Touring Wildwood, NJ - 1987

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  • Опубликовано: 3 сен 2022
  • On June 14, 1987, my dad and I toured around Wildwood, New Jersey with the family VHS camcorder. My dad, Joseph Cherkasky, did the recording and narrating while I just played around with pay phones and took in the surroundings. I was twelve years old at this time and had been coming to Wildwood my entire life, so we were reliving some of the things we had done in the past. The video ends with my brother and me on the beach and captures the moment I find some money floating in the ocean.

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  • @noellemackenzie4219
    @noellemackenzie4219 Год назад +10

    My mom and dad honeymooned at the Thunderbird in May of 1967, and I was a honeymoon baby! Thank you so much for sharing these videos with us. Just lovely.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Год назад +2

      Neat memory...thanks for sharing!

    • @bignuts850
      @bignuts850 Год назад +1

      The Thunderbird gone
      Condos now

    • @tolfan4438
      @tolfan4438 6 месяцев назад +1

      Honeymoon baby is that what they told you

    • @noellemackenzie4219
      @noellemackenzie4219 5 месяцев назад

      Hahahaha---I laughed so hard when I read your comment. :) Thanks for that. @@tolfan4438

  • @infinite_vortex
    @infinite_vortex Год назад +11

    This is simply MAGICAL. Thank you so much for sharing this from the personal archives. Your dad seemed like a cool guy. So much amazing footage in this some places that are still there, others that are not, and I love the backstories behind it. It may sound weird but the videos I do try to emulate that style and feel of 80's and 90's home videos, not new style vlogs. There's something special about showing memories of places. Would love to see more footage like this in the future, if you ever feel comfortable sharing.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Год назад +8

      Thanks Sean...our dad was a great guy...he passed in 2010. Now I'm the one documenting Wildwood...and my daughter is about the same age as I was in this video. I do have more videos similar to this one that I plan on uploading...so stay tuned!

  • @ESPONET
    @ESPONET Год назад +6

    I love this! Thanks for posting. I lived in Wildwood. 12th and New Jersey the summer of 1987. I watched intently hoping to see someone I knew.

  • @michaelkoszowski3716
    @michaelkoszowski3716 5 месяцев назад +3

    This is great ...you will always have great memories...and that 10 dollars is probably equivalent to 50 today !! ..lol.

    • @rogerrendzak8055
      @rogerrendzak8055 4 месяца назад +1

      Yes.

    • @KayFabe87
      @KayFabe87 3 месяца назад

      $27.34 according to the government's BLS inflation calculator, but your figure of $50 is probably more accurate given the inconsistent way that big gov measures inflation.

  • @joelashadali
    @joelashadali 10 месяцев назад +2

    I was 22 and running rampant thru Wildwood lol

  • @KevinWBJJ
    @KevinWBJJ 8 месяцев назад +2

    As a kid in the 80s from Delaware, we would vacation in Wildwood every summer and stay at the American Inn. I think it was very close to the Lou Booth because I remember that name well :) Great memories of the boardwalk rides, lime rickys and macks pizza. Hoping to come back one day soon. American Inn is still there!

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  8 месяцев назад +1

      The American is right next to Lou Booth (now Le Boot). In fact, Lou Booth originally built the American Inn, then sold it and built Lou Booth Motel.

    • @KevinWBJJ
      @KevinWBJJ 8 месяцев назад

      @DarkinthePark as a kid I was very friendly with the D'Andrea family that owned American Inn. Great memories at that property

  • @realmccoy
    @realmccoy Год назад +2

    Really cool video. Thanks for sharing! Please post if you have any others. I loved Wildwood in the 80s!!!

  • @robby062
    @robby062 8 месяцев назад +1

    What a great video. I was actually down there that same week, at the Water’s Edge in the Crest. Went there every summer from 1969 to 1987. Everything always looked mostly the same to me and I always found that comforting. Went another summer or so and then 1996 was the last year I was there until 2021, when my wife’s friend invited us down. She finally got hooked like I was and we go every year now, but it’s definitely not what it used to be.

  • @AWHNJ
    @AWHNJ 4 дня назад

    Wow, this brings back memories. From the late 70s through early 90s, my family stayed in Cape May for a week every Summer with frequent trips to Wildwood (I was also twelve in 1987). What a fantastic era to grow up in NJ! As a young adult, I stayed in WW with friends many times. After a 20+ year hiatus, my wife and I visited in 2022 and 2023. Some things have certainly changed, but it's still Wildwood. It still has the charm of the old motels and diners, as the town hasn't been bought up and corporatized with mega resorts and tourist traps. Still has the piers and the gigantic beach on the south end. Still a fun place to visit, but the 80s/90s were really awesome in WW.

  • @bradbel
    @bradbel Год назад +2

    I love the narration at the very end “they are frolicking”

  • @patrickstapleton3377
    @patrickstapleton3377 Год назад +1

    These are AMAZING memories!! Wildwood was my childhood home away from home... thank you for sharing this video! Your dad sounds like a great guy!

  • @owlnswan4016
    @owlnswan4016 5 месяцев назад

    This is wonderful...thank you for sharing it with us...

  • @tomfrombrick
    @tomfrombrick 8 месяцев назад +1

    1:15 is an amazing shot. I was born less than a wk after this video was taken.
    I proposed to my wife on the ferris wheel in 2018.
    Nuff said

  • @robkrasinski6217
    @robkrasinski6217 Год назад +5

    Wildwood just isn’t the same without a functioning Hunt’s Pier or even Dinosaur Beach and Castle Dracula. I experienced all of those like you guys did but there were a bunch of years I missed like 1984-1994, 1997, 1999 and up but we went back one more time July 5-9, 2011. I regret not going in Morey’s Haunted House in the early 80’s and Whacky Shack on Hunt’s Pier, and Castle Frankenstein on Fun Pier, it was open from 1978-July 1982 and burned Aug 1984. We went to Busch Gardens in Virginia in Aug 1984. Are you friends with Scott Hand? I think he hates me now, he blocked me from his invite only Wildwoods page with rare photos of long gone stuff and his personal page several months ago. He loved Hunt’s Pier as a kid through 1985 before it was sold to new owners. My younger brother and I lost our mom in the hospital on June 14. Her breathing was bad and they hooked her up to a vent. She had to write down what she wanted to say when she was awake. She slept a lot. We made a decision to remove it with her sister who lives 60 miles away and on the day they removed it she passed within 10 minutes. I loved the haunted attractions at Lake George, NY in August 2004 and at Niagara Falls, Ontario in July 2006. They both have a House of Frankenstein. Niagara Falls has several including a Haunted House and Castle Dracula. You guys went there.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Год назад

      Sorry about your mom.

    • @davidprice5771
      @davidprice5771 Год назад +2

      A lot of kids I went to High school with( I went to Lower) first job was at Castle Dracula

    • @rogerrendzak8055
      @rogerrendzak8055 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@davidprice5771 Wow!!!! Kinda, the same here!! And I went, to Wildwood High.

  • @KayFabe87
    @KayFabe87 3 месяца назад

    The Thunderbird was great. My friends and I used to stay there whenever we could during our trips to Wildwood in the early to mid 90's. Sadly it is gone, but the memories live on. Thanks for the video and trip down memory lane.

  • @el_fantasma215
    @el_fantasma215 Месяц назад

    I remember every year that little book would come in the mail with all the hotels in it...I gotta find one of those.

  • @robkrasinski6217
    @robkrasinski6217 Год назад +2

    Was Sportland Pier closed and rides falling apart between 1984 and 1989 after Ted Snyder bought it? Dr. Blood’s House of Horror sat there until Jan 2007 when it was razed. Props and stuff were saved and wound up in the Ramdyland building old Woolworth. He has so much crap in there. But he has Whacky Shack props and cars in his arcade on the boardwalk. That stuff was in storage from 1995 until a few years ago. The Whacky Shack, Hunt’s Horror from 1989 and up was SBNO in 1995 and was pushed into a dumpster early 1996.

    • @rogerrendzak8055
      @rogerrendzak8055 4 месяца назад +1

      Fellow, local perhaps🤔??

    • @ElleCee62978
      @ElleCee62978 28 дней назад

      I can answer this, I think. The short answer? Yes. I stayed at the Shore Plaza then. I think by 1988 (I was 10) Sportland was nothing but a dunk tank and go carts. The only ride still on the pier was Dr. Blood’s, but it was abandoned. I have pictures of me as a young child on Sportland. I think it closed in 1983? I’m more familiar with Hunt’s Pier history

  • @thenakawulskis8611
    @thenakawulskis8611 Год назад

    Le Boot!!!! Been going there since I was a kid. 40 years later and still go there. Love Wildwood ❤

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Год назад

      Did you ever meet Lou Booth when she owned the motel?

    • @thenakawulskis8611
      @thenakawulskis8611 Год назад

      @@DarkinthePark Maybe, but if I did, I was only a kid. I will ask my Mom when I see her this weekend.

    • @thenakawulskis8611
      @thenakawulskis8611 Год назад

      @@DarkinthePark Just asked my Mom and she said yup, we met the husband and wife, both very nice people 🤗

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Год назад +1

      @@thenakawulskis8611 Okay. We only ever met Lou Booth (a woman). Her husband was either deceased or they were divorced by the time we started staying at the motel. I do remember her having kids though.

  • @BassPlayerKenNYC
    @BassPlayerKenNYC Год назад +1

    Wonderful vid and all the great tidbits added in. Did your dad visit when the condo craze was in full effect? It must have been pretty devastating for him I would think. Still hard to get over it after all this time

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Год назад +3

      My parents bought a house in N. Wildwood in 1991...and I along with my dad started staying in Wildwood for the entire summer. My dad was still alive during the condo craze but I don't think it really phased him. We were no longer staying in the motels...and many of the ones that were torn down were WAY past their prime. The saddest thing for me was the loss of Hunt's Pier....that was our favorite.

  • @luckynonna
    @luckynonna Год назад

    Great video. I had to save it, Bill

  • @MrLyosea
    @MrLyosea 11 месяцев назад +1

    How old was your dad? He sounds a bit up there seeing how he was joking he was a senior citizen with the other old folks at the end. I guess he's like my dad who was 47 when I was born. He was 59 when I was 12. Your dad seems like a cool guy knowing all the sights! Great vid man!

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  11 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks. My dad was born in 28 so he was 61 in this video.

    • @MrLyosea
      @MrLyosea 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@DarkinthePark Oh wow he was up there when ya were born. Nice.

  • @rick3747
    @rick3747 Год назад

    From 1991-1998, I would go the Wildwoods in August for the huge record collectables show. I would always get these awesome french fries in a paper bag from some pizza place near the rooftop miniture golf place. Anyone remember what are the names of those places? BTW, the fries were *not* Curley's. I am 100% sure.
    Thank you for sharing your families videos!

  • @robkrasinski6217
    @robkrasinski6217 Год назад +1

    What were all those dumpy looking areas with debris? One was a nightclub that burned and the other area where you showed your 80's station wagon there was junk all around. And there was new construction in 1987, it wasn't just 2002 and up where new construction took place and old buildings were razed, it happened in the 20th century, too but between 2002-2008 it seemed to happen at a faster pace. I will always miss Hunt's Pier and Castle Dracula because I like haunted attractions and themed dark rides. Now Morey's only has three, Dante's, Pirates and Ghost Ship. Rehoboth Beach and ocean City, MD have some cool ones and OC, MD has two Bill Tracy attractions, Haunted House ride through built 1964 and expanded in 1989, and walk-through Pirate's Cove built 1971. I was at OC, MD in Aug 1988 and July 2000, and Rehoboth Beach July 2000. i went through the Bill Tracy attractions in OC, MD in 2000 for the first time, I missed them in 1988 and I also didn't go through the Morbid Manor walk through on the pier in 1988 it burned Nov 1995. It was built by the same guys that did the Haunted House on Morey's Pier, Jim DeMusz, Fred and George Mahana.

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  Год назад

      You're probably referring to 2 Mile Landing....where there is a seafood restaurant.

    • @rogerrendzak8055
      @rogerrendzak8055 4 месяца назад +1

      Morbid Manor, didn't burn down. It wasn't erected 'till 2010, and it closed, in 2012. I 'scared' there, for Teddy Syder, in the last year☺️!!!

    • @robkrasinski6217
      @robkrasinski6217 4 месяца назад +1

      I was referring to the Morbid Manor walkthrough on the pier in Ocean City, MD, designed and built by the same guys that did Morey’s Pier Haunted House which existed from 1972-1984. The late Jim DeMusz and Fred Mahana and his cousin George Mahana. MM in OC, MD existed from 1975-Nov 1995. A ride through called Ghost was there late 90’s and up, and now there is a Morbid Manor ride through there. The one in Wildwood on Sportland Pier was by Eric Princz and featured a few things from Castle Dracula and Hunt’s Pier and was open 2011-2012.

  • @anthonyp4475
    @anthonyp4475 5 месяцев назад

    I spent weeks every summer there in the 70s 80s and 90s

  • @Eagles.Fan.Since.Super.Bowl.52
    @Eagles.Fan.Since.Super.Bowl.52 Год назад +1

    I still can't believe castle dracula burned down. Stupid kids broke in and apparently made torches. The rest is history.

    • @rogerrendzak8055
      @rogerrendzak8055 4 месяца назад +1

      Inside job. No need to look any further, than the owners.

  • @NickIsWearingATie
    @NickIsWearingATie 11 месяцев назад

    I stayed at 23rd ave. It has really changed

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  11 месяцев назад +1

      Much has changed...but there is still a lot that is the same.

  • @davidhibbs6989
    @davidhibbs6989 8 месяцев назад

    Lil bill and Joseph are grown adults now probably pushing 50!😅

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  8 месяцев назад +2

      Yep...Joseph turned 50 and I'm 48.

  • @ianmcbride3100
    @ianmcbride3100 Месяц назад

    Sounds like Dad had some breakfast Schlitzes

  • @luckynonna
    @luckynonna Год назад +2

    Bill's 10 dollars

    • @davidhibbs6989
      @davidhibbs6989 8 месяцев назад

      $30 dollars in today's money 💰

  • @hauntedhose
    @hauntedhose 5 месяцев назад

    Good stuff ….better at 1.5 x speed tho 😁

    • @DarkinthePark
      @DarkinthePark  5 месяцев назад +1

      Thank God for multiple playback speeds! :)