I had one, but lost it, and cannot find it.
 
Seriously though, I remember buying one around '85 or '86. I don't know whatever happened to it.
The novelty of it wore off once you left the shore.
 
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I STILL mourn the Shell Shop. We vacationed in NWW between the 70s & late 80s. I think that was my most favorite place to shop while we were there. So many cool things were there! Somewhere I also have a refrigerator magnet that I bought there with the little seagulls on the boat pilings as well.
 
Finding the clothespin really brought it all back to me: hanging on the beach all morning, afternoons at the motel pool, and then hang up the towels and go get cleaned up for dinner out (or in) and then some shmooze time on the deck soaking in the whole beach atmosphere.

I had one of those big plastic horns (mine was red) and was surprised to see them on the beach and boardwalk this summer. Hearing the horn reminded me of how much lung power (or how little) was needed to make it work. I bet it's in my dad's attic.  
 
P.S.: I told a clerk selling those horns that I had one as a kid, but she was not impressed.

One of the mementos that I had but I am kicking myself for throwing out at some point, was one of those posters(circa 1986-87) that businesses paid for to have their placement on.  It was an illustration of the island, with the select(paying) businesses featured.  If I recall, that poster was huge, at least 16 x 20.
 
Wildwood needs a good poster!  
 
On my recent trip, I bought that poster print from the shop on the top floor of the Boardwalk Mall that is a collage of signs from Wildwood. It is nice, but it is not the same as that old poster.
 

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I remember those, they were great!
 
I'm sure I have one packed away somewhere, but haven't been able to find it. Can't imagine that we would have thrown something like that away. If you ever get the chance to stop by the Doo Wop Coffee Shop at the Tangiers, they have an older one hanging up on the wall in a frame. I probably wouldn't have noticed it had we not been seated next to it last year. Really cool to check out.
 
The poster you picked up from the Boardwalk Mall has an interesting story behind it. On a visit to the Boyer Museum in January, Bob Bright introduced me to the woman who took the photos for the collage. She was visiting fro Ireland, and apparently became quite enamored with the island on past visits. Very nice lady (whose name, naturally, escapes me at the moment).

I have a basement rec room filled with neon signs and a few fragments from motels that are no longer with us.
 
But, my most cherished Wildwood mementos are the postcards I collected when I was younger. Specifically, the ones my grandparents would send me from Wildwood - with goofy little messages on the back - and the ones I picked up with my mom on the Boardwalk.
 
I know I've mentioned this before, but my mom and I had this ritual. The last thing we would do on any vacation was hit a handful of Boardwalk shops and pick out as many postcards as we could, that we didn't already have. Sometimes, they'd have deals like "6 for $1," so we would occasionally get a few duplicates.
 
This tradition always seemed to ease the sadness of leaving Wildwood, especially for the final time each year. I had a small leather carrying case that my grandfather had picked up somewhere in the Pacific during WWII that I kept my cards in. When the collection became too large, we transferred them to a photo album; I then started bringing this case to Wildwood with me, and immediately put my new cards in it when we got to the car for the ride home.
 
Along the way, I probably pulled them out and looked them over a few dozen times along the Parkway and Rt. 73 on the way back to Philly... and who-knows-how-many-times over the winter, dreaming our return to the 'Wood.
 
But, it's definitely that personal connection that still makes looking at these cards so special. I keep them separate from the newer-older cards I pick up on eBay these days, just for that reason.

I have that poster framed and hanging on my bedroom 'Wildwood' wall.  
 
I have lots of little odds and ends collected over the years.  My favorite other than the poster is a little cross-stitch of the boardwalk made from a kit bought at Salty Dog Needlecraft.  I probably still have the pattern filed away if any of you crafty types are interested.
 

 

Sadly I really don't have any mementos from Wildwood other than photos/videos. I've always thought about making a scrap book of sorts with tokens, tickets, photos, postcards, etc in it but just never got around to starting one.