Asbury Park's Glory Days: The Story of an American Resort

by Helen-Chantal Pike

Book Overview

Winner of the 2005 New Jersey Author Award for Scholarly Non-Fiction from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance

Long before Bruce Springsteen picked up a guitar; before Danny DeVito drove a taxi; before Jack Nicholson flew over the cuckoo's nest, Asbury Park was a seashore Shangri-La filled with shimmering odes to civic greatness, world-renowned baby parades, temples of retail, and atmospheric movie palaces. It was a magnet for tourists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813540879
• ISBN13: 9780813540870
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 9.2"