Texaco Hooksett, NH

[HoJofan206]

As the Dixie Square Mall was a great conversation peice (and had great photo's attached by many) does anyone have any pictures or comments on any other malls/restaurants/hotels, etc that we can discuss and have pictures to view?

[HoJofan206]

Is anyone in here old enough/or have visited the "Boardwalk" In Ashbury New Jersey.  It is a huge piece of history as well rotting away.  It was shown in the 1989 movie "Beaches" starring Bette Midler.  Does anyone have any current pictures to post of Ashbury?  I think it is home to one of the last surving Howard Johnson Restaurants as well (open seasonally)

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by HoJofan206
Is anyone in here old enough/or have visited the "Boardwalk" In Ashbury New Jersey.  It is a huge piece of history as well rotting away.  It was shown in the 1989 movie "Beaches" starring Bette Midler.  Does anyone have any current pictures to post of Ashbury?  I think it is home to one of the last surving Howard Johnson Restaurants as well (open seasonally)

Beaches came out in 1988


and there are mny sights im sure have pictures in there im gonna be going ti Jersey next weekend i'll try and go there if i can most of the park has been torn down though

[Jag67]

Oh..Asbury Park. Home of the boardwalk, Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes...and Tillie. Palace Amusements. This place was to Hew Jersey as what Dixie Square is to Chicago. This place opened in 1888 and closed 100 year later, on November 27, 1988. The park was demolished on May 26, 2004. This building was built in 1956.

Asbury is pretty much a ghost town, and so poor that there's the skeleton of an unfinished condo tower sitting abandoned since 1994 due to the city running out of money.

[Jag67]

Another pic. For some reason Tillie is liked very much. So much that almost every trace of him has been removed from palace by "Tillienthuisiasts". Even from the side of the building itself!!! Noticed the caved-in roof.

[BillyGr]

Here are a few sites about Asbury for more info:

http://www.asburyboardwalk.com/
http://asburypark.net/home.shtml
http://asburypark.net/news/columns/anewday/index.html - (This one is from the site above but has a series of articles written by a (then active) council member on a variety of topics about the current revitalization going on there)
http://www.asburypartners.com/archive.htm - The group that is coordinating the restorations
http://www.homestead.com/savetillie/Home.html - The group that tried to prevent the demolition of the Palace.

[BillyGr]

Originally posted by Jag67
Asbury is pretty much a ghost town, and so poor that there's the skeleton of an unfinished condo tower sitting abandoned since 1994 due to the city running out of money.

Actually, the city wasn't the one that built that building - it was a development group - the problem occurred when that group went bankrupt and the city hadn't written into the contract any way to take back or regain control over the properties.  The group had taken over most of the boardwalk and even kicked out the few remaining shops - after they went bankrupt the whole thing was tied up in court for years - if they hadn't had that problem all the renovations happening now could have taken place years ago.

[HoJofan206]

So you are saying that most/all of the original Boardwalk is now gone?  That is soooooo sad.  I wanted to visit it one more time.  :no::(

[Caldor1999]

Originally posted by HoJofan206
So you are saying that most/all of the original Boardwalk is now gone?  That is soooooo sad.  I wanted to visit it one more time.  :no::(

not all of it is gone they just tore down that bulding that had the clown face on it much of it is still there includinr the old ho jo's

[Jag67]

There was an abandoned building right next to our airport...the Westinghouse building. It was built in 1942 as a Curtis-Wright aircraft plant for WWII. In 1946, after the war was over, they Sold the plant to Westinghouse. Westinghouse stayed until they closed the plant in 1984, A year later, The Buffalo Airport bought the property and renamed it "Buffalo Airport Center" and made it into a business park. It was abandoned in 1990 and was very quickly vandalized and deteriorated, I mean QUICKLY. Within 3 years of it's closure it looked like it had been closed for 13. It was demolished in Spring of 1999. There is still debris from the plant visible today, near where the back of the complex was, right in front of the Flying Tigers Restaurant (A now-abandoned restaurant right next to the runway that closed in Oct. 2004).

I only remember seeing once (I'd passed by it many times before, but never paid attention to it and was too little to remember) around 1997, and the place looked horrible. Smashed windows, weeds on the roof, WIDE OPEN, and weeds taller than a van. I mean it was ROUGH

This was the only decent pic I could find. It was taken in 1998. I know it doesnt look too bad here, but up close it was ROUGH

[Caldor1999]

hear how asbury Park looks now alot of it was torn down but the bordwalk is still there there trying to make the city nicer there doing a good job too

[Caldor1999]

i was able to go inside that bulding the outher to parts of it were seiled off and had trees growing in there

[Caldor1999]

inside there told a histroy of the park also the flor was slopy and u could easyley fall down lol


hears teh front of the bulding pritty scary huh

[Caldor1999]

more pics

[Caldor1999]

the bordwalk

[Caldor1999]

more

[Caldor1999]

not olny was the park loseing bizz but the whole city was falling apart bu now it seems to be cleaning up and im happy to see some of the park still there

[Caldor1999]

so many abandoned buldings this looks like it is gonna be torn down

[Caldor1999]

more bordwalk pictures

[Caldor1999]

hears how the city looks now its look much betetr now then it did probley 10 years ago

[Caldor1999]

anouther bulding

[Jag67]

Nice pics caldor..I cant believe they legally let people into an abandoned building!!

 Flying Tigers, like I mentioned earlier, was an awesome restaurant. It was RIGHT next to the Buffalo Airport. You could watch the planes land/take off while you ate. Ther was also a hill in front of the restaurant that you could see the planes from..really up close. I was at FT just days before it closed and it was bustling, as usual. I was absolutely shocked when I heard on the radio on my bus that it had closed for good. Oh well. I plan on going to the vacant FT to look at planes (If it's not fenced off) I'll try to get pics. I'm sure the weed are pretty high by now, unless the property is still maintained. They were high when it was open!!

[HoJofan206]

THat would be great if you could get some pics of the "Tiger" restaurant!  A small piece of history before it is gone.

[Caldor1999]

hears more inside pictures of the Casino

[Caldor1999]

it also had ice sketing hear too

[Caldor1999]

hears some old restunt

[Caldor1999]

anouther old bulding

[HoJofan206]

Those old pics of Ashbury Park are so cool to see.  Wish I was close enough to visit myself.  Thanks for posting them for those of us far away to see!!

[Caldor1999]

hears the top of it

[Caldor1999]

hears more of the bordwalk thi is were all the restrunts use to be