The Magic Café
Username:
Password:
[ Lost Password ]
  [ Forgot Username ]
The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » Step right up! » » New book on the Steel Pier is out (0 Likes) Printer Friendly Version

sethb
View Profile
Inner circle
The Jersey Shore
2841 Posts

Profile of sethb
For those old enough to remember the Steel Pier in Atlantic City, there is a WONDERFUL new book just out called "STEEL PIER: THE SHOWPLACE OF THE NATION." This hardcover 264-page book is available for $40 from Down the Shore Publishing, and is worth every penny. Click HERE for more info.

The Steel Pier was the equivalent of Disneyland, 30 years before Disneyland was built. It had three movie theaters, two vaudeville theaters, a gigantic Marine Ballroom, a Water Circus, six funhouses, a Diving Bell, two dark rides (one ride-thru and one walk-thru), exhiibits sponsored by General Motors and General Electric, the Dancing Waters, and the world-famous High Diving Horse. There was also a ton of amazing concessions, including a Svengali Pitch (!), a great code (mindreading) act, a glassblower who made weather swans (barometers), fortune-telling parakeets, a Seal Zoo and I forget what else.

It was an amazing place and this is an amazing book. Don't miss it.

P.S. In 1960, I was ten years old and helping out behind the front desk of my Dad's motel in Atlantic City. Every week we got about 50 free passes to the Pier, to give out to some of the guests. But every week, somehow one or two of those passes never made it over the front counter, landing instead in my pocket. So I knew that Pier inside and out!! SETH
"Watch the Professor!!" -- Al Flosso (1895-1976)
"The better you are, the closer they watch" -- Darwin Ortiz, STRONG MAGIC
DonDriver
View Profile
Inner circle
1790 Posts

Profile of DonDriver
Seth,
Thanks so much.I bookmarked the site and will be putting in my order soon.

I did visit the Steel Pier about 1965.It was a wonderful fun place.

Don
The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » Step right up! » » New book on the Steel Pier is out (0 Likes)
[ Top of Page ]
All content & postings Copyright © 2001-2024 Steve Brooks. All Rights Reserved.
This page was created in 0.01 seconds requiring 5 database queries.
The views and comments expressed on The Magic Café
are not necessarily those of The Magic Café, Steve Brooks, or Steve Brooks Magic.
> Privacy Statement <

ROTFL Billions and billions served! ROTFL