Gone!

Not to be self centered, but this happens to me all the time: I talk about going someplace special for weeks prior to an event. then a big event like this happens. all summer 2001, i wanted to go to the top of the twin towers. then we all know what happened that september.
for the past few weeks, i've been talking about dates, and verbally promoting certain arcades at seaside and asbury park. in seaside in particular, i was talking about that arcade on the south pier that had all the old arcade games, and that big pinball game with a ball the size of a cue ball. in asbury i've been talking up the spinball museum. i don't know if that survived, but thats a major loss too if it is.
also missing from seaside and that pier area is probably the Sawmill, pizzaria & bar. that place i think had the BEST pizza, on the boardwalk, and definately the largest slice i ever knew.
another fond memory of seaside is the old tank games they had at that pier. thats been gone for years now, but forget that! the whole pier is gone!. sad to hear too that the old carousel that survived 100 years didn't survive this. oddly enough the big ferris wheel and the tower drop still survives... i guess they had a good solid concrete foundation