Seaside Heights Boardwalk NJ "The Ideal Place" 1970's Promo Film in HD
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- This 14 minute promotional film of Seaside Heights and Seaside Park was produced in the 1970's using 16 mm motion picture film. Titled: "The Ideal Place for Pleasure and Sunshine" Originally aired in Quebec, Canada in 1977. The original version was narrated by Gaetan Montreuil in French and this version is narrated in English by Dom Alagia.
This is a great time capsule of Seaside Heights in the 1970's in Hi Definition. See Beautiful Ocean County, the Freeholders of Ocean County, and system parks with playgrounds and picnic facilities. Includes aerial views, surfing, Casino Pier, Funtown Pier, Parrot Club, Aztec Motel, bikini babes, the sky ride, Casino Pool, lifeguards, Ferris wheels, kite flying, surf fishing, crabbing, seining, and more. The original Jersey Shore.
See Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, Robert Miller Airpark, magnificent beaches along the coast, Seaside Heights and the Barnegat Bay.
Plus water skiing, sail boats, power boats, fishing boats and Miss Seaside Boat, plus tennis courts, miniature golf courses, Seaside playgrounds and the largest amusement center on the east coast.
Includes local restaurants, Fascination, biking, Funtown train, Jet Star, Swiss Bob, Zipper, Utopia 2000, Parades on the Boulevard, floats and more!
Miss Seaside Heights pageant, Tiny Tim, Lucky Leo's, rock group concerts, TV personality appearances and the beautiful baby parade on the boardwalk - Mardi Gras along the boardwalk and on the streets of Seaside Heights - Many rides, games of chance, and spectacular fireworks. Enjoy!
Converted to digital format by Peter J. Smith and Joe Verderosa.
Available to purchase on Ebay.
1971. Man, do I wish I could go back there. I'd just graduated high school in Northern NJ. I had a car, a little job, not much money but boy did I have fun! My first summer of total freedom!
Seaside was at it's peak in the 70s. I still go today but it lost a lot of it's feel after hurricane sandy and the fire.
thanx for sharing, was at Seaside back in the 70's, wish I could go back
@@vincenzojackson2954 i'll just wait till next time I go to Seaside Heights and look for her.
All the teens are now 60 plus like me
Try 70
Awesome video. Thanks for some great memories. If I could go back to a certain time and stay there, it would be the 70's. Right now, it's a horrible existence.
yes it is. Things were much more peaceful and happy back then,.
@@ronfowlermusic No minorities. No fat people either.
Agreed
My God do I remember those Days!! I really miss my Dad man he was so young and cool!! It was always me and him I had No siblings lost my mom when I was 11 months old! My Father would of been 32 around this time 1970! I swear I thought the man Was a walking God!! So much Fun!!
Vincent Adams God Bless him, he sounded like a great parent to be raised by!
@@thecoochmon112 So strange this comment you sent me was today!! October is not an easy month for me I been thinking of my Dad so much the past week his Birthday the 9th he would of been 82!! 13 years ago today I brought him home from Hospital he knew I was bringing him home to die as he said while we drove home!! So frail at just 69 was this Cool Ironworker 5’8” and Strong as an Ox he had the same build as if you remember Sammy the bull Gravano a good friend from old days!! Anyway I couldn’t believe what he became as I said So frail for the next 13 days I would see firsthand up close each day as the CANCER spread insanely and rapidly alone with a little Boston Terrier BUCK we would comfort him as best as we could and on the early morning of November 2, he was gone just like that! A life of a FATHER A FRIEND A CO-WORKER AND UNION BROTHER gone!! I think of him every time as this time of year rolls by! I miss him and I can’t tell you the memories I have!! Good God how did time pass so fast!! Thank You for this reminder who ever you may be I’m going too watch this video again for the memories and a little cheering up!! Thank You I don’t know who you are! But your comment came at a beautiful time!! So strange is life!! God Bless and Be with you!!
What fabulous comment by yourself it was such magical time it was being there makes Emotional
I grew up in Scotch Plains and this was my favorite place since I was six, I am 65 now and I rave about SH. I am going back to show my adult children where I hung out ,
Carol, you will barely recognize the boardwalk, or what's left of it. Took a stroll on there a few months back and I couldn't hold back the tears. Thank goodness for the mask,or I would have been incredibly embarrassed . I can't believe the change and the proposed change that is coming. Awful.
@@gregggoss2210 I guess I won't be going there. I'll have to be satisfied with memories.
@@gregggoss2210 Gregg is correct.
@@carolvedder3555 Gregg is correct. Here I’m writing from 5 mins away from scotch plains ( still a good neighborhood) that seaside heights has become an unwelcoming place. The local scene is just not there- just awkward people from who knows where. Wildwood and cape may is better. Cape may still is old school way. Let’s keep it down before it changes as well.
@@basitk12 Wildwood seems to be okay in the summertime, but in the off-season it is super suspect as well
Seems a lot more fun back in the 70s some things are the same but some things look a lot more fun like the rides , and way more activities and stuff like a pageant show and talent show. It would be nice to have stuff like that for kids and for the town.
Yeah and none of SNOOKIE OR MICKY Z AND PAULIE D. and that whole GOOFY JERSEY SHORE CAST around those little brat WANNABE’s NO CLASS OR STYLE in Italian something they wouldn’t understand that group of GARBAGE would of been known as CORNUDOS or GUFFONES and BUTONAS!! They did nothing but influence and create a generation of Scumbags of what you see today down n there!! I know if my father and his crew of Men and these deranged derelict kids came through in a time machine they all would of right hand Sunburn!! Sad and as I said the influence that GARBAGE SHOW HAD ON A GENERATION!! Most of them born in the late 80’s wouldn’t even get a hello from guys and girls of my Generation! Just real low class and gave a nice resort a bad name!
@@vincentadams9569 Hi. With all due respect to the fans, I agree with you. Once I heard that show was filming in Seaside, I knew I’d likely never go there again. I’m glad that it’s still doing its best to thrive, but sad that everything it once was seems to be gone. I love these videos, though, for all of the nostalgia of a better time. Wishing you & everyone well & all the best!
@@vincentadams9569 , agreed.........worst show showing NJ....... as I travel around our country and sign in a motel the desk people ask n look at me............be well.
A walk down memory lane! 💖 Thank you for posting this blast from the past! My youth, in your video...groovy! 💖✌😊
Still miss the Freedman's Carousel that was auctioned off in 1988. It had such beautiful horses that were covered in jewels.
Is that the one with the original horses or something. In the arcade. Point library has a stained glass of it
This is my area. I lived in ocean county my whole life. I'm 61 now and I worked at the naval air warfare center and I'm retired from there. Now it has become like a city and I want to get out of the area.
It looks so much better back then.
It was. Back when there was so much more freedom, less laws, less political correctness and no one was offended. Now we deal with stupid ridiculous facemasks and stupid social distancing BS.
Hi, in my opinion it indeed was much better back then. I’m sure it’s still got lots to offer now, though not the same as it was.
It was............. NJ is not what it once was with our state government......be well.
Those of us who lived through that time and are still living now know it was a better life back then. Not just because we were young, but everyone wasn't so busy, in a rush and in everyone else's business. Slow down, enjoy, live, love laugh. Also......Did you also notice???? Where are all of the fat and out of shape people in this video? Only memories to cherish, a time never to return.
Thank you for the great words
Omg... America WAS so great 😪😪
Sad to think that all the hotties are now 80yo, for the olders, all dead already...
Enjoy life now and make America great again...
This was the sanitised version, I'm sure. The real point of Seaside Heights was all the drinking, and cheap motels you could crash at. I don't ever remember actually going to Seaside Heights, but I vividly remember waking up there. It's kind of like Boston, in that regard.
It was always like that? I know now it’s kind of a dump. I used to go there all the time when I turned 21 and it was a lot of trashy, rowdy people but I thought it used to be a lot better years ago…like before 2000
@@brianb7423 I got my license and 1st car in 1986 so thereabouts would have been the timeframe I remember. It was at that tender age that I noticed that it's best to avoid drinking when the sun is out, especially when at the shore. In 86 I was living in Elmwood Park NJ and thought the shore was too far so me and my friends scouted out as many of the shore points that were closer and discovered it's all industrial like Elizabeth, Kearny, Bayonne, all those places, so we gave up and just went swimming in the Passaic River on the Garfield side by Kiggi Island. Yes. We actually did, and lived to tell about it.
Believe me when I say this. I went to Seaside back in the late 60s and it was everything that this video pointed out. I believe it started getting roudier in the late 70s when I visited again. I was very dissapointed to see the change for the worse. But in the late 60s, in my opinion there was no better place to be.
@@louisd95714 The 60s were the best time to be alive, from what I hear. I was born in 68 so some of that era still lives in my soul. That was also the heyday of the Jersey shore, but since the 60s-70s it's been on a downward slope and not just Seaside but Asbury Park, Atlantic City, and Wildwood are pretty trashy these days. The only place that's still nice (last time I checked) is Wildwood Crest.
Had my first slow gin fizz drink on my 21st birthday at Seaside Hghts.
Lots of ladies wearing awesome bikini bathing suits in this 1973 16 mm promotional film!!
ME!!!! @ 10:09 pulling the "We dream of Genie" float.
I still remember the rollercoaster by the pier and walking around one year with 38 special" Hold On Loosely" Blasting through the PA system.great times for sure.
I actually know one of the young ladies in this video. How cool to see her then and to know her now. WOW!
9:03: Tiny Tim!
Absolutely love and loved seaside heights from seeing the ferris wheel over the bridge to tell you,that you have arrived in the "HOME OF SUN AND FUN" stayed at the surfside motel right on the boardwalk next to Luckey Leos. Anyone remember the beach warnings( stay out,stay??)
Loved staying at Surfside! Anything right across from the boardwalk and all the activities was perfect for me! ; )
Notice the people that were there
Yea it was a beautiful safe place👍
@@kyle6512 , Was..........
Man' I dig that GROOOOOOVY beat!!!!!!!!!! 😃😎😁🙂 I thought I saw Marcia Brady!!!!!
Jaws vibes 🤣❤️
LOL That is EXACTLY what I was thinking too! Reminded me too much of Jaws!
Great
Brings back fond memories of my youth, and an incident when my first born was just 1 year old I was trying to win a stuffed animal for her , and thought my wife was watching her in the stroller. My wife wanted to encourage me to win, and stepped away from the stroller. This was still a time you thought you could trust people. My wife turned around to check on our daughter, and saw a man wheeling the stroller away. He was pushing it casually, like it was his child. My wife panicked, and I went chasing the guy up the boardwalk after he let go of the stroller. He must have ducked into an alley, because I couldn't find him in that crowd. We don't know what we would have done, or what would become of our daughter, had a few seconds more gone by. Happily, she just turned 50 years old, and we still think about what could have been, with our precious daughter on a day of fun.
I hope you called the Police and gave a description.
Somethings missing...oh that's right there are no fun sucking cell phones. People looked a little classier even during the 70's sexual revolution. I was 6-15 during the 70's and hung out almost every summer at Seaside while staying at my buddies place off the water they owned. They had money, I was the poor lad who was best friends with their only son :) . Man, I wish t was the 70's again! Thanks for the memories as I have subscribed to your channel .
Ah the big spinning wheels, I remember them filled with Cabbage Patch Kids!
thanks for the memories love it use to come every summer after school got out to my grandmoms house we had a ball my sister cousins,
🤭that pizza guy at the end though.. that was great!!🤣
Back in the day when the guy running the Matterhorn would say I yi yi yi it’s the Matterhorn get your tickets! We were thrown off the ride for making fun of him! Lol
Thank you!
Girls with no tattoos, lip or eye rings or strange hairdo's ....hmmmm not bad I like it.
Loved it back then, It is now essentially as attractive and corrupt as Beirut.
pizza was made by Italians back then
Narrated by Bernie Sanders! LOL - great place back then.
AWESOME Video!! thanks for posting it!
awesome!
would love to also see one like this from the 80s if one exists anywhere
It would be full of bon jovi lookalikes and everyone with the wild perms. Trust. I was there. The rock music stand to win tapes or show tickets, the himalayan ride. I was 6 but I knew what I saw
so cool thx was class of 86
Proud to be from TR!
My fun was in the 90s there. Great times
Totally hip music
L🤣L Tiny Tim 9:02
It was eerie seeing the Jet Star,the ride that was shown to be in the ocean after Sandy.Of course,most of us living in NJ couldn't see it as it happened-unless you lived in the ghetto as their power was restored before midnight on the 31st when the EBT cards had to be refilled.The rest of us were left powerless for days afterward-regardless of your medical situation.Those politicians don't fear a riot emanating from you.
First of all it was a different roller coaster in the ocean and seriously what the hell are you talking about Tom?
@@greenrosetv All power lines in my town were intact,yet the PTB decided that Newark had to be restored by the stroke of midnight on the 31st so the EBT'ers could fill their carts at Wal-Mart.I needed refrigeration to keep my special diet from going bad.I wound up in the hospital from malnutrition because of the politicians' refusal to control rioters.
Those were the days! Burn and peel!