--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In reference to _ridkid004's_ (mailto:ridkid004'[EMAIL PROTECTED],your) comment: > > > > Bankers Furniture was firebombed the fire spread and that was it. The Cops then decided to end the riots. Once it crossed the tracks. The whole city had a curfew. That was the final nail. The city never recover. Then the corrupt politicians took office and got very rich. Left nothing for the city. Then the city got very dependant on State and Fed. Aid. We had over 50 legal rooming houses with 2000 mentaly ill patients release from Marboro and other places from througout the state. Imaging walking the boardwalk and seeing dozens and dozens of these drugged up patients walking the boardwalk unsupervised, it was like the night of the living dead. Every morning and every afternoon. Picking through the garbage going to the bathroom will ever they wanted begging for money. It wasn't their fault they were dumped here. Then the failed redevelopement, so this city to overcome alot and they did. So your feeling abot what's going on can't ever compare to what we went through. The person who designed the citys plan has done many many plans. Go to City Place in WPB Florida they took a depressed part of that town and made it into something special. You may have read alot and seen lots of pitures but you really had to live it.
http://www.cityplace.com/AboutCityPlace.html the riots did make it over to the east side...all the buildings > where the train station is were burned... > I'm using Main St. to divide east from west. My main point (mission?) is to > combat the common notion that the rioting was citywide and "led to the town > going down the tubes because people were afraid of living there." > > > I was living at 213 Lake Ave (over Corrubia's Restaurant) at the time: I do > remember most of the businesses on Cookman boarding up their windows but > don't recall any actual destruction occurring east of Main St. > > My secondary point is that Asbury Park had already been in decline as a > tourist destination for several years before 1970. Although the "circuit" and > the rock music clubs were still popular with young people, the business > district was steadally falling victim to the mall exodus; moreover, because of > unimaginative management, the boardwalk itself was not considered as cool, hip or > cutting-edge (or "groovey" lol) an attraction for entertainment or hanging > out as were other seaside towns. > > Again from the Salon article: "By the 1960s, ... even the city's tourism > had dropped off, > leaving Asbury Park a nostalgia trip of a beach town, with calliopes, > fortune- > tellers and carousels lining its beat-up boardwalk." > > The phrase "nostalgia trip" back then had none of the positive connotation > that "quaint seaside resort" might have today. > > Relevance for today? I hope Asbury's renaissance doesn't fall victim again > to unimaginative and uncreative planners who always seem to "just miss" what > the trends are indicating.... > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
