Seaside Heights Boardwalk NJ Sun-N-Fun 1960's Promotional Film in HD
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- About 17 minutes of historic scenes from beautiful Seaside Heights and Seaside Park New Jersey in their Sun-N-Fun 1960's Promotional Film. Originally produced on 16 mm film now remastered in HD video. See Casino Pier and Funtown U.S.A., Aerial shots of Seaside Heights and Seaside Park and The Barnegat Bay in Ocean County New Jersey. Many Boardwalk Stands, Games of Chance, Amusement Rides, Beaches, Arcades, Carousel Rides, the Strand Skilo, Pizza, and more.
Also see local homes, Churches, Casino Pier - Salt Water Swimming Pool, The First National Bank of Toms River, Hotels, Motels, Khors Ice Cream, GOLFLAND, Surf Skilo, Flamingo, Aztec, Ocean Motel and more.
Meet Mayor J. Stanley Tunney, the Seaside Heights Police Department, Fire Department, Lifeguards, Sun Bathing, the Borough Hall, Crabbing, The Fishing Pier, Merry Go Round, Fascination, Clam Bar, Cotton Candy, Salt Water Taffy, Parrot Club Bar, Entertainment, and the Boulevard.
"COLOR / EXCITEMENT / & FUN HURRY BACK to the town that FUN Built. "
Enjoy! A Production of Sleeping Giant Films Inc.
Converted to HD format by Ron Merk at indieplex.org
Brought to you by Peter Smith and Joe Verderosa of Greenrose Media.
Available for purchase on Ebay. - Zábava
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Looks like life was so simple then. No cell phones.. no tech. Just cheep stuff and fun. The way america used to be.
@ 4:08 see the little boy with his arm out of the train ... THAT'S ME WITH MY DAD!!!!! I showed this vid to my dad and made him cry, me too. Remembering all of the good times we had on vacation in Seaside. Love you and missing you RIP Bill Sr. 1924-2015
Wow great story!
Your dad's mind seemed to be elsewhere. Great find though.
thats so sweet a great memory
Wow isn’t that something?! … So happy you noticed and got to share it with your dad.
So cool! Nj’s golden era!
I remember when there was no fence on the boardwalk. The beach was free and you could jump right onto the sand. Breakfast at Humpty Dumpty's, dinner at Mrs. Simms. Early 50s. Went there on vacation with family every year , starting when I was 5 to age 14 and we stayed at the Whalen's on the corner across from the place that rented out chairs and umbrellas right by the boardwalk. Car tire tubes were allowed in the ocean. And sipping soda at Jack 'n Bills bar or McKelvy's. There was a parrot outside a miniature golf course on the sidewalk. Those were the days when there weren't any fast food places and you would look forward to pizza slices and hot sausage sandwiches and waffles with ice cream. Special food you couldn't find anywhere else. I loved it all. The music too. Perry Como singing round and round on speakers. Patti Page. The Four Lads. When I play their songs on my phone it takes me back to those happiest days of my life.
AWESOME. Born in "61 but can def remember some of those times!
Went here many a time growing up in the 60s and 70s. So sad how times have changed so much. I would give anything to go back to those simple and much happier days.
Me Too!
InstaBlaster...
Born in the late 40's, I spent some of the best years of my life there. What an awesome place in the 50's and 60's ! I miss it so....
Born in 1958 and every yr we went down Tom's river to rent our bungalow then almost everyday we went to seaside hts, we always went to the beach on sumner ave & the boardwalk, we loved it down there my father god rest his soul had 1 month vacation every yr from 1963 to 1971 and we went on vacation anything to get away from jersey city every summer, great memories boy oh boy the beach was $.25 cents to get on then now its $6.00 wow times have changed, god bless seaside hts nj. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
after Hurricane Sandy when I saw that Rollar Coaster in the ocean (Jetstar I think) it broke my heart, rode that so many times in the 70's
That's when the town was clean and safe..Wish you could go back in time..
What a great video. Spent summer vacations there in the late 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Times were much simpler and fun them. I could still smell and taste the sausage sandwiches and tomato pies.
This brings me back to so many memories when I went to Seaside back in the 60s with my parents. I will never have those beautiful days back but at least I have videos like this one to watch from time to time.
My grandparents owned Jack n Bills bar. I remember going in there with my older brother watching my dad bartending. Wonderful childhood memories.
I'm a Jersey native.... Born and raised!!!! Even though I currently live in Kentucky... I still miss the Garden State and also her beautiful shore...
Commenting before I watch and get all teary-eyed with nostalgia. Born in 1959, we rented a house in Chadwick Beach every year, always the first two weeks in July.
My Mom had been going to Chadwick since she was 16. We'd get a house and my Grandmother and Aunts, Uncles and cousins would also get houses on the same block. Seaside was always a highlight, we would sit on the beach at night and watch the fireworks from Seaside.
My husband and I still go to Chadwick, not every year but as often as possible. Less than 20 years ago we paid $450 a week for a house that was 2 houses from the beach. Now it's well over $1700 a week for a house that's 5 houses away from the beach. When all is said and done, it's worth every penny. ❤
Just like I remembered it. Thank you for this video, it means more than you know ❤
I was born in 1959 also and went there for the summer several times in the 60s. I miss those days!
You still have your memories, Sandy took alot, and I saw 3 guys here in fla crying at the news, as too with them, all the memories.. But I can still remember casino Pier the way it was, back in 60's...
Not a New Jersey native but my family and I split our time between Seaside Heights and Island Beach State Park in this era. I still have some sand in my vehicle from my last trip to IBSP this past January of '21. The years really went by so quickly.
I still miss the Freedman's Carousel that was auctioned off in 1988. It was full of beautiful Illions/Carmel/Borelli horses that were covered in jewels.
This is essentially the Seaside that holds my best childhood memories. What a treasure! Marie Kline Greg Kline: you have to see this!
The Seaside of my childhood. What an absolute treasure!!
Once a year in the late '60s and early '70s my family and an aunt and uncle would spend a Saturday at Seaside , partaking in the boardwalk experience. At that time, the games of chance were for the most part, fair. You could come away a winner without spending a fortune. I loved the grocery and candy wheels. In later years, after I graduated from high school, my friends and I would visit and play the wheels with the head gear ( bongs, pipes, etc.) The record wheels were awesome too. You could win some hard to find bootleg albums here . Haven't been back since hurricane Sandy destroyed the place.
@@gregggoss2210 Totally rebuilt since Sandy. Even the Pier but much smaller!
Mine too.....NJ n Seaside has gone down the drain with our state government.... be well.
I might not have been alive during the 60's, but in the 2000's this place was nostalgia heaven for me, even if the giant salt water pool was replaced by a giant water park.
Every generation has its favorite period of seaside. Mine is no better than yours when put in perspective. You can't miss what you never experienced. I may love it most in the 70s and 80s but I lived it. 30 years from now you may be saying how you miss seaside of 2010.
My great aunt used to live in seaside Park before she died. I always used to go here and stay at her house. Some of my best memories. They may be from the 2000's but they were still so amazing
Went there when i was a kid We rented a house every summer. Dam i miss those days. 56 years old now. Think i will take a ride down there this week to look around
Same age as you Lester, 56. I get down to Seaside a handful of times every summer to this day. Still an amazing and fun place.
I'm only 15 but I'm glad I live nearby, it's a fun place to hang out with my friends, I recommend coming down again, I've been coming here since I was a baby, I kind of wish it still had that salt pool it seems pretty fun.
Yes my family to0 spent all the Summers now I'm sure. My father would rent places right on the beach in ortley Beach or we really stayed a couple months at the Hershey Motel which was awesome!
This is exactly the America I miss so much . . I was born in '63
Me too
got love the old folks all dressed up watching everything
I know what you mean Seaside Heights was the best place to go in the summer and I went there a couple of times
and now its all gone due to Hurriane Sandy I miss how the good old days were so free and not a care in the world.
Altantic city is gone too.
What do you mean- "Gone"? Seaside Heights and Atlantic City are still there. Beach has come back from Sandy. Nature is resilient, but our world is affected by the warming globe. It is true that this warming is going to create more Sandy's in the future. Our current government could not care less.
Arturo he meant the people then vibes- the community.
I was born in 1953, best days of my life. I'm so very lucky to say I spent every summer there.
Thank you so very much for this precious walk down my native NJs "Memory Lane".
Seaside is iconic of fun summers spent as a child and even today, when I cater to that "inner child😁"!
The good old days!
HeartWarming Nostalgia!! We enjoyed Seaside Hts From 1963-2000. Best Memories are from the 60s & 70s. This vid really Found Those Missed Moments. Many Thanks.
Born in 61 and going there every year on vacation with the family I remember seeing those very sights and sounds. Kindda sad its not the same, but everything changes. Funny thing is in 50 years someone be watching today's videos saying, " its just not the same boardwalk ." Thanks for the post, really enjoyed it.
That's what built the boardwalk,Scrupulously fair games
Great video! Thanks for sharing 👍 very fond childhood and family memories from the 60s through the 80s
Born in N.J. 1961 , This video just drought back some grt memories. My Grand parents had a corner lot with two apartments. Me and my two sisters had a grt time in the summer months growing up. 😎✌️🇺🇸
I was born in 1960 Andrew Menthol or Somers for 18 years down the shore remember all the good times we had the pinball machines on the casino Pier unfortunately it's not the same it's all gone there's not even one pinball machine and I think there's 10 three brother pizza places terrible the best part was getting the sausage and peppers at Midway I came up from Florida this Fourth of July 2021 worst fireworks I ever seen very disappointment glad I had and you guys had the best years 70s 80s
I live 14 miles from there and have many fond fun memories. It was a big hangout for me back in the late 60s, 70s and 80s. Notice how much clothes they wore in this video and white shirts were popular and some dressed up in suits and ties and dresses back then. The area had seen a lot of changes, especially after hurricane Sandy and the big 2 block fire.
I spent my childhood summers there in the era this film was made! So many memories! Always marveled at the antique Illions carousel, which was broken up and sold in the late 80s.
The sand crabs, burn and peel, the smell of Coppertone.
Grandpa would need a beer after the ordeal of finding a parking spot.
And the nicklefalls in the arcade.
You would save up the tickets all summer so you could get a smokeless ashtray, a transistor radio or a bathroom scale. And they had fuzzy pillows that said "LUV".
The shooting gallery with the piano man in the striped jacket.
The Merry-go-round & Saltwater taffy.
There were the teens who had THE perfect tan.
My grandma and I would hold hands and jump the waves, looking out for the big one that might knock us over.
Just hop in the Buick, no seat belts, and you were there in an hour.
Everyone had a special straw bag in the closet just for the beach.
Put your towels and sandwiches in there.
Ordering deep fried shrimp and corn on the cob was out of our budget.
Sixty years ago. Great times.
Happy days at the beach I grew up in toms river nj
Maybe you knew my Uncle Joe on Main Street in Toms River Joe's Pizzeria?
Great film. I bought the dvds of this and the 70"s one. I love the old games . Definitely makes you feel good after watching this.
Loved it! The Seaside of my childhood!! Thanks for sharing this.....hope they recover and get back up and running this summer! JERSEY STRONG!!!!!
My grandmother rented a house with her sisters in Seaside all through the 60s and 70s. She would take us up to the merry go round and the whole family would walk the boardwalk. I have a picture of me on those boats that go around in a circle wearing a captains hat. I was of course dressed well as was the whole family. Little more wholesome family fun then. Sadly she is gone and so is the Seaside i knew. Still go back to midway cheesesteaks to reminisce as its a little left of what was. Sadly true of America.
Excuse me, around how much was the rent in that time? Thanks
@@zpbrian7711 I was four years old so wasn't paying the rent. But surely that could be figured out somehow. Inflation of course makes it all relative and because we have printed money for the past 40 years costs are off the charts and only going up.
@ 3:15 that is my brother and me driving the little car !!!!!! I am not sure how this clip of us made its way into this promotional film, and very happy to see it !!!! I actually have the photo of this in my scrapbook !!! I am not surprised that I was the one driving......after all I am a Jersey Girl ! This video is precious and have such wonderful memories at the Jersey Shore.
Pre Snooki 🤣 love these old films. Makes me want to time travel for awhile.
And "the situation " and Jwow
Yea That Garbage Dumpster Crew!! Snooki an oversized disgusting classless troll adopted in some South American country and pretending to be Italian!!
You know that shore crew was from New York. They weren't even from NJ and that show was raunchy. People all over the US thought they portrayed how the young people from NJ talked and acted . I don't even think they did NY any justice. Especially thinking that people wanted to hear about their personal bathroom habits and so, so much more. Not.
@@susankillimett8501 , so true... as I travel around our country every time I check into a hotel they ask me about it :-( .... time to move. be well.
this is so cool watching this video and reading the comments! i’m 16 years old and I live in town and I go here all the time. it’s awesome to see what it was like in the past- much nicer than now i must say!
does anyone remember that shooting galley on the boardwalk? i think it cost 25 or 50 cents and you shot a light rifle. There was a guy playing the piano, beer cans, and the one i remember the most was this loud crazy bird that would go,wak wak wak wak wak when you hit it. I think skulls and other small things to shoot. Very fond memories.
yes absolutely
Yes that was the best Seaside is nothing like it used to be so we are all Lucky that we did it in the sixties seventies and eighties that game was really cool
Some of my fondest memories of my high school years in the 60s were at Seaside Heights. Goin' down the shore was awesome. The only draw back was the traffic to and from if you left for the shore to late (when it light!) or left to early (before 10pm!)
Yup those were great memories🌊🌞🏄💨🇺🇸
We went there during WWII. I remember black oil and other debris from ships sunk by German Uboats just off shore. Coast Guard patrolled the beach at night. We continued going there until ‘54. We stayed at the Gladwyn hotel. In ‘55 I and a friend worked there as dishwashers, bell hops, and whatever else needed to be done. Went there a few years ago and was sad to find out the hotel was gone. It was located in Seaside Park.
Those were the good old days ! Back in the mid 60s my family would stay at a place called Kozy Kay's 131 Sumner Avenue right across the street from the pink bus station. On the beach and boardwalk most of the day, fishing and crabbing in Barnegate Bay. Great times !
Might sound truly crazy but if someone offered to send me anywhere in the world, I'd pick Lavelette/Seaside. My fondest memories for the past 44 years is this place.. I'd give anything to take my young boys here for a few days. But money and covid 😢
We went to Seaside every summer. So many happy memories at the "shore"
Just amazing 😉
Thinking that 90% are dead today... Same will happen to all of us, i must look happier than i do on my video, to convey the hope of life the way they did.
Places are eternal, people come and go.. ❤️👌🏼🇺🇲
I used to get excited coming over the bridge and see the UFO sitting there thats when I knew I was at the beach I miss those days
When ppl enjoying mother nature and family time with no Fb..Phones or electronics
Figure it had to be 60' film. Bathing suits still decent, flattering . And people can just be!🇩🇰🇺🇸🍀💕
I'm from Northern New Jersey my family rented a house on the beach area for 18 years the best years was from the 1970s to the early 80s
I live in Florida I came up this 4th of July 2021 the boardwalk is nothing like it used to be there is not even one pinball machine how many three brother pizza can you put on the boardwalk games of chance is nothing but the water balloons and candy the best part was I got to eat my sausage and peppers at Midway I will never come back it's not the same bring back the old Seaside...
Thanks for sharing this excellent video, made us both kind of nostalgic. Thanks again!
Even after sandy , a lot of these places are still there .
Ahhhhhhhhhh.... Way back then when the Ocean water was actually really clean...
Ahh the simply times wish I was born in the era
Yes you would have loved it in the 70s and the 80s I was born in 1960 I learned everything bad Under the Boardwalk LOL
T’would have been fun to live when the pools were featured.
just good stuff
I think this video was from the early 60s, not ‘65. In the middle of the film, they show Mayor J.S. Tunney, who died in 1964. Therefore, this film could not have been ‘65.
thank you
Damn you used to look so nice. I’ve been going there every year since 2008 maybe and it doesn’t look like taht. Sandy did do a huge number on it tho.
Thank you !
For people who haven’t been to Seaside Heights in years, it still looks very similar to what it was 60 years ago. However it just doesn’t feel the same after Hurricane Sandy and now COVID-19
Totally awesome video, born in 1994 I only really went to Casino Pier two times without going on the rides sadly... But the second time, my parents and I walked around the pier looking at the pretty lights. Around 2007-2009 I don't really remember...
Casino Pier also looks pretty cool back then, but I am so glad they changed the building into a castle.
4:05-4:30 really... That clown head drawing scares the heck out of me. Well to me!
49 years later........
It actually doesn’t even look extremely different.
Infrastructure needs to be improved and updated then.
seaside is the best
It is. Absolute Pinnacle Of NJ, In My Opinion,
Great video
My family went to Seaside almost every summer during the 60s and 70s. I loved being there as a kid. Where did you travel there from? We lived in Gillette.
Love it and hope my brothers house is done for this summer
Ahh sausage peppers and onions at dentatos the ice cream and cotton candy and the giant pizza pies that were so good but always gave me the runs lol
Spotted "Lucky Leos' ". It was there in the early 80s. Wonder if it still there under the same name.
According to the FB group for Seaside Heights, there is more than one Lucky Leo's stand...and several people have posted photos in the past couple of months.
Loved it there so much. Was that fortune teller Mrs Lovell?
This video made me so hungry...😋
It's rundown today.
Yup it is as most of NJ has become now...........
Any way to get the original file and I will color correct it for you? Lovely film, CC way off.
Sure, send me your email address and I'll send you the file. The original film had some damage to it but if you can make it look better then go for it. Joe V joev@greenrosemedia.tv
RIP fun town pier
I'm packing right now.
12:00 always scared hell out of me as a a tot
Yup me to wasn't there a gorilla also ? not sure
As a sax player, 15:25 amazes me... if I heard the name correctly it was something like Don Pollard??
When was the salt water pool removed?
In the 80's it was converted to a waterpark
My Dad And Nancy Weren't Even Born Yet In 1965
My Dad Was Born On April 10th 1968 And Nancy Was Born On August 3rd 1970
How funny some of the prizes ya won on the boardwalk were a carton of cigarettes ....Now u can't smoke on the beach or boardwalk
Me and my buddies were 12 years old and were allowed to play for those cigarettes. Back in the day.
The cigarette Stan was the best when you threw the ball in there I was also 12-13-14 when they said let me even throw the ball in
Who's missing in these movies?
Geez....... all the girls of the 70s I "enjoyed"
Seaside Heights was great. Now it more and more resembles Asbury Park (one of the most dangerous municipalities in NJ)
Both are long gone.
I live in South Seaside Park and yes the Heights is not what it used to be but I would fall very short of saying dangerous as Asbury and even Asbury is back to some life.
I think i saw SNOOKI there on the Boardwalk... LOL !
🤮😅
LOL@Blue water and 'affordable boat mooring'.
i also remmeber a show on the peir, if it was seaside,asbury or keansburg not sure, a girl would turn into a gorilla before your very eyes!
Now it just bad taste, and low brow culture which so many these days think is cool. I miss adults, good taste and the majority of society at least attempting to act respectable with some class.
, agreed........
It's not like this anymore n not safe.... but what is anymore in NJ our state government has turned the state into East California....
Note: There was no HD in the 1960's
That's true Bill but we had the film re-mastered to HD in 2013. 1920x1080. It says it right in the description.
@@greenrosetv OK Thanks That makes sense
Wonder if that Mayor knew Nucky Thompson?
+richard bowes Well ... that was Atlantic City. He was an administrator there-not sure if his influence exnteded to Seaside Heights. I'm sure they had there own version of corruption.
A lot of these people are dead now.
Dan Abnormal WOW, you're brilliant.
@@geomax5470 😂😂😂😂
I'm not @@NinerBoi
Many of the older folks in that film, probably . . But the kids are still here, for the most part.
Until Sandy .
So sad, but Covid is what has kept me away the last 2 years. My children are truly missing out now and it breaks my heart. I spent every summer here starting when I was 6 months old. 44 now and miss this place so darn much.
Fun in the Sun for those of Northern European decent
Tanfastic 🤣🤣