Entering North Wildwood in June 1987 *FULL VIDEO*
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2023
- This footage of the old North Wildwood Boulevard was recorded in June of 1987 before the new Route 147 was constructed in the 1990s. The video starts on the Garden State Parkway then shows the old shanty homes that lined the old two-lane road. It also shows the old wooden bridge that was located right before the entrance to the island. We always liked crossing that bridge because it made us feel like we were driving on the boardwalk. This footage was taken by my mom, Dolores Cherkasky, as my dad, Joseph Cherkasky, was driving our old 1980 Buick station wagon. You can hear plenty of bickering between my parents as the camera rolled.
It’s embedded in our memories that sound of the rickety bridge! As a kid you just knew you made it once you heard it❣️
Wowwwww, what a flashback! I SO remember this from my childhood. The Grassy Sound bridge, Zaberer's, The Shell Shop! Good Times!
Spent most of my childhood summers all those places! Taking the boat out from west wildwood fishing dad's place or cape may! Wish I could go back to 1988!
@@karl5633 I wholeheartedly agree. Great times.
Just brought my kids down last weekend and was remembering that drive over the bridge and houses on the side of the road before. Memories. We used to stay at the Ocean Side at 15th and ocean
I remember that drive all to well I miss those old days in wildwood..
What I wouldn't give for that.
@@karl5633 I remember waking the boardwalk in Wildwood NJ during the 1980s I remember the sound effects from the video games being with the family and smelling the food.. I remember seeing the movie Honey I Shrunk the kids in that movie theater that was on the boardwalk, I just remember seeing it on a rainy day..
Saw my Grandmother's summer home in Grassy Sounds! Brought a tear to my eye. Family used to vacation here every summer in the 70's and early 80's. I loved Wildwood. I really miss those days. Thank you so much for posting this!
Fantastic video ( movie back then haha) Been going to North Wildwood for 70 yrs, since I was 2. Bought a place in 1991. Remember that drive well. This is an historic classic. Please consider donating a copy to the Wildwood Historical society. All the landmarks etc. You shared a gem with us, thanks.
Actually, it was still video when we shot this in 87. We do have some movies of wildwood, but they didn't have sound.
Driving across Grassy Sound and seeing Zaberer's again. Great memories.
Wow thanks for posting this video!!!! I grew up traveling this road as a kid on the way to the shore. The memories came barging back like the koolAid man.
Priceless, I can smell the bay and see the ferris wheel in the distance.
Wow what a blast from the past! I used to love driving through the shanty town and over the "boardwalk" bridge. Thanks for sharing this. I just lost my dad last week, but for 18 summers of my life I got to hear that bickering back and forth.
Always thought we were going to fall thru that bridge.
Oh man seeing the sea shell shop again 🥰 still have coconut pirate heads from there
Yes remember this well, along with the 25 cent parkway tolls !
I miss that old look, I loved our house in Grassy Sounds
Yes! The turnpike! This was exactly the time when my family used to drive from Philly to Wildwood for a week each summer. Spend time in a beach motel rental and then hit the water and then boardwalk. Great to be an 80s kid riding in my Dad's wood-panelled station wagon!
The NJ turnpike, doesn't go down, to the south Jersey region. That, is the NJ Parkway.
Garden State Parkway. This video was the summer between 8th grade and freshman year in high school for me (9th-12th HS). We used to go to Wildwood nearly every week (except when I’d spend 2 or so weeks at my aunt and uncle’s place near Sesame Place in Langhorne). I THOUGHT it was $0.25 toll back then and this proves me right. When I started driving in ‘90 I think it was then $0.35 (it certainly was by college in a year or so). I just couldn’t be sure. And so many friends remember $0.35 tolls that I doubted my memory. But DAMN I’m good.
I think I spent more time there (Langhorne) that summer as ‘84 was our last summer before personal/family events changed things. That means I missed the Raging Waters water parks opening.. but Sportland Pier was still open and the Gravitron was new at Morey’s Pier and the Flyer roller coaster on Hunts Pier was still flying and the Golden Nugget was still running). Funny thing .. that uncle in Langhorne .. going to his funeral this weekend. 😢
I got a modem for my home computer that summer. That sure changed things for me.
And here is the thing that sent chills up/down my spine .. the man driving the Buick wagon referred to “shanty town” and that’s what my grandfather (a WW I vet) called it. Interesting.
best bridge ever
I used to be terrified of this bridge when I was a kid! Listen to those wooden planks😮. That’s exactly what I used to call it - the rickety bridge.
We used to hold our breath as we crossed that bridge
I remember all this
I wonder what became of those people that basically got thrown out of their homes 😢 because I went through this section about a year ago and this is all completely different now! Really wild back in the 70's and 80's..
I think most of those homes were condemned by the time they built the new highway. They were in bad shape.
The big house that was by Moore’s Inlet was washed out to sea. It was on the other side of the road
All I have to say is tube socks pulled all the way up was a look.
When driving down to North Wildwood kids would ask are we halve way there yet. Would tell them not until we drove over the wooden bridges & thru shanty town.
Love it
The "shanty town" had a name, Grassy Sound!
@@terrymurphy4737 it will always be shanty town to us.
Agreed. In a reply to another comment on this vid I mentioned that my WW I era grandfather also called it shanty town.
Love time capsules, like this. Those shantytowns, were all razed down for the right-of-way, 'Emenant Domain', laws. Plus, all those houses, did not have proper sewage connection's (most of them, emptied into the salt water, underneath), and went against EPA, and DEP federal laws. I grew up, and lived on the island, all my life. The Lou Booth motel, was still the Lou Booth motel, but the o+u fell off.
They purposely changed the name of Lou Booth Motel to Le Boot after she sold the motel because her family wouldn't let the new owners continue to use the Lou Booth name.
can still hear the wooden bridge
And feel the car driving over it too ❤