Here are a couple of photos of Asbury Park taken in June 2006. I don't believe Springsteen has since or ever put his money where his mouth "was".
Posted on 10/31/2012 2:32:21 AM PDT by markomalley
Unbelivable. My family is an old time Belmar family, this is where I grew up. My grandparents owned a small dinner next to the elementary school, long gone now. Belmar was a great place to live in the late 60s/70s. Graduated from Belmar elem school in 1972 then Manasquan HS class 1976. As a kid, I fished for snappers and blowfish with half of the kids in town in the marina, great memories. And the beach, such fun.
I have 3 sisters and 2 brothers, none of us live in Belmar anymore, it’s just too expensive there. I’m courious to know how our old house in 13th ave made out.
“things like this are always a boon to gentrification projects and enhanced commercialism.”
You need a gentry to support gentrification, and you need return on investment to support commercialism.
“NJ taxes might finish what the storm started.”
I suspect that is why the federal spigot will be opened - so that the tax base won’t be devastated.
I think it would be an instructive exercise to hold everybody who hopes to rebuild to the letter of every law and regulation NJ has - and when they realize it’s impossible, get rid of it for everybody, not just those who wish to rebuild.
Wow. I’ve never been there—but that is devastating damage. Very sad. I hope they can regroup in some manner before the next tourist season.
As someone else said—let’s get Springsteen on the case! :) I couldn’t stand him with Obama—but I’ll bet he can raise some money. Jon Bon Jovi, as well. At the moment, I can’t think of other NJ musical artists, but maybe they can all get together for some sort of benefit concert. Not everything has to be done by the federal government; Americans are generous.
Here are a couple of photos of Asbury Park taken in June 2006. I don't believe Springsteen has since or ever put his money where his mouth "was".
Umm, yeah. The front of the Stone Pony hasn't looked that clean in years...Maybe Bruuuce can do something useful now like a benefit...
The pictures of the pilings in Atlantic City where they boardwalk used to be are shocking but not telling the full story. There is a small portion of boardwalk at the end that was especially exposed and that’s now gone. But that’s also a part that is really no very often used. The main portion, where the casinos and the shops are, is still intact.
Everytime I read one of these stories about shorelines being destroyed all I can think of is this song by Neil Diamond:
There was a flood and many poor men were killed.
And that is why our house is built on the top of a hill.
The plains are like a friend, why can’t we live on them?
And if a flood should come, why can’t we run?
I am the lion, bellowing out in the night
No, he has not.
I hate to admit it but I used to hang out in AP because of Springsteen.
Every chance I got, I’d go spend a few days just slumming around the oh-so-melodramatic/romantic *ghost town*.
For a long time, NY homosexuals have been quietly populating it.
[google ‘gay Asbury park’]
The last time I was there, Madam Marie’s decrepit shack was still on the boardwalk.
Apparently she’s upgraded to a new store front.
The last time I was there Park Place had “mysteriously burned down” and ‘family’ had bought up a lot of the property but development was stalled.
There were a lot of incredible bar bands up there and I loved going.
The Palace was in ruins and has since been torn down but there was a fund drive to save “Tillie”.
But it’s ghost town now and probably always will be.
http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/nj/asburypark.html
Which bizarrely, has made it a destination spot for weirdos like me, apparently...:)
http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/2010-08-17-asbury-park-bruce-springsteen_N.htm
Well it’s not going to do 0 any political good if things aren’t quite as bad as he wants them to seem, now is it?
:-\
Jimi Hendrix/Castles Made Of Sand
Jesus/ And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand.
I never understood why people built anything near the ocean.
Then again, I’m a hillbilly and not much for flatland, in general.
Grew up on the jersey shore and Asbury Park was always “Newark by the Sea.” I hear it’s changed, but I’d have to see it to believe it. Spent my summers in Spring Lake, so I hate seeing those beaches and the boardwalk in shambles. Loved Belmar in the summer. I suppose as long as DJais is still there that Belmar will continue being Belmar. There was no place like the shore back in the late 70’s and 80’s.
I'm waiting for pictures from friends ... I lived there for a decade or so
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I can remember the night the Peninsula house burned down
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Any one that builds in a designated flood plain deserved what they get....in the old days (i am old) you checked with the township hall before buying land to see if it was a flood plain...they call it that for a reason...
One of my son’s picked a beautiful piece of land to build a home...told him to check.....yep, flood plain, thats why it was vacant...
“Sandy, the fireworks are hailing over Little Egypt tonight.”
The growing season down south is much longer and you can replace the plants in a summer or two; longer for trees of course. This is not so in the north. It will take awhile before the trees in the direct path are tall again.
Apple Blossom
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