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From New York Times
A Classic Boardwalk on the Jersey Shore,
Still Delivering Thrills
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ
Published: July 21,
2006
WHAT’S summer
without a boardwalk and its surplus of flimsily stuffed animals, rickety
rides, flip-flopped visitors and chances to gorge on foods that scream
“eeee” (cotton candy, salt water taffy and Icee, to the
uninitiated)?
Joe Fornabaio for The
New York Times
Parental nostalgia and childhood excitement mesh in Point
Pleasant Beach, N.J.
For the crowd gathered on
Jenkinson’s Boardwalk at Point Pleasant
Beach on the Jersey Shore, a stretch of
plank that caters delightfully to the underteen, chewable-vitamin set, the
answer is as predictable as the experience itself, which is exactly the
point.
Nostalgia churns here. It’s what drives adults to pack
their children into cars and let them revel in the same salt-tinged
delirium of their own youth, staying up way past bedtime, circling wildly
on the Super Himalaya and having one candied apple too many. Add sand, sea
gulls and surf, and the children will walk away with reminiscences of their
own.
“Without the boardwalk, my kids’ summer memories
just wouldn’t be complete,” said Kate Jaenicke, 37, a regular
here since childhood who fondly recalls her grandparents’
after-dinner “We’re going to the boardwalk”
announcements. Only a one-hour drive from New York City,
on a good day, or a short haul on New Jersey Transit, Point Pleasant Beach is an ideal place for small
children: it’s clean, compact, draws a family crowd and sings in a
relatively low key. The scene is convivial without tumbling into the kind
of tawdriness that sometimes infects Wildwood and Seaside Heights,
farther south.
Even Martell’s Tiki Bar, a colorful restaurant-bar that
sits on a pier jutting into the ocean, is more appealing than it is
foreboding, despite its flow of rum and tequila.
“This isn’t rowdy here,” said Deirdre
McCarthy, who lives in Monmouth
County and has been
coming to Jenkinson’s for 15 years. She was visiting with her
children and grandchildren and pointed out that even on crowded days, the
wait for amusement park rides was short. “You don’t have to
worry about the drinking and the bikers,” she said. “The other
boardwalks have more of a transient crowd.”
And, she said, “The beach here is nice.” The Point Pleasant Beach train stop is about a
15-minute walk from the boardwalk. Fifteen minutes in the opposite
direction, west, gets you to the town of Point Pleasant Beach, a pretty,
unpretentious spot that is veering upscale. A clutch of restaurants, ice
cream shops and clothing stores stretch along the main strip, Arnold Avenue.
But enough of that. The children don’t come here to
dawdle in restaurants and shop for shell-themed home accents. They come for
the games and the rides, which are even more of a treat in the evenings
after the lights flick on.
Jenkinson’s offers a roller coaster that is fairly small
but has enough dips and twirls to keep preteens happy. The ubiquitous Super
Himalaya is also there, along with all sorts of rides that twist and spin
heartily enough to test even the strongest stomachs. Sofia, my 4-year-old
daughter, was thrilled to drive her own child-size bumper car, which she
happily used to ram any other kid who crossed her path. And she pronounced
the Dizzy Dragons, “faster than Superman.” My older daughter,
Isabel, clambered up the rock wall, her personal favorite, but then got
stuck at the top and had to be lowered manually by one of the operators.
Abby Skurat, 36, watched as her two children, Patrick, 6, and
Sara, 4, flew on a miniplane and explained that she and her husband became
engaged at the end of the pier, where Frank Sinatra booms on a speaker.
“It’s comfortable and it’s easy,” she said of
Jenkinson’s, describing the place with two words that are not often
associated with boardwalks.
THE boardwalk caters to children in other ways, too. There is
Castaway Cove Adventure Golf, an 18-hole attraction and one of three golf
places. Adults pay $9 to get in, and children 10 and under pay $6. There is
a funhouse, for $5, which seemed absurdly primitive with its neon paint yet
still managed to scare my children so badly they were pounding on a door
and screeching to be set free from its inner passageways. And toward one
end of the boardwalk is an aquarium with penguins, seals, sharks and
alligators, described by some of its regulars as quaint and good for a
rainy day. Tucked around the corner is a series of batting cages.
The boardwalk itself, owned by the Borough of Point Pleasant
Beach, extends about a mile south from the Manasquan Inlet, and the
arcades, the rides and the restaurants stretch about a third of its length.
The beach, a small but picturesque stretch operated by Jenkinson’s,
offers free daily summer events for children, including movies on the beach
on Sunday nights, children’s shows on Monday, Radio Disney Concerts
on Wednesday and fireworks on Thursday.
“The beach gets
crowded on weekends,” said Robyn Iacurci, 46, who has been going to Point Pleasant Beach for 20 years and was waiting
for her two children to climb off a spinning ride. “But there’s
never much of a wait for the rides.”
And, of course, the boardwalk serves up funnel cake, sausage
and pizza to spare, along with Mrs. Fatima, a reader and adviser. Girls and
boys with sticky pink and blue faces ran amok. Asked why cotton candy won
out over the rest of the possibilities, Emily Jaenicke, 6, one of Mrs.
Jaenicke’s daughters, answered without a hint of condescension,
“It is very sweet and it melts very quickly in your mouth.”
Regulars say the best pizza on the boardwalk is at Joey
Tomatoes, and it was truly tasty. Junk food aficionados are free to induce
artery panic nearby with the purchase of fried Oreos, Oreo cookies
deep-fried in funnel batter. The boardwalk is lined with four arcades and
games (one offers a bamboo plant as the prize). A few of them, including
one called Go Fish, are of the no-lose variety, the places to go when all
hopes of winning have crashed. Everybody in our party got to take home a
small stuffed duck or fish.
Those who crave a tad of the raw ambience that often characterizes
the Jersey boardwalk can find it in small
doses. In addition to Martell’s, there is a nightclub called Jenks,
which offers live music. T-shirts declaring “Been There, Drank
That” are never too far away, and one passerby graciously offered a
fulsome belch as he strolled by, just as I was doubting the place’s
authenticity.
Aaaah, the boardwalk.
“It’s all here,” Mrs. Iacurci said, and her
word is as good as it gets.
VISITOR INFORMATION
TO reach Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., from the north, leave the Garden State Parkway at Exit 98 and
take Routes 34 and 35 south to the Manasquan Inlet
Bridge. From the
south, leave the parkway at Exit 90 and follow Routes 70 and 88 to Route 35
north and the bridge. Detailed directions are on the Web site of Jenkinson’s
Boardwalk (www.jenkinsons.com),
a company that owns boardwalk attractions in Point Pleasant Beach.
Jenkinson’s opens every day at noon, weather permitting,
and closes at 11 p.m. Summer events run through Sept. 10. The beach is open
from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Admission is $2 for children 5 to 11 and $6 for
adults ($7 on weekends and holidays). Chairs cost $6.
Visitors can buy 20 Jenkinson’s tickets for $12 and 60
for $25. Most rides require three to seven tickets. Locals are known to
stock up on tickets over the Easter weekend, when the amusement park offers
two-for-one discounts. The tickets never expire. Until Sept. 3, visitors
can go on all rides for $12 during times when wristbands are required, Tuesdays
from noon to 6 p.m. and Fridays from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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Tip #19
Home Buying Tip, Online Searching:
Searching online is a very effective way to look for real estate in New Jersey, or
anywhere for that matter. Good websites
allow you to search through multiple MLS’s so you can cover a wide
range. For example here you can Search for NJ Real Estate.
After you find the house you are
interested in you can inquiry with the real estate agency to find out
more information or to arrange an appointment to view the house.
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Tip #18
Home Selling Tip, Targeting Out Of State:
When you sell your home you sometimes have to put yourself in the
potential buyers’ shoes. In New Jersey many home buyers are from the
surrounding area, like New York or Pennsylvania.
Knowing this can allow your agent to
market your house more effectively.
If he/she will advertise in a New York publication they can describe
the proximity to NY. This allows
your potential Buyer Base to expand.
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