DescriptionThe Casino was once a popular amusement center on the central Jersey Shore. The original Casino burned to the ground in the 1920's and a new version designed by New York architects Warren and Wetmore opened in 1929. The Casino housed a skating palace, bumper cars, skee ball, a carousel, the Circus Fun House and Mad-O-Rama, a dark fun ride whose entrance was denoted by the wide-open mouth of an unidentifiable creature. Except for a brief period in the late 1990's when the carousel house reopened as a skating park, the structure has been closed since the early 1990's. In late 2006 demolition of the skating palace took place and the boardwalk breezeway was closed to pedestrian traffic.

Time PeriodContemporary America (1968-present)

Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3RJ4KG8

CollectionJersey Shore

Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries

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