Asbury Park's glory days : the story of an American resort
"In Asbury Park's Glory Days award-winning author Helen-Chantal Pike chronicles the city's hey-day - the ninety-year period between 1890 and 1980. Pike illuminates the historical conditions contributing to the town's cycle of booms and recessions. She explains that the area has had four "peaks" of popularity - the 1890s, 1920s, 1940s, and 1960s - all periods during which the city thrived as a cultural center. She investigates the factors that influenced these peaks, such as location, lodging, dining, nightlife, merchandising, and immigration, and how and why millions of people spent their leisure time within this one-square-mile boundary on the northern coast of the state. Pike also includes an epilogue describing recent attempts to resurrect this once-vibrant city."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2005
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2005