WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOTELS IN WILDWOOD?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Come Sail with The Philly Captain as he explores the streets of Wildwood New Jersey. The Captain shows you some of the hotels and restaurants. #wildwood #tour #newjersey
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Summer jobs at the Shore, once filled by locals. now they have to import the workers. so confusing.
Bobby Rydell passed last year. And he was a Philly native may he rest in power.❤️❤️❤️
thanks for the video. I haven’t been to wildwood in years. loved it as a teenager. I remember Draculas castle. That was the best!!
Thanks, former Philly guy. Wildwood Crest was our family summer vacation spot. Since you asked: A hotel is usually a large, enclosed building with hundreds of rooms across multiple floors, while a motel has one or two floors with outdoor room entrances
Examples of hotels in Wildwood would be the Bolero and Montego Bay in North Wildwood on the boardwalk. Adventurer Motor Inn at the south end of the boardwalk where the Crest begins has interior corridors as well. We stayed at Adventurer Inn in June 1996 and Montego Bay July 6-9, 2011. We stayed at Sea Bird in Aug 1982 and Tide Winds in Aug 1983. Royal Court in Aug 1995 and Riviera in June 1998.
Dracula's Castle was the best thing ever. Really miss it. This is a great and fun video!
I was sick to my stomach when I saw on a now defunct Wildwood boardwalk fan site around Jan 16 or 17, 2002 that it burned down on Jan 16, 2002. I went through it Aug 1995, June 1996 and June 1998 and the Dungeon boat ride June 1996 and June 1998. I was aware of it somewhat in Aug 1982 and Aug 1983 but we didn't go near it. I miss Hunt's Pier as well which was Dinosaur Beach 1996-1998. The track from the Golden Nugget is at Knoebel's in their Black Diamond ride which is like a reborn Nugget but with a haunted coal mine theme. Over 100 motels and a few restaurants were razed for condos 2002 and up. But, there are a bunch of surviving motels especially along the beach in the Crest and some in North Wildwood.
Only guy I know that can make a great video when everything is closed! 😂
#allthewayclub
Wildwood is my favorite place to go!!!!
A Hotel is a building with multiple rooms, corridors to access them and it is typically multiple levels. A Motel has 1-2 floors with rooms that are accessible through outdoor walkways near the parking lot.
Actually in the Wildwoods, their working definition is a motel like the Crusader has outside entrance to rooms. Hotels like the Adventurer has inside entrance to rooms.
Bobby Rydell. A few years before he died the Wildwood VFW gave him a award. They had a small concert at Fox Park. I was lucky to attend. His family had a house on Montgomery Blvd.
lOVED THE VIDEO! Next time bring Cheryl. AL& P's is open for great steaks hoagies and fries On New Jersey Ave
Yes I stayed at the Crusader. Drank a lot don’t remember a lot. Lol😂
I heard the PA accent and mediately. When you think about Martin Luther King and the motel, remember something. These places were not always the Havens for junkies and hookers they have become. This is where families stayed originally, traveling salesman and other businessman, when the car became popular, people stayed at motels and motor inns. We didn’t have 20 story Sheratons and 40 story Marriotts. All we had were motels and everyone stayed there.
It’s weird middle-class America state. You did have some bigger hotels, but they were confined usually two resorts are big cities. Those dives up and down the route one Corredor with normal stopping points on people traveling cross-country or cross state.
Used to spend Memorial Day weekends down in Wildwood Crest and drive down to Wildwood for the clubs. I remember the flyers at gas stations of the women that used to disappear down there. Not a place to walk around drunk at night, too many weirdos from Philly. The Stardust was one of the few clubs that had underage nights. Wildwood and the Crest are cemeteries in the off-season.
5:20 love the Mustang protecting his car by taking two spots when the place is deserted lol
We always stayed in the satellite motel in the 70's which is long gone now. It was on the opposite side of the parklane motel which just closed itself a few years ago. Great memories! The ocean front pan American use to have a restaurant in the front for breakfast and lunch which is no longer there but the motel is.
The Park Lane is still there.
@@anthonycaniano9892 it said it closed last year. Did it reopen this year?
Maybe they were closed for the season? I stay at the Waikiki ago just a short distance away from it and it was open last year and just a month when I was on vacation. By the way it has an average Google rating of 4.6.@@davidhibbs6989
El Rey means The King
Hello Cappy ,
Great long video of the "wildwoods " yeah in the 50's Bobby Rydell had a chart stopper for sure! Bigwigs loved wildwood and still come down there to this day!! Even Disney loved it but wanted better I think he had taken things to Disney world and land for that matter from the wildwoods! Keep going there and maybe the other beach that is voted the best beach in NJ for 2024.(Cape May) My buddy past in 08 from ALS (Eric) his family spread his ashes on the jeddys at Carneys bar..( across from the beach)❤. Only the Good die young !! As Billy Joel song it..😊 you captured not only a place to video that speaks mounds but to all that can't get there anymore. 😢 weather by not having the funds or just old age or that only can see by a computer, tablet or phone 😊 you will get alot more subscribers And views for sure. Take care and thank you for making it possible for the many people that can't go but enjoy this and many other places you visit. God bless !!
Motel = Motor + Hotel
Bobby Darin sang splash splash and died in 1973
Rydell was a Philly boy and died in 2022
@15:30 I've partied many times in the Royal Canadian and Premier motels during the car show and Irish weekends. That intersection takes me back. It's weird seeing all the old 50's Doowoop motels gone and condos up in their place.
Went to wildwood almost every summer from 86 to 2005. The best part was the quirky motels. I'm from Baltimore but we always preferred wildwood over ocean city Maryland. The boardwalk is way better and more rides
Yo Cuz !
My 3 favorite weekends in Wildwood...
Irish weekend
Polish weekend
50's weekend..
The dunk machine clown was the best ! These candy asses today could never handle him.
Enjoyed video. Maybe you could include the DooWap Motels of Wildwood in a future video. Thanks
Hey i really like ur channel i lived at the oxford circle, & went to St Martins Catholic School. You are so knowledgeable of the philly history! Kerp up.the awesome channel. I cant afford a subscribe but i do follow!🙂
Lol. El Ray means The Ray 😂
That tour was enjoyable.
You’re right about those EZ passes abt to track and ticket us.
I spent my childhood summers in N. Wildwood. We still have our condo. It’s actually up for sale. I think my sis just put it on the market.
Thanks for sharing, good video. I first went to Wildwood NJ back in 1985. I use to work at couple places down there
back in the day. I lived down there too during the same year. I later use go vaca down there every year from 1990 thru 2001. I am hoping to make it back down there again soon, even if it's just for a night.
I also want to tell you i loved the wildwood vids! Brought back a whole bunch of great memories. Went there every year for vacay! Thx
A hotel is when you enter the room from inside of the building, a motel is when you enter the room from outside the building.
Makes sense
Motel is a contraction of motor hotel. Became popular when cars became popular. People could drive to the motel, park their car relatively close to their room, and not have to walk through the lobby to get to their room. It was more convenient for families.
I know when my parents did their vacation journey from Cape Cod to Atlantic City and Wildwoods they said that you could go to a motel and ask for a room and they give it to you.
I go to the nassau every year and walk that same wood bridge. unreal seeing it online. since i was 12, im 31 now i bring my wife haha
My family owns a vacation house in wildwood and I during the off season I go down there on weekends.
The Moreys also own some of the hotels you’ve shown. Port Royal Pan America Starlux Blue Palms and a few others.
That was a really interesting and fun video. Thanks.
You will not be able to park anywhere in a couple of months. The lack of parking "Down the Shore" is stunning in the summertime. Unless you own a house with a driveway, it is rough parking in the summer.
Dr King stayed in the Lorraine Motel in Memphis because Black people weren’t allowed to stay in the nicer Hotels due to segregation.
Yes at that time the Lorraine motel was black owned
Love this. I grew up down the street from The Yankee Clipper and the Crusader on Cardinal road.💚🙏✌️🤟🎶🎶🎶
Sometimes the ones you think are a miss are some of your best … nice job Jon! ✌️
Learned some interesting stuff. They said development of the area as a resort town really picked up when the parkway was completed in 1955.
A great invention the Garden State Parkway but nothing like New Jersey Turnpike
One has a kitchenette one doesnt
I lived there for 4 years just moved from there in September to South Carolina man lol why didn’t you eat at wawa they got like 3 of them . Also I would like to say I love your channel I probably seen you at the Phillies games more than a handful of times. Your thing about the priest is funny so far from the truth though sad to say. Priests go on vacation like any of us they don’t have to go into a box or anything like that for confession and penance for confession isnt as simple as three Hail Marys .I know you’re probably simply making a joke but Catholicism is it as simple as that was a lot of people misunderstand it. Anyway go Phillies
Love the Fleur de Lis! ❤
Always, ALWAYS vacationed this spot with the family back then, and especially was there more times for the Firemen's Convention (tons of family members in the fire department then), but anyway, hadn't been there in like 20 years now. Would really hate to see what's become of the area, but wouldn't mind trying to re-hatch the nostalgic past and still enjoy it.
Always enjoy staying in the Crest
Sea Shell or Pink Shell Motel on Rio Grande in early 1970s. No swimming pool.
Offshore in mid-1970s
Mark I Hotel in the Crest in the mid and late 1970s. Had a white and sea green lettered tee shirt.
Relatives stayed at Yankee Clipper, Jolly Roger, and Waikiki.
We always stayed at the Ranch House motel in Wildwood every summer. Next-door on one side was a miniature golf course and on the other side was a restaurant I believe that was called the Blue Dolphin.
The difference is that the entrance to each motel room is on the outside of the building. In a hotel the entrance to the room is inside the building!
Hey PHILLY CAPTAIN, I enjoyed your Part 2 Wildwood, NJ video and all the great sites along the way...Very exciting and great weather for you that day..OK later on & TOODLES..
Wow, stayed at the Yankee Clipper in 1967. Remember being in the field with my grandfather flying a kite we bought on the boardwalk. We named it Crusader because it was the same colors as the hotel. Didn't know those places were still there. They look the same as I remember too. Amazing.
Great scoot. You captured the Jersey shore perfectly
Enjoy the video. I lived down there for 10 years and Wildwood loved it and now I’m in Arizona but I love the broad walk in the food was good seeing taking a trip with UNITEDHLTHCARE
The last time my family went to Wildwood NJ was in 2002. We use to stay at The Birds Of Paradise in North Wildwood.
A hotel you have to go into the building and then go in an elevator and find your room inside that's a hotel. A motel you drive your car rate to your front door get out of your vehicle and your door is right outside your vehicle.
Hotels rooms face in , Motels rooms face out
We used to stay at the Sea Rose motel in North Wildwood and a place called the Suitcase. Lol. The Wildwoods must have widest beaches anywhere. Watch the tram car please!!!
I love these older retro motels, I hope they never go away. Modern multistory hotels and condos are all bland cookie cutter buildings with no character.
Shoulda packed a baloney hoagie for your ride ! Enjoyed your video very much, as child in 60s wildwood was heaven. Stayed at Kelley's on 16th street, great times. Stayed at Doo Wop in 90s in crest. Much has changed and new generations making memories.
Absolutely incredible how dead it is. Kinda depressing. On the other hand 3 months later I will be cursing and swearing trying to find a parking spot 8 blocks from the beach. Oh, and why does Morey own every damn pier? And where are all the spinning wheel games like Lou's gift wheel? I can play the damn claw games at Walmart!!!!! I want spinning wheel games! Win some cigarettes on the cigarette wheel. Seems they gotta just eff everything up that was actually fun. Wa-wa-watch the damn car please watch the damn car please. Well, all complaints aside, I'll be headed back home in June, gotta hit Wildwood and the boardwalk. Get me some Lauras fudge and cheap hotdogs.
I was very young but I remember a 24th street motel . Loved Wildwood NJ
Great time Captain - thanks for sharing!!!
the ladies room at the Stardust was the place to be. if you couldn't get lucky there just give up on life.
Thank you for this! You brought back so many memories for me! You are so entertaining too!
I love this video! You doing amazing videos. So many memories from Wildwood. Greetings from Slovakia 🇸🇰
Greetings from Canada
Atleast they're saving some of the classic Motells in Wildwood instead of demolishing them like in Myrtle Beach.
I remember carrying my sister piggyback around the beach in our swimsuits. It was fun!
The manure smell was coming from the Day's Inn hotel! We checked it out once and it was awful.
The difference between a hotel and a motel is a motel is the combined version of motor hotels back in the late 40’s and early 50’s
Stardust first bar I got into under age in 80s was awesome who let the dogs out was rocking
Family owned a bungalow in West Wildwood during 50s and 60s. Best time ever for us. Later I got married and would bring my wife and 2 boys to Wildwood Crest for vacations during the 80s. Stayed at the Lotus... nice rooms/suites and very friendly owners. Now reside year round in central Florida (bwtn Orlando and Tampa). Tampa is a fabulous city by the bay with a river walk, major sports teams and loads of fun things to do on land and water. Never returning north (been here over 10 years). Formerly from Hershey, Lancaster and originally "filthydelphia"
Matador was my favorite back in the 80s. Ever summer for a week in August. Then found it cheaper to rent a house in sea isle city for 2 weeks. Lol good old days!!
Shobees. Guess how they got that name 😊. Answer tomorrow morning
Today you’re taking a life chance sleeping in one of those bed bug havens. Nice clip, very amusing.
My best places wildwood crest and seaside heights N.J. 👍
Thanks CAPTAIN! Haven't been there in years they tore down Luray my favorite hotel and built condos.
Thanks for the cool video! I enjoyed your ride 😊
The difference between Motels and Hotels, so I have been told, is that a Motel's room doors face outward and Hotels face inward. Also Hotels typically provided more services. Motels were focused on motorists and other transient guests whle Hotels were intended for longer staying travellers.
Motel = MOtor hoTEL. Drive up to your room (or at least close).
You just passed the Starlux. Classic place
I always stay at crusaders I’m staying there next Friday
You didn't see the Ocean Sands Motel?🤔🤔🤔
I think motel y can use at hour rate hotel thy Don't
I have stayed at the Starlight, the Qubec and the Quarterdeck
There used to be one called the fountain
This looks like an abandoned ghost town. I find it difficult to imagine what could possible by the draw that would bring in enough people, long term, to fill this many hotels. Since there does not seem to be anything else here, what do the visitors do? Go to the beach? every day for days? Sounds utterly boring to me.
Google Wildwood New Jersey lots to do
I use to Go there a lot when I was in my 30s
Looks like a North Korean ghost town.
Kept me entertained while working. Thanks.
When did you do this video of Wildwood
Bobby Rydell Wildwood days
Motels have bed bugs hotels don't have bed bugs
The castle also had lazer tag
Hotels have food. Motels do not.
I enjoyed this
love the music clip that's a real jem
Show Rio grand ave
Great video Cap!
I like the visit.❤
totally boring over priced ghost town. Where the people???
I filmed this in early spring the people show up in the summertime
Curly fries😊
Diamond Beach?
Bozo was the shit. Good times
Motels are better