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Asbury Park's Glory Days: the Story of an American Resort
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Asbury Park's Glory Days: the Story of an American Resort Hardcover - 2005

by Helen-Chantal Pike


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Long before Bruce Springsteen picked up a guitar; before Danny DeVito drove a taxi; before Jack Nicholson flew over the cuckoo's nest, Asbury Park was a seashore Shangri-La filled with shimmering odes to civic greatness, world-renowned baby parades, temples of retail, and atmospheric movie palaces. It was a magnet for tourists, a summer vacation mecca-to some degree New Jersey's own Coney Island. In Asbury Park's Glory Days, award-winning author Helen-Chantal Pike chronicles the city's heyday-the ninety-year period between 1890 and 1980. Pike illuminates the historical conditions contributing to the town's cycle of booms and recessions. She investigates the factors that influenced these peaks, such as location, lodging, dining, nightlife, merchandising, and immigration, and how and why millions of people spent their leisure time within this one-square-mile boundary on the northern coast of the state. Pike also includes an epilogue describing recent attempts to resurrect this once-vibrant city.

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  • Title Asbury Park's Glory Days: the Story of an American Resort
  • Author Helen-Chantal Pike
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 207
  • Publisher Rivergate Books, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • Date 2005
  • ISBN 9780813535470

About the author

Helen-Chantal Pike is the author of many books including Greetings from New Jersey: A Postcard Tour of the Garden State (Rutgers University Press). She lectures in media and teaches writing while researching her next book.
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New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth-effect boards, lettered/decorated in gold. New/as issued, color pictorial dust jacket now in mylar. 1st ptg. xiii,208 pp., illus..
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