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Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Cape May, Ocean City, Wildwood, etc. etc. etc.

What is the best and worst of the Jersey Shore?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 16 June 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, it's all so tacky and boring.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

You won't keep me away that easily, JBR; come on, fess up!

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't even set foot in New Jersey anymore. I have this irrational fear that I might "catch Jersey" and start sprouting a second skin made of taffeta and rhinestones.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It's true, I only lived there a year and yet it still haunts me; I go to formal events and my hair becomes Mariahiffic.

Ocean City seems nicer than Wildwood but I've never been there, so maybe it's just my dislike of Wildwood? It's not so bad, it's just not very exciting; there's not really much to DO besides beachy stuff. There's a huge club in I think Cape May.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Shame, cuz I'll miss the gorgeous beaches, and the air hockey and skeeball, and the salt water taffy, and the lighthouses, and the summer storms, and the faded glory of Asbury and Wildwood...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

is avalon in new jersey? that was quite nice.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

(haha new jersey is my favorite state) (my hair stays down just fine, considering my ethnicity and my lower-class roots and all)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Long Beach Island is cool too, but you need a car to get around.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

JBR I saw a book today called Weird New Jersey or something that you might be interested in. Unfortunately, they said the shore didn't have as much weird stuff as the rest of the state.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I kind of think that's true though.

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, Weird New Jersey is a pretty good zine that's been around for some time. They've got a website:

http://weirdnj.com/

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here (pic thread) (for good weird Jersey locales)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 16 June 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/postcards/wildwood.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Years ago I went to Atlantic City (where I was pleased to find I have little appetite for gambling). The beach was actually quite nice, but the town...The first two or three blocks off of the boardwalk, where the casinos are, were all shiny and new and ready to suck in the tourists. But the rest of the area, not two blocks away, looked depressed if not decrepit. Houses that once upon a time must have been really nice were falling to pieces. It's possible that the economy has picked up since then, but at the time I decided that tourism and/or gambling is at best an economic mixed blessing.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I am proud to be a Jersey shore-whore. Wildwood, Seaside ("sleazeside"), Point Pleasant, LBI -- it's all great. Granted, Wildwood is heads and tails above the rest (hello, FIVE MILE boardwalk "watch the tram car"), but I'm biased because it's part of my family's summer vacation history. And boardwalk food kicks ass. Love it all.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Good friends of my parents have a house at the very south end of Ocean City (it's literally the 4th house from the end of the island). It's so classic! Fresh Jersey corn, lobster, seafood, Lipton's iced tea, sitting on the beach, reading, walks on the beach, etc. etc. I'll prolly be there in late August. Can't wait. Spirit Air even has a gambler's express flight out of Atlantic City to/from Detroit.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

you get to make wonderful friends like these folks.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Point Pleasant! Point Pleasant is the one with the club.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

"The tour of Wildwood's post-World War II Doo-Wop-style motels is two hours of blazing neon, loopy signage and vintage architecture, all to the accompaniment of Doo-Wop music."

http://query.nytimes.com/search/article-page.html?res=9C0DE5D81131F932A35755C0A9659C8B63&n=Top%2fFeatures%2fTravel

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Point Pleasant has a club? I guess I'm not shocked, but. It's the one I grew up going to; obv I was too young to care then whether it had a club or not (and, well, sure OK I probably wouldn't care now, if I were spending an evening there), but, eh, I guess that's kinda interesting, or maybe not, not that I think about it. Why am I posting this again? Um.

― Chris P (Chris P), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 03:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I live on the Shore, in Manasquan (20 minutes south of Asbury Park, 5 minutes north of Point Pleasant). I have a strange mentality towards the Shore - sort of a "No one picks on my little sister but me" mindset. There are numerous things about the area that bother the hell out of me: the teensy little Shore towns that dot Route 35, filled to the brim with tidy conservative Irish church-goers and financial-sector drones, where almost half the municipal income is derived from tourism and speeding tickets between Memorial Day and Labor Day, to name one thing, and the guidos, Bennies and Newarkies, to name everything else. But it's a gorgeous area with a lot of history and I really do love it. I'll talk plenty of shit about it to other people, but I hate hearing people trash the place. Unfortunately, like most New Jerseyans, I've learned to grin and bear it when people ask me what GSP exit I live off of, when they'd otherwise ask what town I'm from. (Exit 98, for anyone who's curious.) I understand where the region gets it sordid reputation from, but, eh. Even the most cosmopolitian-minded person, I suppose, can't suppress a little regional pride every now and then.

― justin s., Wednesday, 18 June 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I recommend staying in Monmouth County (north away of Point Pleasant and destinations below) if you want to get a real feel of the culture of the area. Belmar has a quirky little coffeehouse, some great vegetarian restuarants, a vintage clothing store and more antique shops than you can shake a stick at. The boardwalk is beautiful, too, though it's rather benny-prone during the high afternoon hours. Come at dawn or night and avoid D'Jais like you would the incubation laboratory of SARS. A little up 35, Avon and Bradley Beach are fun towns -- at this point I sound like a fucking brochure, but it's my home -- with a nice, though expensive boardwalk, and the exotic restaurants peopling the main drag of Bradley number in the double digits. But the high point of any visit to the Shore should be a trip to Asbury Park. See a show at the Saint, Fastlane, or the Stone Pony. It's not just open for Springsteen nostalgia; the Roots and Medeski, Martin and Wood played a concert there last week, and they were goddamned amazing. Art galleries, quirky vintage shops and nightclubs have sprouted like mushrooms after a monsoon in the wake of the immigration of many gay, wealthy culture-vultures to the city; people fleeing Fire Island for a more "authentic" life, though the law of averages dictate that in another half-decade the place will be just as gentrified as Williamsburg. Still. Go see it while it's still new and exciting. That's the sales pitch; I hope I've been eloquent enough to drown out the naysayers name-checking Point Pleasant and Seaside Heights. Those are tourist drags, bubble-worlds. The real Jersey Shore is a hell of a lot more interesting.

― justin s., Wednesday, 18 June 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

A great film

http://www.blarg.net/~dr_z/Movie/Posters/Cult/atlantic.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

My dad lived in Monmouth for a few years in the late '60s when he worked at Monmouth College. Last time I saw him he told me all these stories (I guess I'm old enough now) about him and his buddies pretty much running the campus. The one about him and his friends being drunk on the roof of a dorm in togas was pretty hilarious (especially since my dad is a fairly straight-laced guy).

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I spent a lot of time in Freehold a few years ago. The suburbs were boring, but the town proper seemed like a fascinating place with a ton of history.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

give into the inner jersey shore camaro-babe dying to get out, Ally!

― Tad (llamasfur), Thursday, 19 June 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm... I wonder if I somehow inspired this thread?

I just got back from Cape May and I love it there. Too bad I didn't even get to put on my swimsuit the whole time as it was freezing cold and rainy every single day. But usually I love it. It's not a sleazy beach at all. There are still stores with silly trinkets but mostly everything is clean. And there are so many pretty Victorian houses!

My dad grew up in Monmouth County after his family left New York. Uh... ages 13-18, but his parents continued to live there for quite a while afterwards. During our trip, my dad took my sisters and a cousin and I up to see the house there. The woman who lived there was home and actually let us look around inside. It was so weird because I hadn't been there since I was teeny tiny but it was just like I remembered (except for the huge new addition in the back). We also visited the high school there that my dad attended and he went to school with the vice principal so they talked about old times...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Only if it's your camaro, Tad. Etc.

Does this make me the Mae West of the Jersey shore? I hope so. I haven't been down there in a couple of years.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 19 June 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.wildwoodrentals.com/images/mapnew.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.state.nj.us/travel/images/WILDWOOD.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 23 June 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/united_states/cape_may_nj95.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

NJ-47's southern terminus is in Wildwood at Atlantic Ave.

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sca-roadside.org/wildwood/swan1.jpg

http://www.agilitynut.com/lol.jpg

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/njpine.jpeg

http://www.preservationnj.org/ten_most/../images/ten_most/county_map.gif

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 24 June 2003 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice work, gareth.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 24 June 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.beachwoodusa.com/photogallery/images/beach_1930s.jpg

― (gareth), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Ernie's Fabulous 50s Diner sounds like a nice place to eat.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

And this might be a nice place to stay:

http://www.maryannmotel.com/

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.casa-novamotel.com/

http://www.beachcomber.com/Wwcrest/town.html

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Point Pleasant! I'm all about Point Pleasant on a hot, clear day with lotsa blue skies and BIG waves. Hmmmmm...

Good sushi restaurant on the boardwalk there, too!

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Would the NJ experts recommend staying at Wildwood itself or at Wildwood Crest?

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 6 July 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

*bump*

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 7 July 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Wildwood proper. As close to the center of town as possible. We just drove down there and picked a place out at random, based on how unreconstructedly post-war it looked, but it was the week after Labor Day and it was easy then.

Gareth posted a picture of the Lollipop Motel's cute sign, but DON'T BE FOOLED: the Lollipop sign is new, and the motel itself is either new or newly renovated in a clumsy emulation of the true Wildwood style, all plastic-coated metal tubes and cinderblock.

In North Wildwood, there's a filthy looking corner restaurant that advertises its Chip Butty, which was a surprise. Never thought it was a big menu item in the US.

― Benjamin (benjamin), Monday, 7 July 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

how long does it take by bus? njtransit timetable says 5 hrs but other book says 2.

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 09:47 (twenty-two years ago)

From NYC? No way it takes two hours. I'd trust the timetable, but if you're leaving the city on a Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, competing with all the summer weekend traffic, it could take even longer.

― Benjamin (benjamin), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It took about four hours by bus via Atlantic City. The faux-50s time warp of Wildwood was absolutely dreamy. We stayed at the Pink Champagne Motel. People should really honeymoon in Wildwood. We saw the Swan hotel; it was great, except for the beds were not made of Swans. The new "playfully retro" Starlux was very big and incredibly expensive, I don't know who stays there. It looked like a hotel in Miami, too posh for humble Wildwood. They should have made it more fauxÐdown-on-its heels. I think the hotels just need to go overboard and kitsch it up even more. We ate at Wildwood Diner, which was great, and Big Ernie's Faubulous Diner, which was a bit over the top. We also ate at Uncle Bill's Waffle House, which was okay. We had "Jersey Fries" which were promised in our guidebook to be exotic beasts, but weren't discernably different from regular boardwalk fries. We walked to Wildwood Crest and tried to get a trolley to Cape May that never came, which was okay because we saw a lot of cool hotels in the Crest, like the Hotel Bahama and also some tiki ones, like the Waikiki I think. In the evening we found a lovely faux-Irish pub, Kelly's; Wed. night was pub quiz, but we didn't get there early enough to exhibit our vast stores of knowledge. The town was awash in faux-Irish pubs, they were better than any ones I'd ever seen -- in the morning they served "authentic" fry-ups. We took the boardwalk tram (watch the tram car) to North Wildwood, which seemed nice and deserted at the end of the boardwalk. The boardwalk was insane and the beach was so long and far away from the boardwalk; you could barely see the ocean in the distance. The sand was in need of beautification. The best (only) New YorkÐstyle boutique was called Lula's; it was on Pacific Street near Uncle Bill's. The clothes there were really cheap and cute. I didn't understand the complete lack of Japanese tourists. Gareth and I should start a tour company to fill this niche. We didn't make it on the doo-wop tour per se; the museum of doo-wop was only open from 6-9 in the evening, so we didn't pick up there doo-wop architecture guide either. But apparently the Smithsonian magazine this month has a feature on the doo-wop architecture of Wildwood.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 11 July 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

(I really want to go to Asbury Park next.)

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 11 July 2003 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

see also Sandy Hook and Sayreville (b-place? home? of Jon Bon)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 11 July 2003 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot to mention how cheap the beers were at Kelly's. Gareth and I had four beers each and the bill at the end of the night was $12. And it wasn't even half-price night -- that's Tues. Other notable faux-Hibernians: Tuckers (not Truckers), The Shamrock, and Angelsea Pub (in North Wildwood). Apparently Wildwood is big with the Irish/English youth travelers.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 14 July 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

irish and english people are not the same. irish people say 'feel the voib', even the leaders

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 14 July 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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It's on the docket.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 25 July 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

How is Asbury Park this time of year?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

haha - what's gotten into you Mary?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 4 December 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Research:(

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 4 December 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

LONG BEACH ISLAND IS NICER

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 December 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

what about slightly inland jersey?

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 11 December 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

morris plains?

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Well we're living here in Allentown
And they're closing all the factories down
Out in Bethlehem they're killing time
Filling out forms
Standing in line
Well our fathers fought the Second World War
Spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore
Met our mothers in the USO
Asked them to dance
Danced with them slow
And we're living here in Allentown

But the restlessness was handed down
And it's getting very hard to stay

Well we're waiting here in Allentown
For the Pennsylvania we never found
For the promises our teachers gave
If we worked hard
If we behaved
So the graduations hang on the wall
But they never really helped us at all
No they never taught us what was real
Iron and coke
And chromium steel
And we're waiting here in Allentown

But they've taken all the coal from the ground
And the union people crawled away

Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face

Well I'm living here in Allentown
And it's hard to keep a good man down
But I won't be getting up today

And it's getting very hard to stay
And we're living here in Allentown

― jadrenos (jadrenos), Thursday, 11 December 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Bored walking on the boardwalk,
New Jersey Shore.
If I come to New York,
can I sleep on your floor?
I've been living out of a suitcase on the motel floor
and running up tabs at the corner store.
I'm barely walking on the boardwalk anymore.
When summer gets along,
your hair gets too long.
I'm picking up the habit of drinking long before four,
when July is gone,
I'll be twenty-four and then not anymore.
New Jersey shore,
New Jersey shore,
then not anymore.

― Promise Dean (deangulberry), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Is Keanburg the Coney Island of New Jersey? Also, tell me about Seaside Heights. And, where are the best places to eat in Asbury Park? And how is the Stone Pony?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Seaside (Sleazeside) kicks ass. Anyone who says otherwise hates fun.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

my parents never took us to keansburg. i dunno why, they just didn't. we went to asbury park once, before it turned whole-hog into the newark-by-the-sea nightmare that it is now. generally, my folks didn't go to the shore all that much -- they vacationed in vermont and new hampshire.

high school and college, i mostly went to seaside and long beach island.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Wildwood & Wildwood Crest own me every summer.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

>>Is Keanburg the Coney Island of New Jersey? Also, tell me about Seaside Heights. And, where are the best places to eat in Asbury Park? And how is the Stone Pony? <<

On the pure basis of amusement attractions, Wildwood is most like Coney. Point Pleasant rules (Jenkinson's has a walkthrough permanent funhouse that is super rare and tons of fun), as does Ocean City, Seaside Heights, and Keansburg. Atlantic City, while much grimier than any other the other major seaside spots, does have gambling, which totally rules.

Really, if you want to sprint, you can see every city on the shore in a day (I've done it myself on a couple occasions to ride every coaster in coastal NJ). Comparatively, its much more expensive that Coney (assuming you don't park at the Aquarium) or Brighton ever will be, but its a helluva lot of fun.

― Alan Conceicao, Thursday, 26 February 2004 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

50s-era hotel in Florida endangered

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Others are just "improved"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

Anyone going to the New Jersey State Barbecue Championship? It's coming up in Wildwood. I'll be down in Sea Isle City, and I think the wife and I will be ready for some BBQ come July 9th.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, forgot to link it: http://www.njbbq.com/

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Am happy to see this revive. I spent nearly ever summer as a kid at my grandparents' house in Beach Haven Park on LBI ... Bay Village, Skipper Dipper, the Beach Twin, the Acme. Fourth of July there was always amazing, the beaches are beautiful, Barnegat Bay is awesome for fishing and boats. Plus steamers etc. TOTAL CLASSIC.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I go to Beach Haven practically every weekend. My wife's family has a house there. It's not the part of the shore where I "grew up" (that's SIC) but I've grown to love it, despite my prejudices. It rules. Is the Beach Twin the theatre? There is only one movie theatre left on the whole island. That makes rainy days kinda tough.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm hoping I can get a weekend at my parents' friends' house in Ocean City at the end of next month. Fingers crossed!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, the Twin is the movie theater by the Acme. Is it still just two screens? I remember seeing "The Empire Strikes Back" there.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup, two screens. I went to that place last year or the year before to see the Bourne Identity and the theatre was just falling apart and covered in mildew, all the seats and stuff. They've painted the outside (a very very bright green) since so maybe it's been renovated, I don't know.

― mcd (mcd), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Back in the day I believe it was painted a weird sea-foam green inside in the lobby, with some extremely kitschy retro-futurist finishings going on. It was awesome. Another fave spot down there is Morrison's Restaurant, which sits right on the bay there, and you can see some weird old collapsed still houses on some of the little islands out in the water. My father actually paid for college by pumping gasoline into big sport fisherman boats in the marina there.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Going to a party in Asbury Park this weekend -- haven't been there since I was maybe 12 or 13. Still Newark-by-the-Sea? Anywhere especially good to eat near the beach? Bowling is taken care of. Sunday is Jersey Pride but I'm hightailing it back to town around noon.

(As a kid I was taken to Point Pleasant almost every summer too.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Morbs I adore Asbury Park, I'll be there tons this summer. The resuscitated part of downtown is cute and boutique-y and has, like, restored-midcentury-furniture shops but there's plenty of squalor left to moan over, especially inland toward the train station. The beachfront is pretty empty with hardly any stores or restaurants -- I usually subsist on cheese fries or hot dogs while I'm there -- but remarkably clean and there's a historial exhibit of photos & stuff in the old casino (or there was last year). Don't recommend eating at the HoJo, as much as I love it and the little Greek man who runs the joint. tho it's a great place for a boardwalk-side beer.

For actual FOOD food, I couldn't say. Bourdain did a feature about some seafood place on one of his travel/food shows, but I don't know exactly where it is.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

restored-midcentury-furniture shops

So it HAS gone gay.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:46 (twenty years ago)

tell me about point pleasant, present-tense

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Don't recommend eating at the HoJo, as much as I love it and the little Greek man who runs the joint. tho it's a great place for a boardwalk-side beer.

bourdain going to that hojo was one of the highlights of that whole series.

owner: "what can i get you?"
bourdain's inner monologue: "hmm, i wouldn't trust any food that was actually MADE here... if i get a grilled cheese i can rest assured that the bread and the cheese are coming from somewhere else and all they're doing is slapping it on a grill and serving it to me."
bourdain: "grilled cheese and a heineken."
owner: "wise choice, sir."

― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

I actually think it's just gone older-urban-hipster, there are a fair number of rock'n'roll parent types who I get the feeling wanted to buy cheap old houses and left NYC or Philly or etc to buy & fix up. Plus it's Asbury Park, maaaan.

Haha, I saw that, Jody, and laffed my ass off. Luckily last time I checked the redevelopment plan the city had agreed to included provisions for the HJ to be preserved/restored rather than demolished, INCLUDING the cement ramp and 360-degree promenade deck on the 2nd story. But I don't know when that's scheduled to happen.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Well I'll be bowling for only the second time since 7th grade, so I'll be sure not to let HoJo make me sick first.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Wise choice, sir.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:06 (twenty years ago)

NY Times archive:

As for a grilled cheese at a Howard Johnson's in Asbury Park, N.J., Mr. Bourdain appeared to experience a nadir. "I feel like killing myself," he said after taking a bite.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Anyone know of a cheap but not too seedy place to stay in the Belmar area for a few nights in August? Hopefully this would be a place that could sleep three in one room.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

can you get a timeshare for a weekend?

― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

apparently Saturday night at this Asbury bar will include a pre-Pride show by Lez Zeppelin.

http://www.thewonderbarnj.com/

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking about the time-share idea, but it seemed like most of them are for a whole week. I'll look around though, if I see one for a weekend that would be perfect.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 1 June 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.njguido.com/Picture%20Pages/2006/May/May%2026,%202006%20DJais/bigimages/DJAIS%20MAY%2026133_edited.jpeg

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Thursday, 1 June 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

the female terminator goes there.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Thursday, 1 June 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Anyone know of a cheap but not too seedy place to stay in the Belmar area for a few nights in August? Hopefully this would be a place that could sleep three in one room.
-- o. nate (syne_wav...), June 1st, 2006.

Cheap + jersey shore during summer = nonexistent, methinks. People start renting their houses/apartments out for thousands of $$ per week.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 2 June 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Does anyone know of a B n B to recommend at Cape May? Seems there are some nice, pricey ones (Angel of the Sea, Queen Vicotoria) but they don't accomodate 3 to a room (family trip).

― Virginia Plain, Friday, 6 July 2007 01:06 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

MTV's best show in ages.

― kingfish, Monday, 28 December 2009 04:22 (sixteen years ago)

Such great representatives for the area

― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 December 2009 04:51 (sixteen years ago)

for those who haven't seen it yet:

http://www.mtv.com/shows/jersey_shore/video.jhtml?filter=fulleps

5 hours so far of leathered douchebaggery. Awesome

― kingfish, Monday, 28 December 2009 06:10 (sixteen years ago)

does anyone know where i can watching the 5th episode outside of US

im dessssssssperate