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Gillian's Wonderland Pier was a historic amusement park in Ocean City, New Jersey. It was founded in 1965 by Roy Gillian, son of David Gillian who first came to Ocean City in 1914. [2] It was located near the beginning of the commercial boardwalk on 6th street.
Ocean City, New Jersey boardwalk looking north at 12th Street. Ocean City, a notable dry town, first built its wooden boardwalk in 1880 from the Second Street wharf to Fourth Street and West Avenue. In 1885, plans were made to extend the boardwalk the entire length of the beach after the first amusement pavilion opened on 11th Street into the 2 ...
Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.It is the principal city of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Cape May County, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. [21]
Ocean City Boardwalk (New Jersey) in Ocean City, New Jersey This page was last edited on 4 May 2019, at 12:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
New Jersey's attorney general on Friday blamed a Jersey Shore town for not having enough police officers patrolling its boardwalk over the Memorial Day weekend, when the force was overwhelmed and ...
An entertainment boardwalk often contains an amusement park, casinos, or hotels on a pier-like structure. [2] One of the earliest such boardwalks was designed in New Jersey and opened June 26, 1870, in Atlantic City, [3] and one of the longest is Mazatlán's Malecón, at 13 miles (21 km) of oceanfront boardwalk. [4]
A bikini-clad rider and horse dive 75 feet into a pool as part of a boardwalk show, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1969. Riders sometimes suffered serious injuries in the exciting display of derring ...
In 1988, Ocean City added a Historic Preservation Plan Element to its master plan. Three years later, the city designated the Ocean City Residential Historic District from Third to Eighth Streets, and along Wesley, Ocean, and Central Avenues; also included in the District was the Life-Saving Station at 4th and Atlantic. [4]