National
Media Coverage
The
activities of the Doo Wop Preservation League have been a subject in nearly every
major media outlet. We've recently been featured in: Newsweek, USA today, Travel
& Leisure, New York Times, The New Yorker, Coastal Living Magazine, Associated
Press, Los Angeles Times, Metropolis Magazine, Preservation Magazine, Smithsonian
Magazine, CNN, CBS-TV, NBC-TV and more...
National
Media Features:
NEW!
American
Profile Magazine: Doo-Wop Revival (3/18/06) NEW!
American
Way Magazine: Back Inn Style (1/1/06) Boston
Globe: On Jersey Shore, classic motels meet bulldozer (5/7/05)
Smithsonian
Magazine: Doo Wop by the Sea (6/03)
NY
Times: Back to the Beach for a Blast of '50s Cool (6/28/02)
Philly.com:
Wildwood Looks Back to Build Its Future (5/23/02)
Architecture
Week: Preserving Doo-Wop (11/7/01)
Preservation
Magazine: Doo Wop Gets Its Due (7/01)
Courier
Post: Young Cats Dig Wildwood Tour of Hep "Doo Wop" Architecture (6/8/01)
NY
Times: Be-Bop-a-Lula, Wildwood's My Baby (8/30/00)
Metropolis
Magazine: Mining Wildwood's Pleasures (7/98)
Quotes:
"Rather
than razing them, the pro-motel forces say... polish them up and display them,
much in the way spots like Miami's South Beach; Palm Springs, Calif.; and Wildwood,
N.J., have been revitalized by selling themselves as distinctive locations,
worth visiting, at least in part for their architecture."
- New York
Times, March 7, 2004
"It isn't the mile-wide beach. It isn't the
affordable rates, even in midsummer. And it isn't the gargantuan Ferris wheel
casting its shadow at the end of the pier (though the Ferris wheel sure does help).
No, what makes Wildwood such a prime beach spot is the Doo Wop: that's the name
for the loopy, candy-colored 1950's aesthetic that predominates on this barrier
island just north of Cape May. Like so many vacation capitals born at the dawn
of the road-trip era, Wildwood endured a passé period during the seventies and
eighties. But over the past decade, after Yale architecture professors began making
field trips, a revitalization blossomed: those larger-than-life neon signs, kidney-shaped
pools, and plastic palm trees have all been spruced up, with a big, knowing wink..."
-
Travel & Leisure Magazine, "Party Like It's 1959", June 2005 |
