. She investigates the factors that influenced these peaks, such as location, lodging, dining, nightlife, merchandising, and immigration, and how and why millions of people spent their leisure time within this one-square-mile boundary on the northern coast of the state. Pike also includes an epilogue describing recent attempts to resurrect this once-vibrant city.
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Larry Coon
reviewed Asbury Park's Glory Days: The Story of an American Resort on May 18, 2009 Asbury Park's Glory Days
I picked this book up based on the pic of swimming horses on the front cover... reminded me of 'Pony Swim' of Assateague/Chincoteague Islands. This is the story of the hunt for the galleon that wrecked on Assateague in the 1750s, the most likely source of the wild ponies now found on the island. The book is well researched and offers an interesting look at how the 'treasure hunting' process works.
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