Asbury Park, NJ 60's
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2009
- What a wonderful time to be alive, and to be young enough to enjoy Asbury Park, NJ in the 60's. The boardwalks were crowded with happy people. You could smell the popcorn & cotton candy from Jay's penny arcade to the Convention Center. Who knows, maybe one day it will all come back. Although this transfer is of very low quality, the original 8mm film is still in pristine condition. I plan to have a proper transfer and repost at a later date. Stay tuned.
This is only depressing because these times are gone :-(((
I'm crying so hard. What a difference 20 years was going to make. Hope they invent a time machine, this would be my first stop.
My mom used to take me to the Asbury Park boardwalk when I was a little kid in the mid-60s. I remember spending the day at the beach and going on all the (little kid) rides. Thanks for the memories!
My family would always drive there in the summer. Out of all the beaches in NJ I loved Asbury. 🤗
I, too, grew up on that boardwalk during that time. It was so great. Thanks for posting
Thanks for posting this.This is the Park still burned into my memory.
Wow-brings back memories! I still have a big bag of penny arcade toys from the crane machines in Asbury Park-when they were 2 cents! I was just in Asbury Park on Saturday with my 3 kids and it was alive and bustling. Beach was packed, lots of nice restaurants and shops-great to see it buzzing with people again.
The music may be Patrick O'Hearn's "Reunion," but it sounds a lot like Bruce Springsteen's "Human Touch" or "Tunnel of Love." Perfect. Many thanks!
It's a hell of a lot of fun to look at these old videos and see from where we came!
I love watching this.What a great town it was.👍
I was living on the Jersey shore in 1963 and started HS that year.This was the Asbury I remember from when I was a kid.
I have a TON of wonderful, childhood memories associated with Asbury Park in the '70's/early '80's! If only we could all turn back the hands of time.....*sigh*
Thanks for the memories!!
+greg errautt My dad grew up in Asbury Park in the 50s and early 60s. He was able to enjoy the good years there. I do wish we could go back in time and STAY THERE!!! Haha It was a beautiful place there back then. It will never be the same anymore. Those days have come and gone and is now only a memory. I wish I could experience it but I can't.
Were you a benny? Lmao
@@starxlr7863 how old is your dad?
@@SAMEntalhealth My dad was born in 1953 and lived in Asbury Park/Longbranch from about 1959-1967.
@@starxlr7863 Asbury Park is getting better
Thanks SO MUCH for this PRICELESS footage! I actually lived there when this was shot, on 5th Ave. right down the street from the HOJO's! The Palace, the Casino & bumper cars, Convention Hall, 50 cent golf, 5 & 10 cent pinball, we were rich if we had a BUCK!! Some of the best times of my life, & you captured it! -Al
Wow, what a great video! You did a fantastic job editing the shots and having the proper flow with the music. I can't wait to see it in higher picture quality.
I never got to experience Asbury Park in it's heyday, so thanks for letting me live it through your camera lens. I did, luckily, get the same feelings of joy at Seaside Heights in the late 60's and early 70's. It seems the happy crowds, the sounds, smells, and sights are something that was part of the Jersey Shore at that time.
Thanks for sharing your video brings back memory’s.
This was a great film. Glad you were able to show it on here. My dad grew up in Asbury Park during the 50s and early 60s. It really was a beautiful place and a special place. If only all the historic buildings were still there. Many of those buildings were not maintained and left to fall apart being neglected. This makes me sad and its even more sad for my father!!! Asbury Park is only a memory for him. It will never be the same.
Holy smokes, thanks for the memories. We used to hang out down there back in the 60s. Then I was drafted, and nothing was the same any more.........
Wow that's wild :-(
Classic Beautiful footage from a city that was like my 2nd home in my youth ! Thanks for posting !
thanks for sharing! very nice
Thank you so much for sharing
Wan't born yet but I wish I could go back in time and be a kid then and just enjoy it for just one day!
Great memories Thanks! I lived on Kingsley & 4th ave. (61-66). First paid job at
Palace Amusements, then Reade theaters, & rides on boardwalk.
Nice Video - thanks for sharing !!!
Yes it was. I've watched your video some time ago and just watched it again. I distinctly remember one such night on Sunday August 21, 1961 when it was my 5th birthday and I was SO excited to be going to Asbury Park! And went into Palace Amusements and rode that beautiful carousel and I remember the very first time I heard the doors singing "baby won't you light my fire!!" So every single time I hear that song. BAM time warp back to NJ on that carousel! What a time it was. I knew nothing of the vietnam war or anything. I was a kid having fun. It is all but a memory now. I still have a pic of a friend and I we took in the photo booth I think it was in the convention center? Casino? This was in the 70''s.
This is how i remember Asbury when I was a kid. What happened to this town is a real shame although my brother tells me it is making a comeback of sorts. I left the Jersey Shore in 1967 and except for one year in 1971 I never went back.
Such wonderful days! My mother lived in Asbury Park and she knew some guy that owned the rides and his girlfriend would always tell the ticket people to gives us kids enough tickets to go in all the rides twice to stay out of the grown ups hair lolol. She lived in a rooming house called the Shalimar … i thought it was so cool… we spent our days on the boardwalk alone as little kids back then
The best of days...
I miss Asbury Park GOOD Memories there my mom had old home Family Movies of me n my 3 brothers n Pictures also I cried when I heard they where Clossing up Asbury Park
that was very nice!
Asbury has a long a rich history. Captured here on 8mm movie film you get a taste of it. Family. You see it on this film. It's missing today.
I used to go there in the eighties as a child and I remember riding those mixing bowls that I just seen in the beginning of the video. I don't remember the ice skating rink or whatever it was inside of there I just remember the casino and the palace is mostly what I remember from being a child born in 74 and going there in like the middle 80s
I so agree I'm born n raised in Jersey I moved to North Carolina 03 but I'll still and always will be a Jersey Girl .
I remember Ripley's Believe It or Not in the Casino
Even the pigeons were stylish :(( loll
Love my town
The Park was the absolute best,
Took wife and kids to the Park couple of summers, (82/83) it was a shell of what it was in the late 60's and thanksgiving 1985, last time palace was open. Got my ring merry goround
:((((( wish I could've lived through the 60s
Lucky! I wish I was a teen in the 60's
Wow i remember staying at my aunt house in Highlands for a few weeks in the summertime in the 60"s and the big thing was on Saturday night were would we go Asbury or Keansbuge boardwalk. Thanks for the Viedo
@DonTerhune1200cc I believe it was around 1964. The year the BEATLES came to the States.
RYAN ROCKS one lucky raised in Asbury Park Jersey Girl, I am. I wish everyone could experience what it was really like back in the day. I LOVE ASBURY PARK AND ALWAYS WILL.
I'm a Long Beach Island girl since 1973... but I decided to take a trip up to Asbury Park in August 2013. I fell in love with its charm! I can just feel the spirit of days gone by.... weird, I know.... but there is something about this place. I will always spend summers on LBI...but I will definitely get to Asbury at least once a year! :) I love my Jersey shore. GREAT VIDEO AND MUSIC!! Are you one of the young boys?? Such a nice family!
Yes, I'm the silly one who photo-bombs the cameraman ;)
reelmensch
Awesome...I love it! Great music to go along with it too Such nice memories for you! :)
I am guessing these are your parents and grandparents/aunts/uncles as well??
You are correct. It was an amazing time, and still only seems like yesterday.
Loved it grow up there in the summer Monte Carlo pool the best
WOW! The casino had Ice Skating?!
Wow. Was so young. 62 now. TIME CAME N WENT FAST....
It's hard to believe what has become of the city today.
That's cool
reunion by
Patrick O'Hearn
awesome
@LewKaplanski I can't recall the name of the song, but Patrick O'Hearn is the composer.
Asbury Park is a whole different place now, its sad how it turn out.
7 movie theathers,a thriving usiness area,best boardwalk ever&It disappeared after the 1970 riots.
truly wonderful film... I am actually working on obtaining archive footage for a first feature length documentary film about Asbury Park. Would love if this film clip ended up in our doc.. Is this something you'd be interested in?
I certainly would be. Please contact me at reelmensch@aol to discuss. Thx.
@@reelmensch have you something about The Doors 1968?
Are you local??
I'm a bradley beach boy but Asbury is my 2nd home.
Bradley is the next 2 towns over
Hello from The Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce - this is a great video - for anyone that would like to see how Asbury Park is moving forward these days, check out our favorites at APCC308. Please share with your friends and spread the word! Thanks!
Im guessing lady with the ground
Groovy glasses and colored dresses family lolll
@atomicsockhop Is Asbury Park nice again? I've only been there once, many years ago... and it was creepy and run-down. I'm serious, is it worth visiting again?
Reelmensch said: "What a wonderful time to be alive". Couldn't have said it better myself, & thank u 4 posting. What year in the 60's was this footage taken?
I would say, around 1965.
What song is this??!!!
Patrick Ohearn ...good choice.
What song??
@@SAMEntalhealth Patrick O'Hearn's "REUNION."
"Beyond the (Palace) Hemi powered drones scream down the blvd"
Been a ghost town since I was 16 in 1970 that was year of the riots
Asbury did fine throughout the 1970's. The 80's is when it fell apart.
salmonline fell apart 1970
Wow 10 years ago I said that
@@tonydepalma Asbury did fine throughout the 1970's. The 80's is when it fell apart.
No I grew up going in the early seventies and it was definately not a ghost town. A lot of this feeling was still around at that time. Things still looked good, still a lot of families going there. It slowly got worse and the 80's weren't the same.
Most people were dressed nice.
I live in Asbury Park and by 0:25 it looks nothing like it is 2day!
Love our hometown ;-)
Who's home video is this ?
Mine. Now what? ;)
I'm gonna call Pizza Plus and order some chicken fried crack.
Wow looky there, everyone's white... no crime