When you visit the Boardwalk today, you can enjoy a pleasant rest along one of three decks we recently added – one adjacent to the colonnade, another opposite the Looff Carousel and still another opposite the entrance to the Giant Dipper.

In the early decades of the last century, coming to the Boardwalk by train was THE WAY many thousands of visitors traveled. I’m too young to remember that, though I do remember the Sun Tan Special in its later years.

The Boardwalk explored attractions that used the latest laser technology in the 1980s. 

That’s me, Ted Whiting III, standing on the far right behind my little brother. We're in front of my family’s first Boardwalk concession, the "Bright Spot." I've been working at the Boardwalk since I was about 7 years old.

The Boardwalk's Cave Train opened in 1961, and our cave occupants have been an integral part of the beach scene ever since. But twenty years ago, we almost lost the ride. Boardwalk staff didn't realize how popular the ride and its prehistoric inhabitants were, until we started dismantling the cave in 1998. Here’s how the story unfolded.