Colorized Historical Wildwood Photos – Part 1 Here at the Wildwood Video Archive we are always finding new ways to preserve our history. For the past seven years we preserved our history by purchasing old 8mm and 16mm reels, financed by our patrons on Patreon, and digitizing them one frame at a time. This is …
Castle Dracula Pre-Demolition Footage It’s sometimes easy to forget how quick time flies. It felt just like yesterday we were walking the spooky halls of Castle Dracula. What is crazy to think about is that Castle Dracula has been gone for 19 years. (Yeah, that may have put time in prospective for you). Much of …
Photos of the Wildwoods From 1915 History has truly made the Wildwoods into what it is today. From a small fishing village of Anglesea to a vacation destination, these towns have gone through so many changes. From time to time we find some very interesting things in the library of congress. This time we stumbled …
WWII Casings Found On Sea Isle City Beach For those who love to take your metal detector on vacation for you in search of treasure, one local women found history in Sea Isle. As you know, the winter and spring storms are very rough on our beaches. The constant flux of the shifting sand causes …
Remembering The Golden Nugget Ride Farewell Ceremony As you know I love to tell Wildwood history but today I stumbled upon something that I really wanted to spotlight. Dark in the Park, which is a website and a YouTube page that specializes dark rides at different amusement parks around the country, uploaded a really awesome …
Exploring An Abandoned Morey’s Piers Ride Morey’s Piers was founded in 1969 after Will and Bill Morey decided to build a slide just off the boardwalk and on the beach. It’s been 51 years and Morey’s piers are still giving us plenty of fun. In those 51 years the piers had seen many different changes. …
The Disney Cape May Connection Let’s be honest, at some point in your many years of vacationing here in Cape May and in the Wildwoods, you heard some kind of rumor about Disney coming down here. For instance, these rumors you could have heard were that Disney stole the idea of the Jungle Cruise ride …
The Time 280 Alligators Got Loose In Wildwood From Jan 17, 1920 – Dec 5, 1933 prohibition hit the country hard. With full government support, there was a ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. The government trusted local law enforcement to carry out the law of removing and discarding all …
Wildwood’s Historic Sea Theatre SAVED! We have some AMAZING news out of the Wildwoods today! As you know, we try to do everything in our power to preserve Wildwood history. From scanning 8mm films to historical videos, we like to keep the memories of Wildwood alive. Yesterday we received word that a historic theater, the …
We have some sad news coming out of the Wildwoods today. The iconic whale watching boat, Big Blue Sightseer has officially closed it’s doors. On a Facebook post today they posted this; “Captain Schumann and the Crew of the Big Blue Sightseer would like to thank all of you for your support over the past …