1933 NEW JERSEY magazine articles, people, places etc, color photos

Description: Selling are 3 magazine articles from 1933: NEW JERSEY Title: NEW JERSEY NOW! Author: E. John Long Quoting the first page “Suppose, a few years ago, a dictator had called his engineers and architects together and said: "Build me a city on a sand bar seven miles at sea, remote from other cities. On my sand bar man can raise no food; there is no fresh water, nor any stone, steel, cement, or lumber. But here I want wide boulevards, skyscraper hotels, thousands of homes and shops, with food and drink for 60,000 residents. I want the beaches around this city to be clean and healthful, so find a way to dispose of waste. "Further, I want you to construct this city so flexibly that I may move in my army of 400,000 overnight, and be able to shelter, feed, and amuse them all over week-ends. Then your trains and buses must whisk them away between sunset and dawn. Such invasions will occur several times a year." What would the engineers and architects have said? That such a miracle transcended human power! Yet Atlantic City to-day is that miracle. ALL the great treks of history-the Persians under Xerxes, the Huns under Attila, the Moslems under Mohammed II, the "Golden Horde" of Tatars, the Norman invasion, and the Crusades-shrink to thin ranks when measured against Atlantic City's 12,000,000 annual visitors. All the population of a nation like Argentina or Canada, or almost twice the population of the Australian Continent, pilgrimaging in a few months to a strip of sand ten miles long and a half to three-quarters of a mile wide! Less than one hundred years ago Atlantic City was a nameless cluster of fishermen's huts on Absecon Island. Then came rails from Philadelphia, and the first excursion train, July 1, 1854. Its 500 passengers taxed the pioneer resort. But what would its early innkeepers say now if they could see Atlantic City receiving 500 visitors every minute during 12 hours of a July Fourth or Labor Day week-end! . The famed Boardwalk begins at the Inlet and parallels the ocean shore for seven miles through Atlantic City, and the adjoining municipalities of Ventnor and Margate City. Not all of Atlantic City's 12,000,000 annual visitors swim, sail, fish, or take part in the other amusements the resort affords, but all of them walk, or ride in a rolling chair, along this incomparable Boardwalk. Morning, noon, and night the tap, tap, tapping of thousands of heels and toes resounds on planks where the pedestrian is king and where walking is no lost art. Rich man, poor man, artist, lawyer, merchant, actress, the Colonel's lady, and Judy O'Grady pass in review, to see and to be seen. No one knows just when this greatest of promenades began. Loose boards were laid on the sand around Civil War time. Tiny shops and bathhouses bordered the landward side. The planks were taken up at the end of the season and stored a safe distance from the reach of winter waves…” 7” x 10”; 50 pages, 49 B&W photos plus maps Title: Beaches & Bathers of the Jersey Shore Title: Farms and Workshops of the Garden State Photos by: Edwin L. Wisherd No text, just photo captions. 7” x 10”; 16 pages, 24 color photos of people and places in New Jersey. These are pages from an actual 1933 magazine. No reprints or copies. 33E1 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other auctions and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books. Click Here To Visit My eBay Store: busybeas books and ads Thousands of advertisement pages and old articles Anything I find that looks interesting! Please see my other auctions for more goodies, books and magazines. I’ll combine wins to save on postage. Thanks For Looking! Luke 12: 15

Price: 11 CAD

Location: Hubbards, Nova Scotia

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