This is where I've been living half the time. I walk the 2 1/2 mile Wildwood Boardwalk almost every night. I uploaded some photos of the same boardwalk last winter when hardly anyone was there, and no shops were open at all. It's now the last weekend of the summer, and everyone should be out enjoying it while it lasts!
I took all these photos this afternoon, and I slightly edited them all to enhance the quality this evening. I normally don't publish until at least a few days after the photo shoot.
Wildwood Crest is the town South of Wildwood. That's where I live. North Wildwood is to the North, and the Northern end of the boardwalk is in North Wildwood. Wildwood Crest has a bike trail leading to the boardwalk in Wildwood.
The tramcar runs the entire 2 1/2 length of the boardwalk. I rode it back South after I walked and took photos the entire length heading North.
View from the boardwalk. They play some kind of ball game there every night during the tourist season.
Wildwoods refers to the entire 7 mile island. It's called 5 mile island because there used to be an inlet that no longer exists.
A mini golf course across the street; as seen from the boardwalk.
Most shops on the boardwalk are very generic and pretty much all the same. It's mostly cheap dollar store quality ocean toys and nic-nacs inflated to wealthy vacationer's prices. A few stores are a bit different and more upscale. I went into Bee Royal once. The prices are insane! They wanted like $45 for like a 6 ounce little bottle honey. I pay a premium for good, local honey, but I'm not gonna pay nearly that much!
Everyone in the Philly metro region knows Mack's is in Wildwood. There's 2 of them, and they are really good. This is their South store.
The other phrase everyone in Philly knows means Wildwood is "watch the tramcar, please."
You can ride in submarines in the tank and shoot at the enemies.
The Boardwalk Mall contains a huge classic arcade room. They have that old hockey game from the 80s and/or 90s where you move the players around on tracks. They also have Mortal Kombat 3.
The Boardwalk has 3 Morey's Piers. This is the entrance to their center and largest pier. All photos are in order of Northern travel.
The dollar store sells bottles of water for 1 dollar. It's $4 or more at many of the restaurants. They don't give free cups of water anywhere on the boardwalk that I know about.
The Retro Arcade was open on my way back South on the tramcar. I don't like it. Inside both doors has mass punching games out front with cheap signs calling the games fake names like "sock the coronavirus" and propaganda about eradicating it. The guy sits in the middle of the room on a barstool with a big huge respirator over his face, and wears a leather police/S&M hat. He yelled at a friend of mine for taking photos. Most of the games are run down and the controllers don't work. There are some neat antique arcades from before video games even existed.
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