Word: boardwalkers
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...weeks after the G.O.P. convention to be held in San Francisco's Cow Palace. One reason for the site choice was that Democrats figure on a rather dull convention in which Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson will be routinely renominated. Atlantic City's besonged Boardwalk might offer bored delegates a chance for cut-rate, nonpolitical amusement...
...Cape Canaveral Satellite Jet-passengers enter the rocket, fasten seat belts, then blast off with engines roaring as filmed special-effects from actual space shots conjure up a journey to the moon. The Colonel Glenn Sky Ride has 16 plastic bubbles orbiting 80 feet above the boardwalk. For downward exploration the Neptune Diving Bell encloses 30 people, drops them 35 feet down to an "ocean floor" where live porpoises play. Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that can't decide whether to plunge suicidally earthward...
...middle of traffic or otherwise) with a perfect, beautiful composure. He would have loved to have been a sailor, but he gets seasick all the time, so he has to make do without actual water. But everything else is the same. In his home on the pier, a boardwalk fun house tilted 45 degrees, he sleeps in a hammock, serves coffee to plump lady guests, catches them tactfully by the knees when they slide off their tilted chairs, and paces the floor (with some difficulty on the uphill and a kind of run downhill...
...chances are good that when the passengers aboard Sandcastle Pier set sail, when they celebrate their hero's return by jumping up and down, that you will be grinning as delightedly as they are. Perhaps you understand why the admiral, alone and adrift on a portion of boardwalk, with cotton in his ears to prevent seasickness, quietly refuses offers of help...
...come over just for the day on the ferry from Naples (fare: 70?) wearing only shorts and sandals, carrying only a camera and a lunch box. And to meet the taste of the new invaders, the Capresi have converted the once-charming fishing village of Marina Grande into a boardwalk displaying cheap religious bibelots and tinny music boxes that wheeze out the saccharine strains of The Isle...