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

by Helen-Chantal Pike

Book Overview

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, a summer vacation mecca-to some degree New Jersey's own Coney Island. In Asbury Park's Glory Days , award-winning author...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813535476
• ISBN13: 9780813535470
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Rivergate Books
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.9" x 9.4"