It was crazy.'Ī few doors down, The Silverball Pinball Museum's front-facing windows also fell, allowing inches of water to creep beneath the arcade machines, including a Baffle Ball that dates back to 1931.
'It carried everything inside: sand, water, glass, metal and wood. 'When Sandy hit the main floor of Langosta Lounge, the frames of all of the floor-to-ceiling windows facing the ocean blew in,' said Marilyn Schlossbach, a chef and restaurateur whose four properties inside of a beach pavilion along the Asbury Park boardwalk were shut down for months by the storm. Now, after Superstorm Sandy touched down in the longtime tourist destination a year ago today, some locals are hoping to say farewell to the hard times for good. There were the race riots in 1970 and a depressed local economy throughout the '80s, when lifelong residents say it felt like the world had forgotten their historic architecture and white beaches.
29, 2013— - The seaside community that inspired the name of Bruce Springsteen's first studio album, 'Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.,' is no stranger to adversity.