Boardwalk Gallery

Boardwalk - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA - Rolling Chairs

Boardwalk - Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA - note the holidaymakers being pushed around in wonderful little three-wheeled wicker seats (rolling chairs / miniature carriages / carts) over the boards - still very popular to this day. Date: circa 1907

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Boardwalk on Hooker Valley Trail with Mount Cook, Mount Cook National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Canterbury region, South Island, New Zealand, Pacific

© Stuart Black

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Night view of the Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey

Night time scene of the auditorium and Convention Hall, later known as the Boardwalk Hall, at Atlantic City, New Jersey circa 1936. Originally envisioned as a health resort, Atlantic City became popular with tourists and was known as "The World's Playground", with Convention Hall housing the annual Miss America Pageant, at that time having the largest seating capacity in the world for a convention hall(40,000.) Date: c. 1936

© LMO Collection / Mary Evans