While we were at Wilda and Jim's, we watched the HBO series, Boardwalk Empire. It is about the Prohibition and the history of Atlantic City. The show is well written and we started watching it. In the evenings we would watch a few episodes. One of the actors that plays the new mayor of Atlantic City was in my high school class, Kevin O'Rourke. Since we had some time on our drive north to visit my cousin and her family in Wyckoff, New Jersey, we decided to take a side trip and drive through Atlantic City, which is north of Ocean City where we have been staying. Some of the large homes look like they may have been built during the time depicted in the show. One of the hotels was advertising a special premier showing of this season's first episode of Boardwalk Empire. So even Atlantic City is making profit on the history of the town even though it is a bit nefarious.
We did stop and taking photos of Lucy the Elephant. It is a large structure in the shape of an elephant, with stairs and rooms inside. Rich remembers crawling inside when he was a kid. Lucy is similar to the giant pineapple or mango, etc we saw in Australia but perhaps not as old as Lucy, which was built in 1881. You can read more about Lucy at www.lucytheelephant.org.
After Atlantic City we drove north on the Garden State Parkway to Wyckoff, NJ to spend the weekend with my cousin, Steph,her husband, Bill and their daughter Anneliese. That evening we joined at dinner by my Aunt Bert, whose is Steph's mother and Tom, Anneliese's boyfriend. We spent some of the evening looking at photos of my father's family.
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