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"Doo
Wop Experience" Finally Opens Its Doors After years of planning, months of anticipation, and a "soft opening"... |
Message
from the President 1997-2007... Ten Years Later... Here We Are, But Where Are We? by Dan MacElrevey |
National
Trust for Historic Preservation Adds Doo Wop Motels to 2006 "Most Endangered"
List I became a member of Preservation New Jersey several years ago... by Michael Hirsch |
Not
Gone... Not Forgotten... "Doo Wop Back to the '50s Tour" Doo Wop Back to the Fifties Tour returns for 2007. The re-vamped tour will debut April 28, 2007... by Mary Fox |
Educational
Opportunities at the “Doo-Wop Experience” Museum The Doo Wop Preservation League is planning an educational program for students in grades K-12... by Joan Husband |
Lights,
Camera, Action, Doo Wop! Doo-Wop themed Ice Cream Parlor in North Wildwood featured on cable TV's "Trading Spaces"... by Paul Russo |
Owning
a Landmark An account of owning and renovating the newly restored Doo Wop landmark Caribbean Motel... by Carolyn Emigh |
Neo-Doo
Wop How to make Wildwood more Wildwoodian... |
They
Are Everywhere! Some are big, some are small, some are new and some are... blue? |
2007
Edition |
They Are Everywhere! Some are big, some are small, some are new, and some are... blue? If you’ve gone for a drive, or even a short walk around the Wildwoods lately, you’re sure to have noticed one thing: those plastic palm trees are everywhere! These kitschy icons of Doo Wop have been adding an “exotic” touch to the Wildwoods and their famous motels since the 1950s when the Caribbean Motel in Wildwood Crest claims to have “planted” the first. Scientists - er, Doo-Wop-ologists - have even coined an official term for this unique species of South Jersey flora: “Palmus plasticus wildwoodii”. The newest (and most unusual) breed was recently discovered at the Blue Palms Motel at Lincoln & Atlantic Avenues... even Wildwood has never seen this kind of tree before! |