We were visiting on a Saturday and several parties were being held at the Museum for both young and older groups. The new home of the Museum appears far larger, and best of all, almost every square inch is crammed with pinballs and other amusement machines.
The old location, while never cramped, made the most of the space available by packing in the games. The new home for the Silverball Museum Arcade The other end of the boardwalk in the shadow of.Īnd there, in the heart of the action was the new Silverball Museum Arcade. The sun was beating down, the temperatures were in the 70s and the boardwalk was teeming with visitors making the most of the unseasonable weather. Nothing could have been more different this year. It was a dull, wet, miserable day and the waterfront was deserted. He hoped to secure a new location on the boardwalk at Asbury Park, and that's exactly what he did, opening the new Silverball Museum Arcade to the public in February of this year.Īfter last year's visit, we popped along to the boardwalk to see what it was like. Rob Ilvento's collection of 94 pinballs and 12 amusement machines was an impressive sight, but as we reported at the time, Rob had plans to expand the collection even further and the basement location just didn't allow for any more machines. Location: Silverball Museum Arcade, 1000 Ocean Ave, Asbury Park, NJ 07712, USA.Īlmost one year to the day, we paid our first visit to the Silverball Museum on Cookman Avenue in downtown Asbury Park. The Schwinn near the end of the clip is a Coppertone 1966 Collegiate 5-speed, which would have been new about the time the Asbury Boardwalk reached its Sixties peak.Date: October 2010, updated February 2011 Visitors in summer 2010 will find new green anodized metal roofs on the remaining buildings, but the main section of the Casino, which once reached out into the surf, suspended on pilings, was removed in 2007. Most of the video is from 2000, shot with a Sony PC100 mini-DV (digital tape) camera, long before digital video went wide aspect.
Except for another early photo illlustrating the Casino interior's original stage, balconies, and suspended lighting, the remainder of this clip is comprised of digital color still photos and video taken between 20 by Rick Darke. The photo postcard near the beginning of this clip shows the Casino complex in nearly new condition, with great lamps in place on top of the roof and on the columns flanking the gable ends of the walk-through section. The Casino remained in relatively good condition through the 1960's but after the roof was stripped of its copper the building quickly began to deteriorate. The Casino complex, which included the Carousel and the heating plant, was part of an overly ambitious architectural renewal in Asbury that included the Paramont Theater and Convention Hall. It was designed by the architectural firm Warren & Wetmore, who were famous for many other public buildings in North American including New York's Grand Central Terminal, and featured extensive use of cast bronze and sheet copper ornamentation.
The Casino, Asbury Park: The final decadeĪsbury Park's new Casino was completed in 1929-30, just in time for the worst of the Great Depression.
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