Touring Wildwood, NJ - 1987 

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.

I was 22 and running rampant thru Wildwood lol

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!

I stayed at 23rd ave. It has really changed

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

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.

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.

Bill's 10 dollars

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

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.

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

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!

Sounds like Dad had some breakfast Schlitzes

Good stuff ….better at 1.5 x speed tho 😁

Great video. I had to save it, Bill

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