Love seeing these videos on a snowy Saturday. Can't wait for summer and those wild , wil, Wildwood days!
@WildwoodVideoArchive9 ай бұрын
I wish it was snowing down here. All we have is rain :-(
@Thunder_62789 ай бұрын
Joey, like the Dutch, they were planning to infill those areas and make new land for residential development. Great trivia, you'll be the hit of the party!🤪
@WildwoodVideoArchive9 ай бұрын
haha :-) I'm glad you liked it!! So much awesome history down here
@ajw209 ай бұрын
As a history nerd and North Wildwood lover, this video was very well-made. I would've never known about any of this! Honestly there is some really fun history here. What I also find interesting is how, over near Diamond Beach in Wildwood Crest, there are still plots where the roads were never finished. Apple Maps shows housing plots and zone grids, and you can clearly see zoned grids that were planned to be finished, but never were...
@aguythatworkstoomuch46247 ай бұрын
As a long time resident of north wildwood, I really like these videos!
@pointman9138 ай бұрын
Lived in N Wildwood year round in the 70's and 80's as a kid went to Margaret Mace. What a great time to be there. Just not the same today. Thanks for the info!
@chrisflocco80849 ай бұрын
Thank you for the update.
@Cheryl-em1ed9 ай бұрын
Love this❤ thank you Joey I'm planning on retiring there in 1 yr.I grew up there every Summer as a child🎉 Blessed for all you show us.Much appreciation Joey.
@WildwoodVideoArchive9 ай бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it!!! Happy almost retirement
@robwahl62889 ай бұрын
I knew quite a bit of this since I did an environmental sociological history of the entire island in the mid-1980s for an undergraduate project. What I did not know was how extensive the planning for those back bat areas was. Thanks!
@PamelaYoder-kc7lw19 күн бұрын
Never heard this before information before. Thanks for doing this video. 5:53
@markanchukaitis9 ай бұрын
So beautiful. My someday home. Thanks you.
@Cheryl-em1ed9 ай бұрын
Me too!!! Can't wait!!!
@Esemcee7298 ай бұрын
Absolutely loved this! Love and naturally, miss my hometown ❤️
@PatriciaBrown-x4y9 ай бұрын
1:12 Very good presentation. People should visit the great museum in the center of Wildwood. The information about the Battle of Turtle Gut Bay during the Revolutionary War is especially interesting. That is down in the Crest where I stay. There’s a monument down at the end of Sunset Lake.
@joeycontino96019 ай бұрын
we have a video on this channel about the Battle of Turtle Gut Bay
@JillWaldie-tl4vx9 ай бұрын
I’m so glad you made this video. Years ago while touring the Angelsea light house I saw a map on the wall showing streets named and numbered behind Delaware ave, in the grassy area there .i was told that the EPA acts in the 70,s stopped that building. This makes more sense! I went this past summer to show some others and we couldn’t find the map! Thanks!
@ShadySideJoe9 ай бұрын
Wow I never knew that, crazy to think about since I had family who owned houses in west wildwood for years
@thedankos39 ай бұрын
THe dock at the park on Delaware we use to love to walk out on. It’s shame can’t anymore
@terrymora1099 ай бұрын
Such beautiful footage
@nyguy3699 ай бұрын
Good video and research Joey! Love watching your videos. I spent the summers at King Nummy Campground with my family in the 1970's when it was owned by the Hands'. We always had nights on the Wildwood boardwalk back then. I Remember traveling from Indian Trail off of 47 over the rickety wood bridges into wildwood. Best summers of my life.
@Sunsoul8888 ай бұрын
Thanks Joey. Learned something new today. Great work. ❤ your videos. Pamela 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🙏🙏🙏🙏
@WildwoodVideoArchive8 ай бұрын
You are so welcome. Happy you enjoyed it!
@JackT_Music_on_Vinyl9 ай бұрын
All new info to me, Joey! Thanks for all the research that went into this.
@makeupwithvalerienotrends79619 ай бұрын
Brand new to me, thank you Joey for the information ❤
@michelleinman76499 ай бұрын
Very cool! I never knew this part of wildwood history!
@spikeg.jr.48938 ай бұрын
learn something new everyday, thanks Joey!
@WildwoodVideoArchive8 ай бұрын
You bet! Every day you have to learn something new
@johnchambers85289 ай бұрын
My family vacationed in Wildwood for years but I never knew they planed to fill in areas for development. As you noted now planers know the value of wetlands in helping control flooding. I do remember riding the train into Wildwood and riding over the wetlands till the train regained firm footing in the center of town coming over from Rio Grande where it diverted from the main line to cape May.
@bobwst9 ай бұрын
All new info to me. Thanks for the education.
@MrVTPhil8 ай бұрын
Fantastic video, as always. Any chance of doing a similar video on South Cape May video? You can still see the plats of the sunken properties on Zillow!
@lautburns48296 ай бұрын
Good job Joe!
@skipferguson34217 ай бұрын
When we were kids back in the '50's we waterskied through those little creeks in the back bay a (great, fond memory).
@christophermirkovich72909 ай бұрын
Interesting past
@WildwoodVideoArchive9 ай бұрын
so much unknown in the Wildwoods!
@cathylingo95219 ай бұрын
Never knew about this. Those old movies were awesome!
@Djjoeyd11675 ай бұрын
Awesome video Joey! ❤ I remember coming to Wildwood in the late 70s into the early 80s..coming into North Wildwood, grassy sound(The old Grassy Sound Drawbridge, always felt like it was ready to come tumbling down when you drove over it 😂) and seeing all those houses to the left or right into grassy sound and what not.. where you pretty much couldn’t even get to them anymore, they were falling apart, and I used to always imagine how they looked when they were brand new❤ Who lived there ect My brother and I,always talked about trying to find a way to go into one of those houses, 😳 but it did not look like a smart idea 😂 Will always love this town.. so many fond memories! Those Wildwood days ❤❤❤ I just found this channel, was hoping to find maybe a video on the greatest game that ever was played in Wildwood. and if you were coming to Wildwood back during the 70’s,(80s 90s.. best two decades for that game in my opinion) I know people would know what I’m talking about without even saying the name..Maybe a hint or 2…”4 red” “Coverall” “Party hour, where you could win a dinner for two at the blue Hawaii” “Hour long special” “Dime games” “Marty” Anybody know what the game is I’m talking about? Awesome fantastic memories.. me and my family would usually get there for the party hour(11pm) and most nights we close the place down, which on some nights it was as late as 230 am… on a packed weekend night.. close to 3 AM sometimes..Man that’s when Wildwood, back during the days when the piers would stay open till heck, 2 AM sometimes,usually only on the weekends(Weekdays still past 1am!) I guess those days are long gone…
@crazyman7629 ай бұрын
There was 2 houses in my family on Hoffman's canal for 90 years. I have not been to Wildwood for about 15 years so it is difficult to place much of anything in this clip. My Wildwood is literally gone now. My Grandmoms house was torn down this year when it was sold outside the family 2 years ago.. A 3 story McMansion is being built there now. Thanks for posting though.
@theroyburnhamshow39443 ай бұрын
wait that’s my boat driving in the water 8:13. and that’s literally my boat parking at the dock on the left 8:19
@barbarapellettiere33569 ай бұрын
I never knew, how interesting.
@ElizabethSalerno-s3d8 ай бұрын
Hey Joey, Great job as usual! Nope, we didn't know that... Keep up the awesome Wildwood journalism!
@deborahordynowicz20779 ай бұрын
thanks Joey this was new to me.
@robcschweitzer9 ай бұрын
Glad it never happened… preserved land for habitats
@paulakauffman21539 ай бұрын
I never knew there had been any plans to build in the bay area. Thanks for this story.
@TimC-in4dk9 ай бұрын
Very well done concerning the Lost Streets video. Very insightful and you thoroughly did your research. Do I hear Emmy? Thanks Joey
@WildwoodVideoArchive8 ай бұрын
haha you never know!! Thank you Tim!
@robertbrodie51839 ай бұрын
same thing in cape may my father took us kids to an entire layed out area on an extra low tide to a place his father had been scamed into buying in mid 1920s
@WildwoodVideoArchive9 ай бұрын
that is so interesting. Do you happen to know where in Cape May?
@robertbrodie51839 ай бұрын
@@WildwoodVideoArchive childhood memory but believe it was somewhere in lewis ferry area .....there also use to be an optics grinding factory that closed down at end off ww2 we picked up tons of partly finished lenses that had just been abandoned .....my father was a capemay native (live in octigon house) and he knew tons of local history .......
@hughjass79149 ай бұрын
Northwest Wildwood, maybe.
@joestegs69219 ай бұрын
As a long time wildwood vacationer I never knew this information. I do have a question Joey, will you be doing a video on the potential development project behind Susquehanna ave in wildwood central?
@marisinfarb62588 ай бұрын
Wait, there used to be a train line going down to Wildwoods?...! What happened to it????
@pamelasmith5149 ай бұрын
Great use of older footage.
@nickcef9 ай бұрын
In the future, if NJ Transit ever decides to extend the rail line from Bay Head all the way down to Cape May, I bet there will be a lot of development in these now empty areas in N. Wildwood. You can see a lot of condo development going on in North Jersey nowadays along the rail line, from Matawan all the way down to Asbury Park and beyond.
@frankrizzo74548 ай бұрын
Wildwood needs to move the boardwalk a half mile closer to the shoreline.
@WildwoodVideoArchive8 ай бұрын
Not in today’s climate. It’s in the perfect location.
@palmeredwards71388 ай бұрын
My wife and I where at Hersey Park and we thought we saw you was it you ? In December
@WildwoodVideoArchive8 ай бұрын
hey! No I wasn't in Hersey Park :-( I was sick for most of December haha
@shirleynitka50309 ай бұрын
I was on 16th St. The bay changed too much yearly.
@NancyZito8 ай бұрын
What is happening with Windward Motel
@WildwoodVideoArchive8 ай бұрын
Nothing yet
@Helen-mh8mq9 ай бұрын
Thank god it didn't happen!!!Wetlands are crucial for wildlife and protection for homes.