I totally agree with your post. Even those who still live here,
can't afford to. Sad, isn't it? The only people who are excited,
are those with a vested interest, have power and money! Like
everything else, money talks! You know the rest. Very fine post,
indeed.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dear Friends of Asbury:
>
> As far as the Casino goes, it's probably one of the last
recognizable
> Landmarks left in Asbury Park, and well worth saving. This past
summer I have visited
> Asbury quite a few times, I went to the car show and even walked
the Board
> Walk for the first time since 1973. Its the first time I actually
felt safe to
> do so (more about that later). After reading 4th of July Asbury
Park I drove
> down Springwood a part of Town I have never been before I was
amazed that even
> after all these years there were still Vacant Lots from when the
riots had
> taken Place.
>
> Don't get me wrong I'm in no way putting Asbury Park down, very
much the
> opposite. I'm 45 years old, white grew up and continue to Live in
Hoboken. I have
> many found memories of Asbury Park my family would rent a house in
Ocean Grove
> (1966 to 1973) we would walk through the Casino on our way to the
Board Walk,
> the Palace, the Carousel's. Just hearing that the walk way was open
again,
> and you could walk over from OG actually brought the Idea of hope
for Asbury to
> mind. I have visited Asbury Park on and off since about 1980 my
Mother and I
> brought my God Son down to go on the Rides (the last of the kids in
the Family
> to do so). The first thing I noticed the Boat rides were gone from
Wesley
> Lake. A few years after that the rides were going, I'll never
forget pulling up in
> front the Palace seeing it boarded up, the other Carousel gone from
the
> Casino, a few years after that it was crumbling gated the failed
Condo Complex
> gated crumbling. I as said before I grew up in Hoboken this was a
rough Town like
> the Lower east side when I was Kid, and I wasn't getting out on my
car.
>
> Each time I visited the Town got a little worse, even just 2 or 3
Years ago I
> went to Sandy Hook drove through Deal Allenhurst,they were
Beautiful, when
> you swung around the Lake it was like Driving into Beirut I
couldn't believe On
> a Beautiful Summer Day the only Person walking in Town was a Hooker
it was
> Surreal like the Twilight Zone, we went over to Ocean Grove its was
booming the
> Yuppies and New Yorkers had bought up the Town, (even tough I am
not a fan of
> yuppies as they have bought up Hoboken as well), anything was
better then what
> we came through.
>
> The thing I'm trying to get at is Asbury Park needs to build on
it's History,
> its Music History. What I see going on is the Powers that be are
trying to
> erase everything that Asbury once was even where the Palace once
was they have
> realigned the streets to eradicate any trace it was there. While
Eminent Domain
> may have it's place I believe the Supreme Court made a Supreme
Injustice in
> allowing Private Property to be taken for Private use. Coming from
a Condo Town
> it has not worked here in Hoboken and it wont work in Asbury either
it just
> doesn't generate enough Taxes (I can't even afford to Live in the
Town I grew
> up in). What will probably happen is you will get a Private Gated
Community
> isolated from the rest of Town with Private Beaches, Just like Long
Branch, we
> started going to the Beach at Long Branch a few Years ago, you
could Park
> anywhere, while the Town wasn't much to brag about it was clean
uncrowded ethnically
> diverse, now yuppie vile.
>
> I almost cried when I heard what had happened to the two Beautiful
Carousel's
> that once spun within a few hundred feet of each other, now the
People who
> snapped up the Carousel Horses will probably snap up all the
property in Asbury
> Park and slowly force the People who have Lived and Visited for
Years out, I
> hope before it;s all set in stone the Powers that be realize before
it's to
> Late and re-evaluate the course they have laid out for Asbury, like
the
> Carousel's once there gone there gone for good.
>
> Thank you
> A fan of Asbury Park
> Always
>
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