Yeah, but unless you are a history buff, or a local, how many people would
actually take
the time to visit just for the Morro Castle?
The Hindenburgh disaster happened at Lakehurst, and people rarely visit the
memorial
there. I'm not sure if the airbase has been closed to the public since 9/11,
but before that,
when it was open, I made a visit once. The person at the visitors center said
that maybe a
few 100 people visit every year, with less as the years go by.
If I had my say, I'd steer our boardwalk area to be focused on music and
entertainment.
Those are proven attractions, and if the price is right, they are usually
recession proof.
Austin TX thrives because of it's music and entertainment scene.
Memphis has Beele street.
Nashville is all about music tourism.
NYC packs people into their theaters and concert halls, and below that there's
a myriad of
places that carry on the tradition of CBGBs etc.
AP once had that kind of draw, but the venues are disappearing, and the
boardwalk has
been made into a high end retail location that I predict will fail big time
this winter.
If AP had a rock and roll museum that highlighted Bruce and the others who are
tied to our
city, people would come from all over the US, Europe and the world to check it
out.
But, my thoughts on this are a complete waste, because it's just not going to
happen,
because our city doesn't recognize what it let slip thru it's fingers.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Jack Pitzer" <hinge98@> wrote:
> >
> > Isn't the simplest, and most obvious attraction to AP it's music
> scene?
> >
> Why just have ONE (type) attraction to bring people in?
>
> More people in town for MORE reasons, year round = more people
> spending more money.
>
> Disaster Tourism.
>
> Ever go to universal and go on the earthquake ride (think they
> changed the name)
>
> There's a hundred angles you can go with this. Start simple. Some
> memorial and few notes about the mystery of the Morro and the
> scandals that followed it.
>
> Put it this way. If the Titanic sunk off the coast of AP, there
> probably would of been no movie of it or no memorial.
>
> ....
> In the mid-1980s, HBO television aired a dramatization of the fire
> in their Catastrophe series, called "The Last Voyage of the Morro
> Castle." In 2002, the A&E television network made a documentary
> about the incident. .....
> ---------------------------------------
> Despite the fascinating tragedy and mystery of the Morro Castle
> Disaster, no film for theatrical distribution nor even a television
> movie was made of the story. However there have been references to
> it. In the 1938 film Boy Meets Girl, James Cagney (in dictating a
> letter to Pat O'Brien regarding what a third person is supposed to be
> saying to his missing wife) says, "I did not go down on the "Morro
> Castle"!" And at the conclusion of the 1935 Spencer Tracy film
> Dante's Inferno a gambling cruise ship (resembling the Morro Castle)
> is completely ablaze. The 1944 movie Minstral Man also features the
> fire and sinking of the Morro Castle.
>
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