President Obama and New Jersey governor Chris Christie visited the Jersey shore on Tuesday, as Christie provided a tour of the recovery process following hurricane Sandy and won the president a stuffed teddy bear in a game on the boardwalk.
“The Jersey shore is back and it is open for business,” Obama said in a speech at Asbury Park, which was devastated by the storm. His visit coincided with the launch of a campaign to encourage visitors to the state and follows recent appearances on the Jersey shore from a wide range of VIPs from Prince Harry to Snooki.
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I’ve been to Asbury Park. It was a slum before the storm.
So true.
Most of the shore spots really are dives. In a few places they do care about tradition and have class, I would say that Cape May at the southern tip falls into this category.
Nowadays Atlantic City has the most money and consequently the most to gain by maintaining itself and for the most part is adequately presentable. In the years before Casinos were allowed it had pretty much become horrific though, a run-down former image of its glory days in the 1920’s-1950’s. Ocean City and Wildwood were much better destinations.
All the northern towns, especially Asbury Park and Seaside Heights have always been dives. The piers and boardwalks run-down, with hardly a reason in the world to go there except for the occasional concert, certainly not a place to book a week for a beach vacation.
See this post from last November where I linked the Google map satellite images comparing the pier construction at Atlantic City vs. Seaside Heights. The pictures still show the vast difference, wooden crap versus solid construction.
What that hurricane did was give them a chunk of money to upgrade their deteriorating equipment. The stories I am seeing is “it cost $500,000” to replace this and that. So what is going on is business as usual at the shore where unions are gouging the merchants into an astronomical cost of living, they will now pass that off to the stupid tourists and life will go on.
The interesting thing about Seaside Heights is that without the publicity from that Jersey Shore TV show probably no-one would even care now.
OT but Shock News
$156,000 a year
http://www.news.com.au/business/companies/union-president-snoozes-at-his-desk-works-two-hours-a-day/story-fnda1bsz-1226652811077
Maybe Chris Christie eats in the same restaurant.
It was a great PR opportunity until confused beach goers panicked, and started pushing Christie back into the sea.
How much of my tax dollars from South Carolina went to support risky New Jersey businesses? Another storm will come along in a few years and wash away again. The Federal government should not be bailing out people who failed to get insurance.