The Captain’s Table Beach at Hollywood Rd., Wildwood Crest NJ
We drove down a bit to get to it, and that’s the address above!
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We enjoyed our time in Wildwood too, had never been there before going to the conventions. Duffer’s sounds familiar, a restaurant? The one year when we finally drove to Cape May it had to rain that day! We stayed at Binn’s Motor Inn until the last time, it had changed owners and our room had bugs in it, on the headboard of the bed, crawling on the toilet paper in the bathroom...big ewwww there. We paid a little more the last year we went and stayed in a nice bed and breakfast a little further away from the convention hall. Well, we didn’t actually pay since my husband was a delegate our town pays, so we kept less of the money I should say! When we went in ‘99 my husband was on crutches. He’d been in a head-on collision that July, it was fun having to be the one lugging our luggage up the stairs of the motel, not! It always amazed me that none of his fellow guys HELPED ME (I’m small!)!
My childhood best friend used to always vacation in Wildwood, that’s all I knew about it! My family went to Belmar for our first Jersey shore vacation when I was a kid, then Seaside Park future years.
As for having the convention after 9/11, I agree with what you said and if ever there was a time for people to gather together, that was an important time. Scarey with the military flying over on occasion, but actually they made me feel pretty good knowing they were up there.
Thanks. I didn’t know how to do it. And it still didn’t work so I’m sure I’m not doing it right. But I remember it. The Admiral’s Table or Quarters was also in the Crest and attached to a hotel, I stayed there once as a teen. I still can’t recall the name of the restaurant on Cresse Ave. I asked my husband tonight and it was definitely a “captain” something but we can’t recall the full name. It was on Cresse and either Pacific or Atlantic. My aunt’s house and business was on Cresse near New Jersey Ave next to the Wagon Wheel Florist - LOL I never could recall the name and called it the purple flower shop because it was purple. Friends of mine searched for “the purple flower shop” thinking it was the name of it when they were trying to find my aunt’s house while I was staying there,lol.
He remembered that we had breakfast at the Captain’s Table, view of the beach, etc.
Duffer’s was a restaurant, ice cream parlor, and Duffer’s Challenge was the game room and putt putt/mini golf, it was right across the street from Green’s Liquors. The wait staff dressed in old fashioned costumes. They had a toy train that went around the restaurant, near the ceiling. It was a hang out for south philly kids but I used to love their French Toast/Hash Brown breakfast so we always went there for breakfast too.
The VFW convention was in June but I never attended that - we always went during the Fireman’s Convention in Sept. and it was my Dad’s VFW Post’s Family Weekend.
I spent my childhood and teenage summers in Wildwood and Margate mostly because I had family in both. We usually go to Ocean City now and we’ve been to LBI. My childhood best friend had a house in Beach Haven and Seaside Heights is familiar to me.
I loved spending summers at the Jersey shore but it’s so expensive now so we don’t do vacation there. We did vacation in the Crest about 6 years ago at Seapointe Village. Many of the old haunts are gone, like Morey’s Inlet (bar).
It was great reliving these memories :)