Asbury Park
Pinball Arcade and Museum
Madam Marie is still telling fortunes on the boardwalk
Ocean City
Castaway Cove ferris wheel
My favorite boardwalk pizza, Manco & Manco’s
Wildwood
The Wildwood tram car
Boardwalk fashion
Do you need a tattoo to walk the boards?
The Great Nor’Easter, Morey’s Pier
A boardwalk sunset
off the leash 
Great pictures, Ken. I have never been to Asbury Park, but my husband and I would take the kids to Wildwood and Ocean City at least once every few years for a long weekend. When I was growing up, my parents would take us to Atlantic City every year until the casinos started taking over. It was a fun time. Thanks for sharing your memories.
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Asbury Park is a place that became pretty depressed and fell apart. It is now in the midst of a revival. That same thing could happen to AC.
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I’ve not been to Ashbury Park or any other Jersey boardwalks. Living in the middle of the country, miles away from the ocean, I find the whole concept of boardwalks and their amusement park atmosphere fascinating. Nice photos.
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People watching – love this! The amusements look bright and enticing – I guess to draw people in.
America really does go “all out” in the way of entertainment.
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Looks like a fun place to people watch!
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Great post. Brings back memories of when I was in the Coast Guard and stationed at Cape May. I used to travel up and down New Jersey. Thanks for sharing.
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Ken, this really makes me miss my childhood. I didn’t spend a ton of time at the shore, but I spent enough for this to bring back memories. I used to love the salt water taffy from the little shops. There was a time when my parents visited the shore without me and brought me home a whole box of it.
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Next time I’ll have to come up with a salt water taffy shop image.
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I’ve been out on the boardwalk in Chicago and managed to catch a play at the Shakespeare theatre there. In my own neck of the woods, there’s a lovely board walk at the Coeur d’Alene resort, but it’s just one that meanders through the marina. No carnival stuff in sight 🙂
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Such colourful images! You really capture the flamboyance and festive spirit of the Boardwalk. I imagine you could spend a very full day, playing games, going on rides, having your fortune told! Kind of makes me think of the movie “Beaches” – same boardwalk?
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I believe the boardwalk in the movie is Atlantic City which is nearby but not on of the ones in my post.
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Makes me feel why do we grow up. Seems like a good place to chill out at. Also nice snaps
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Great pix of Jersey boardwalk Ken. Reminds me a lot of some of our california boardwalks like Venice or Santa Monica pier 🙂
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I can’t recall ever having been to a boardwalk: from your photos, it looks like a cross between an amusement park and a shopping mall – is that a fair description?
Speaking of shopping malls, I recently had the opportunity to visit a local shopping mall that I hadn’t been to in years and that has even less ‘personality’ now than it did the last time I was there – maybe I would have had a better time if I could have gone on a Ferris wheel ride. 😉
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At least boardwalks don’t have chain stores so unlike malls they aren’t all exactly alike.
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Ken, thanks for sharing! The post really makes me miss the summer of 2010. The New Jersey’s boardwalks really have their own spirit and particularly Wildwood, even for my four-month stay in the States I understood how much Wildwood means for the most of the Americans born in this part of the States. I wish I could come back even for a few days.
Thank you once again,
greetings from Bulgaria,
Moni
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