Wildwood History Articles

Wildwood In 1915 Wildwood In 1915 This is a prime example on why I created the Wildwood Video Archive. I wanted to create a space to preserve Wildwood's history on video. Remember, if you have a old Wildwood...

Cape May's Concrete Ship's Bell Found, Sorta This great story that only a hand full of people know about is brought to us by Ben Miller. A story that can finally be told... People often forget that at ...

Hindenburg in Cape May We all have seen the Hindenburg photo over Wildwood, but did you know there was a video that existed of the Hindenburg in Cape May? This photo (pictured on the right) which by the cap...

Cape May Concrete Ship In 1927 We have all heard of the concrete ship (aka SS Atlantus) but not many of us know what she looked like when she was beached there on June 8th 1926.  The SS Atlantus was one of ...

The Wildwood Song You Didnt Know Existed When you think of Wildwood based songs, the first one that comes to mind is Bobby Rydell’s famous “Wildwood Days” and sometimes the occasional, “Wildwood By The...

By now not many people remember too much about the short lived Seaport Village that is located on 22nd street in North Wildwood. Most new Wildwood visitors, past the summer of 2008,  know it as that empty pier...

Before you read please take a minute to remember those who fought in World War II and  also those who lost their lives on the merchant vessels that were sunk off our coast from German U-boats. Thank you W...

Saving The Wildwood Postcards Try to remember what your favorite rides in Wildwood looked like in the 1980s. See if you are able to remember what color the ride was or what other rides were surrounding your fa...

There used to be many different kinds of ways that people made it down to The Wildwoods. Before  it was cars, it was trains, before trains it was large wooden ships. A lot of our transportation history made th...

Before I start this article, I would like to give a big thank you to Jackson Betz who provided the historical facts and information to make this article possible.   Goodbye Lamp Post Diner   ...