Wildwood is a beautiful city in Cape May County, New Jersey. Wildwood was initially incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on May 1, 1895. Wildwood became a city on January 1, 1912, replacing Wildwood borough and Holly Beach City. During the last decade of the 19th century, the Wildwoods began to develop as a resort. During the 1950s, a building boom began due partially to the construction and completion of the Garden State Parkway.
Tourists and vacationers love Wildwood as a resort city. Wildwood’s year-round population of over 5,300 grows to 250,000 during the summer peak tourist season. More than 200 motels were built in Wildwood during the Doo-Wop era of the 1950s and 1960s, in an area designated by the state of New Jersey as the Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District.
Here are some stunning vintage photos that show Wildwood in 1978 by John Margolies.
Was this the one they gave you those rough sacks to slide on?
Splinter Sacks™️
Lol i can still feel those bags
Itchy as hell.
I almost fell off the slide as a kid! I was dumb
I can feel this photo… Pretty much on the part of my bare leg that rubbed against the slide on the way down
I loved that slide, is it still there?
They removed it somewhere in the last 5 seasons. It was removed in 2010. Time isn’t real anymore. I go there every summer and can’t believe it’s been gone that long.