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--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > The fact is that they never tried
> > to be tourist attractions. They are largely family residential
> towns
> > although I wouldn't put Sea Girt in that list.
>
>
> It appears you are conceding that a residential town on the beach
> without tourism can and does work. That is what I want for Asbury
> Park. I was here when it was a tourist attraction, and it's
> magnificence has been greatly over-romanticized by the people who
> never saw it. It will be better as a residential community on the
> beachfront.
>
> That's why I support the incumbents.
>
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Lighty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 5/10/05 4:41 PM, "bluebishop82" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Then with your assumptions, please explain to me the decades of
> > > success of places that were never "tourist" attractions like Sea
> > > Girt, Allenhurst, Monmouth Beach, Avon, Brielle, Loch Arbor. Why
> > > are they not failing as you assert Belmar is right now?
> > >
> >
> > I believe you answered your own question. The fact is that they
> never tried
> > to be tourist attractions. They are largely family residential
> towns
> > although I wouldn't put Sea Girt in that list.
> >
> > Asbury Park was known and is still known throughout the world for
> the beach
> > and for music. It's a shame to throw all of that away simply
> because it may
> > be "difficult" to become a tourist attraction again. When I was
> young, kids
> > went to Asbury Park and Long Branch and rarely went to Point
> Pleasant. That
> > town now gets more tourist revenue than many towns could dream
> about. I do
> > not see any reason why a town like Asbury Park couldn't regain its
> stature.
> >
> > The difference is that I believe tourism can help solve many of
> Asbury
> > Park's economic problems. Meanwhile the lessening of tourism has
> deeply
> > affected the economic problems of my town (Belmar) although as
> correctly
> > pointed out, the value of our houses has increased dramatically.
> How long
> > that will happen with a disappearing Main Street has yet to be
> seen.
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