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Life Is A Beach, And That's Just The Point
What keeps pulling me back to Point Beach year, after year, after year....
The sloping, swirling roller coaster sure looks the same, the same one I once had to push uphill - knowing that one little slip, and I was roadkill - to get it where it is now, on the Point Pleasant Beach Boardwalk. We got in the back of the truck trailer that carried it, flattened our hands, pinned our arms against it and moved the strapped-down machinery slowly, inch-by-inch, up a rocky driveway that seemed steeper than a hill in Appalachia. With every slow, careful shove forward, the big two-ton hulking mass would roll one quick and perilous step back toward us, ready to roll us onto Ocean Avenue. The thing got so close to us that the wheels nearly clipped our toes. Or so it felt. I could sense the weight of the rubber trailer wheels …
Maggie Hart-Zuhowski
11:36 am on Thursday, August 16, 2012
Great article- knew a lot of the people mentioned personally and brought back great memories. I can follow every move like it was my own life. I can also relate that you don't know what we have here until you can't get there. I had to move to MD with my job in 2009- I loved my job but something was missing-and I felt very lost down there. I was missing something ( besides my thousands of … more ›