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It’s refreshing how forthright they are about what they can and can’t offer.

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Unlike this place, trying to substitute delicious taro with deadly fugu.

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And now for the final installment of kitsch, camp and poorly thought-out t-shirt designs from Wildwood.

Wildwood’s littered with 50s-themed diners from the 80s. This one collected a number of original signs from now-defunct motels. Remember that Dan Clowes Eightball cartoon where the future of fashion was various iterations of historical periods? “‘I’m the 80′s version of the 50s.’ ‘I’m the 2010 version of the 50s.’”

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This year’s shirts feature ‘beer’ logos, but they’re really weed logos! Uh, wait, how is that subversive? If you’re a teenager you can’t wear them to school anyway, and if you’re in college, congratulations, you’re on the same level as the kid wearing the ‘Meant to Die’ Christian Moutain Dew spoof.
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Congratulations, Senior class of 2010. Make us proud!

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Don’t touch the creepy animatronic wall-eyed tree? Done and done!

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Who the hell would even think of bringing a cat to the beach? The fact that this sign exists points the answer to ‘somebody, who also probably had them in swim trunks.’

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This name does not inspire one to gorge at the promised ’100 feet of food’.
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This sign condenses a lot of my childhood memories of Rt. 18.
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A pink elephant on top of a liquor store’s a bit on the nose. Why not something subtler, perhaps a neon sign of a guy puking?
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They were so preoccupied with whether they could build dinosaur mini-golf they didn’t stop to think if they should!

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