A Walk on the Wildwood Boardwalk in 1988

Such a precious moment in time. The boardwalk late 80's / early 90s at Wildwood is where my soul is and forever shall be! 🤓❤️ thank you for the sweet memories!

Thanks for sharing this memory. My wife and I owned a home in North Wildwood from 1990 through 2004. Little Nicky's while on our way home from the beach. People watching abnd ice cream in the evenings. It was a wonderful time.

This is truly magic, an amazing time capsule Bill. Thank you so much for sharing. Can't wait to see more footage. You've been doing great trip reports/observations for decades now!

Being able to see Dante's Inferno again after all of these years. ...you made my day!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks for posting. My parents used to take us there in the 80’s. Brings back memories. It was a better place then.

That brought back a lot of memories especially Hunt’s Pier, where we had to go on every ride like twice a night when we were there!

The time before the internet, personal computers, and mobile phones. The good old days!

Wow I was there that whole summer after graduation, seems like yesterday. Thanks for posting this

This is incredible! I am so, so bummed that I wasn't around to see this because all of the Bill Tracy attractions must have been amazing. I know it's unreasonable, but part of me hopes that at least one of these attractions will be recreated someday.

Bill, thank you sir! I have sooo many memories from being a kid and visiting Wildwood over the summer school break. Nothing more exciting than helping my Dad to pack up the station wagon and we'd go to the shore for a week with other families from my Philly neighborhood! I still remember the salt air, taffy, and skee-ball arcades!

One of the biggest hits of 1988 can be heard on Morey’s Pier here, Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley. I heard it a lot on the radio then and the later singles Together Forever and Strong Strong Man also 1988.

wow this brings me right back to the vacations with my grandparents thx u so much for posting 👍

I was there that summer and was 17 years old. I remember all those things on the boardwalk and across the street from the big building by the Funcade is where we stayed called Sans Souci. Some of the best times of my life.

Wow, what a blast from the past! I just went to Wildwood last week for the first time since 1884, and Iwas amazed by all the changes! The motel my family stayed in on 20th is gone now, the whole block is now luxury condos. Hunts pier is gone, and so are all the prize wheel games. But some parts of Wildwood haven't changed. Douglass fudge is still a treat, the beach is still big and wide and, oh yeah, "Watch the tram car, please!"

I love these videos! Thank you for sharing

I’m glad you guys documented all this stuff that isn’t there anymore including Hunt’s Pier and Castle Dracula. I’m building different years of Wildwood boardwalk and piers in this game Planet Coaster and I tried in RollerCoaster 1-3 but I started over in Planet Coaster. But you can’t make a proper ocean in Planet Coaster because of the landscape border which can’t be altered. In RCT3 you can make the water go to the horizon if you place it at a certain height. Then it looks like the ocean. RCT3 and Planet Coaster are made by the same developer and are 3D. The first two RCT’s are isometric. You can ride the rides in RCT3 and Planet. There’s also Parkitect which can be 3D and the rides can be ridden.

This brings back so many memories. Loved the Mountain Magic Leather Shop.

I started going there with my parents and sister in the late 70s as a small child. We stayed at the concad’or and bal harbor. What a wonderful time to be alive. I spent my days in the pool and arcade and my nights at the boardwalk. My father loved Ed Zaberers. We would always go during the last week of July into august. How magical it was to arrive in wildwood after a six hour drive and cross the bridge. The first thing we saw to indicate we were arriving in vacationland was uries reef and beef on the right and shortly after we would start to see boardwalk. It was always hot and sunny when we were there. I miss those times so much.

Amazing! I could watch this all day

I lived in N. Wildwood 1983-1991..... basically lived on the boardwalk (and later worked there when I got old enough) in the summers. I remember a school buddy and I walking around seaport village shortly after it opened, but before the main season began... also, my mother was kicked out of Ed's Funcade "for life" because she allegedly hipchecked one of the quarter stacker games...so many memories... thank you for sharing.