On Oct 16, 2006, at 8:53 PM, justifiedright wrote:
<x-tad-bigger>--- In </x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com</x-tad-bigger><x-tad-bigger>, Lightgrw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:</x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> > The town desperately wants to hold on to its tourist past. </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> No Gary, it doesn't. It desperately wants to be a great residential </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> community.</x-tad-bigger>
Then why do they stick the past on nearly every piece of marketing for the town? Sounds like they either want to remember the past as something worth remembering or use the past to trick people into believing that they will be a hybrid of residential and tourism. If they solely wanted residential than why invoke images of the past on all of their marketing?
<x-tad-bigger> I've said repeatedly you have to look at the rest of the County to </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> see that tourism in Monmouth, particulary the nightclub scene, is </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> long gone. </x-tad-bigger>
That statement is always thrown out by the people who want Asbury to simply give up any ideas about tourism. I don't buy it. I think Asbury Park could VERY EASILY utilize elements from its boardwalk and musical past to have a thriving tourism trade. One of the reasons the rest of Monmouth County hasn't is that the vast majority of tourism and history (especially musically) WAS IN ASBURY PARK.
I remember joking once with Monmouth County Tourism people about growing up here and never imaging that the ONE boardwalk to remain and thrive would be Keansburg.
Why is it that tourism is ok for Ocean County but not Monmouth County? Why has Monmouth County changed in your mind but Ocean hasn't?
<x-tad-bigger> Belmar is the best example. 20 years ago there was a ton of </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> nightclubs. Now there is one.</x-tad-bigger>
Well, there actually are several - especially if you count Lake Como.
<x-tad-bigger> Now that I'm 43 and not 23, I must admit I don't judge towns by how </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> many nightclubs they have anymore. Maybe after my kids are grown I </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> will again. :-)</x-tad-bigger>
I'm not saying you should judge a town by the clubs. I'm saying that Asbury Park is known throughout the WORLD for its entertainment -- something very few places can attest to. Yet, the town treats it as if there is no heritage... no reason to keep it going.
<x-tad-bigger> I don't think I agree with you that this Council harbors any ill </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> will toward The Saint. They are a comparatively young group up </x-tad-bigger>
<x-tad-bigger> there. I think the Saint will be fine.</x-tad-bigger>
Well I've been there on more than one occasion when it seemed like someone purposely sent the fire code inspections (on a busy Saturday night) as a set up. I've also heard plenty of rumors that the building is in their sights. I don't believe it's safe at all.
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