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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 …

Demolishing Piro’s Italian Restaurant It’s always sad when popular restaurants around the Wildwoods get shut down forever. Over the course of history the Wildwoods lost famous restaurants such as Zaberer’s, The Captain’s Table and Groffs. Sadly there is another name being added to this list, Piro’s Village Restaurant. A few weeks back we reported that …

Boardwalk Block SOLD For 2.9 Million It’s not everyday that a whole block of the Wildwood Boardwalk is put up for sale. Back in May a listing for 2002-2024 Boardwalk in North Wildwood was put up for sale. The listing went on to say; “One whole entire Block of Real Estate, on the World Famous …

BG Capital Purchases St. Ann Rectory And School For a while now we have been hearing that the Parish of Notre Dame de la Mer had been in talks with BG Capital co-founder/managing partner Joseph Byrne to purchase the old St. Ann Rectory & School. Located on the full block at 2901 New Jersey Ave …

Pre-Demo Tour – The Fairview, 2nd St Annie’s, M.T. Bottles You know how the saying goes, “what’s old needs to come down so that the new can take it’s place.” I’m not sure if that’s a real saying but I works for the situation I am going to talk to you about. As you know, …

The Wildwood Coaster We NEVER Got! A few days ago we wrote an article about the farewell ceremony for the Golden Nugget Mine Ride which took place back in January of 2009. The article and video not only showed the very last days of the Golden Nugget but also showed what was going to take …

Wildwood 2020 – A Year In Review 2020 was surely unlike anything we could expected. The year started off with a sitting president visiting the island and ended with a world wide pandemic. Due to this pandemic the normal spring, summer and fall was unlike anything we could expect. Events were cancelled, Morey’s Piers opened …

Demolition Underway On NEW Pacific Ave Project There are many new projects going on through-out the Wildwoods this off-season. It seems that 2021 will be bringing many new buildings to the island. If you want to see a recap of all the projects taking place on the island click the link below. Wildwood Construction Projects …

Biking The Wildwood Boardwalk – [In November] Have you ever wondered what it looks and feels like to bike the Wildwood Boardwalk in November? The feeling you get is unbelievable!!! As you know, the weather is starting to get a bit chilly out and so we need to enjoy being outside before olde man winter …

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 …