Wildwood is an oceanside resort in South Jersey. The island, technically three separate municipalities, has long attracted families from the Philadelphia area (and.
A Guide To Wildwood Boardwalk T- Shirts, Jersey’s Tackiest Export. It’s not a proper summer until I visit Wildwood.
I’ve been going to Wildwood since I was in utero. My parents took me every year. I started going down myself once I got my driver’s license.
I’ve taken day trips and weeklong stays. I go every summer.
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I usually go in the fall, too. Sometimes I even take a trip down to see the eerily empty boardwalk in the winter. Wildwood is an oceanside resort in South Jersey. The island, technically three separate municipalities, has long attracted families from the Philadelphia area (and, for some reason, French Canadians). The resorts’ beaches are wide, more than a quarter- mile long at some points, and free. The town has long attracted working- and middle- class families.
It’s a place you go and never leave; most Wildwood tourists are repeat visitors. The boardwalk is my favorite thing in Wildwood. It’s where I played in arcades all day as a kid and explored without my parents for the first time. It’s where I brought girls as a teenager (and, in my 3. Running the length of Wildwood into North Wildwood, it’s two and a half miles of pizza shops, ice cream stands, arcades, amusement piers, and t- shirt stores.
Wildwood is a land free of good taste and unfettered by corporate sensibilities. Chains have long struggled to establish a presence down the shore. A weird indie, throw- it- together sense prevails. Trends are followed. In 2. 00. 4, one entrepreneur opened up a “Whack the Iraq” stand where you could shoot paintballs at a live target dressed like Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden. By 2. 00. 8, it had been changed to a game where you took a shot at Big Oil. But t- shirts dominate the Wildwood boardwalk.
I’ve always been fascinated by boardwalk t- shirt culture, back to when I was a little kid and struggled to figure out what COED NAKED shirts meant. The boardwalk’s shirts are tacky and irreverent, liberal and conservative, kiddie and adult. Shop owners will sell pretty much anything. For example, the image above is from a shop on Memorial Day weekend, with two shirts right next to each other.
One quotes Matthew 1. Jesus walked on water, and says “Jesus, my lifeguard, walks on water.” The other is a shirt that reads: “I’m not gay, but $2. It is a shirt primarily worn by gay dudes, a tacky form of pride.
These coexist on the Wildwood boardwalk. As do a ton of shops. But nowhere I’ve been to matches Wildwood’s breadth and tackiness in the t- shirt realm. Kelly is like me.
He grew up coming to Wildwood, he went to a Catholic prep school in Philly and he loves the shore. After taking classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and a suburban community college, he turned his love of Wildwood into a job.
He now spends 7 months a year down the shore running his three t- shirt shops: Mr. T’s, Zombieshark, and Hat Trick. Kelly tells me his shops are the most organized ones on the boardwalk. After checking them all out last weekend, I think he’s right. And he says his organized store, and his own personality, helps make sales.“I, personally, cannot stand Drake,” he says.
So I put his shirts behind Wu Tang out front. And this store, versus my other two, sells a lot more Wu Tang. Maybe because I have a lot of love for Wu Tang, and my sales pitch is a bit different.” Who knew one salesman could reinvigorate teens’ love for Wu Tang?
Beginning in 2. 01. I started chronicling the yearly trends in Wildwood boardwalk t- shirts at Philadelphia magazine. I did t- shirt trend pieces in 2.
This year, Kelly was nice enough to let me hang out with him for a bit while he peddled his wares on Memorial Day weekend. He tells me tie dye is going to make a huge comeback at some point this summer. Boardwalk t- shirt fashion moves quickly.
You are unlikely to find a Sex. One day a customer asked Kelly for a “Taylor Swift or die” shirt.
He made it, people liked it and soon the entire boardwalk was selling “Taylor Swift or die” shirts. Why are t- shirts such a big thing in Wildwood? From talking with him and my own observations on the boardwalk so far this summer, here’s what you’ll find on the boardwalk this year. Fidget Spinners. For the first time in the six years I’ve been chronicling Wildwood boardwalk trends, the most- visible thing on the boardwalk isn’t a t- shirt this year.
It’s a little contraption called a fidget spinner. As our own Drew Magary put it in GQ, a fidget spinner is “a weighted three- pronged thingie with a lone wheel at the center and three inset wheels at each end.” You spin it.
It’s supposed to allow you to concentrate better while your hands tinker with the little toy. They are currently the bane of my high school teacher girlfriend’s existence. And they are everywhere on the boardwalk.
I could blindfold you, take you to the Wildwood boardwalk, spin you around, and tell you to throw a beach ball in whichever direction you please. You will hit a fidget spinner. Is this the biggest non t- shirt boardwalk crazy since 1. At least they’re not that bad, price- wise: The little contraptions are six or seven bucks on the boardwalk. Fortunately, many stores are selling “Fidget with your spinner” shirts, which I’m just going to assume is a sex or masturbation reference of some kind. Cool Cats and Dogs. What’s not a sex reference?
People just like cats.”Senior Week. I spent my senior week on 2. Avenue, the Wildwood/North Wildwood border, a block and a half from the boardwalk.
Five of us paid $1. Qu. I slept in a fold- out bed in the kitchen. I spent hours on the beach, ate pizza from Sam’s every day and hung out on the boardwalk every night. It was perfect. I’m sure I bought a senior week t- shirt, but I don’t have it anymore. Christine Whitman called the shirts “an appeal to personal bias and bigotry.” Even General Mills denounced the shirts, which nonetheless sold like hotcakes: The Philadelphia Inquirer quoted a t- shirt shop owner who said he sold six dozen a day at $1.
Anyway, the t- shirts with a homophobic version of the Trix rabbit are gone. Possibly in their exact place are gay pride shirts. Many may be a bit crude, but there has been progress on the Wildwood boardwalk. Confederate flags. Or not. Despite being in a union state, Wildwood boardwalk t- shirt sellers offer a small variety of confederate flag t- shirts.
People—okay, generally racist white people—will joke that Wildwood is “below the Mason- Dixon Line,” which would be true if the Mason Dixon Line extended through New Jersey (it doesn’t). If you need an example of why the southern stars and bars is generally a symbol of white pride, just look to Wildwood. Marijuana. Public attitudes toward marijuana have shifted in recent years. Reformers are optimistic they can legalize weed in the state once anti- drug Gov. Chris Christie leaves office at the start of next year.
Judging by the amount of pot t- shirts on the Wildwood boardwalk, they are set. If I lived in Jersey, I’d vote for stoned Bugs Bunny for governor.
General Patriotic Merchandise. There’s always a market for American stuff, particularly if it also involves telling people you like to get completely wasted.
Conservative Political Merchandise. If you need a t- shirt that sounds like a text from your uncle, you can buy it on the boardwalk. Ethnic Pride. Are you proud of your heritage or want to tell people you have a temper and you’re italian?
Wildwood has you covered. Boy Shorts With Problematic Slogans. Imagine wearing a shirt that shows you are the “bitch” or “property” of some dude. Now imagine doing that! I have to admit, though, “E- ZPass” is a pretty good boy short slogan.
Creepy Father T- Shirts. These are some of the scariest t- shirts on the boardwalk. It’s understandable fathers are worried about their kids when they begin dating. It’s understandable—in a weird Wildwood sense—that they’d want to buy a t- shirt expressing this worry. But it is not understandable that dads want to wear these horrific shirts. Politicians. Kelly told me the election tore the boardwalk apart last year.
People were so angry about Trump and/or Clinton that they sometimes even yelled at him, he says, even though the vendors on the boardwalk are agnostic about the content of their merchandise. He keeps his political stuff in the back, a tactic a bunch of t- shirt sellers appear to have taken this year. If the Halloween mask poll correctly predicted Trump’s upset win last November, then the rapid disappearance of Trump merchandise from boardwalk store fronts does not bode well for the president. There are also a collection of Kanye/Beyonce/Justin Bieber for President shirts for the kiddies. Sports! Honestly, these are probably the most popular shirts on the boardwalk. Kelly tells me that he expects his biggest sellers the first half of the summer to be Team USA basketball shirts (every boardwalk store also sells pinnies made up to look like basketball jerseys). Even though it’s now been almost a full year since Rio 2.
I have to imagine boardwalk t- shirt sellers started pushing these kinds of products in order to sell double the amount of t- shirts. Tattooed Disney Princesses and Marilyn Monroe. I am not sure where these came from. Not because they sprung out of nowhere, but because there have been several different artists who drew tattoos on Disney princesses. Ditto Disney princesses under arrest. The Marilyn Monroe shirts appear to be derived from Miami’s now- defunct Purple Heart Clothing, which put Marilyn in Miami Heat jerseys back in 2. Or maybe they ripped off someone else instead!
The Wildwood boardwalk leads you to many, many mysteries. Lifting. People who lift generally have to tell everyone about it, but now they can do it with a shirt instead of their words. Much easier. Kids Cartoons.
I’ve been told (by my friends with kids) that Paw Patrol is the bane of their existence. Well, you can be sure to find a bunch of Paw Patrol stuff on the boardwalk this year. Keep an eye out: When Despicable Me 3 hits theaters later this summer, the boardwalk is going to be crawling with Minions again.
Drew Carey - Wikipedia. Drew Allison Carey. After serving in the U.
S. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand- up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring in his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show, and serving as host of the U. S. He has hosted the game show. The Price Is Right since 2. CBS. He is interested in a variety of sports, has worked as a photographer at U. S. National Team soccer games, and is a minority owner of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC. Carey has written an autobiography, Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined, detailing his early life and television career.
Early life. He left KSU after three years. After leaving the university, Carey enlisted into the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1.
He first came to the national eye as a comedian when he competed in the 1. Star Search. In 1. Carey had a small role in the film Coneheads as a taxi passenger. In 1. 99. 4, Carey co- starred with John Caponera in The Good Life, a short- lived sitcom on NBC. The sitcom revolved around a fictionalized version of Carey, as he took on the stresses of life and work with his group of childhood friends.
The show premiered on September 1. ABC. In his autobiography, Carey revealed his frustration with having to deal with censors and being unable to employ the off- color humor common in his stand- up routines. The show starred (in order of episode appearances) Carey, Diedrich Bader, Kathy Kinney, Ryan Stiles (all in every episode); Craig Ferguson (starring role in seasons 2–8 and guest appearances in 9); Christa Miller (seasons 1–7); and Ian Gomez (semi- regular from seasons 1–9) and John Carroll Lynch (semi- regular from seasons 3–9). Improv television?
He would announce the improv guests, direct the games, and then would usually involve himself in the final game of the episode. The show ran for a total of 2. In 1. 99. 8, the New York Friars' Club made Carey the newest inductee of the group's Comedy Central Roast. His friend Ryan Stiles (who costarred in The Drew Carey Show and Whose Line Is It Anyway?) served as the roastmaster.? Animation on the screen was inserted during post- production. In April 2. 01. 1, Carey began hosting a primetime improv show, called Drew Carey's Improv- A- Ganza.
It was filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, and first aired on April 1. The show ran from August 7, 2. April 7, 2. 00. 8 and aired twice weekly during the late summer and early fall. Each game featured contestants predicting how a cross- section of Americans responded to questions covering a wide variety of topics in polls conducted by CBS. After initially turning down the offer, Carey announced on Late Show with David Letterman that he would succeed Barker as host of the program beginning in the fall of 2. In response to replacing Barker as host of the game show, Carey stated . I don't compare myself to anybody..
It's only about what you're doing and supposed to do, and I feel like I'm supposed to be doing this. However, Carey kept the old closing line about spaying and neutering the pets that originated with Barker, although his version uses slightly different wording. During Carey's second year as host, he began to write some of the sketches used during the Showcase, which sometimes features guest appearances by stars of other CBS programs. In the April Fools' Day 2. Carey and announcer George Gray switched places with the models, letting the two men be the models for the episode. Other roles and appearances. As a result of his dismissal, Carey sued A& W for compensation.
When his video camera fails, the audience is left in complete darkness, wearing earphones, following his adventure through sound cues. The attraction is now closed. In 2. 00. 0, Carey was given a cameo appearance in the House Party expansion pack of the computer game The Sims. Carey is a fan of The Sims series, and during one April Fool's episode of The Drew Carey Show, a scene takes place completely within The Sims. His next film was the 2. Geppetto, which debuted on The Wonderful World of Disney.
The film, an adaptation of Pinocchio, included actor Wayne Brady, who had joined Carey on his improv shows. Bush, noting Carey's improv work, made a joke of his own: ?
Got any interest in the Middle East? In this series, Carey traveled throughout Germany to photograph multiple FIFA World Cupsoccer games while he immerses himself in the culture of the towns and states he visits.
He also surfaced in the second season of Community, playing a well- liked former boss to Jeff Winger. On March 4, 2. 01. Good Morning America that Carey would compete on the season 1. Dancing with the Stars. He was partnered with professional dancer Cheryl Burke.
The couple was eliminated on the sixth week of competition, finishing in 8th place. On the last Friday of every month, he hosts a three- hour radio show on Little Stevens Underground Garage, Sirius. XM. Writing. In 1. Carey published his autobiography, Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined, wherein he shared memories of his early childhood and of his father's death when he was eight.
He also revealed that he was once molested, had suffered bouts of depression, and had made two suicide attempts by swallowing a large amount of sleeping pills. The book featured large amounts of profanity and, as the title suggests, includes multiple dirty jokes (there is one at the start of each chapter) and references to beer. The book was featured on The New York Times bestseller list for three months. Carey has had refractive surgery to correct his vision and therefore did not really require glasses (any glasses he wore in public were merely props to help the audience recognize him).! As of 2. 00. 7, Carey resides in Los Angeles and New York City. They have no children together. Nicole and Connor have appeared alongside Carey on The Price Is Right several times.
He also claimed that he cured his Type 2 diabetes. So the way we decide to live our lives and our decisions about what we buy or don't buy are much more important than who we vote for. He made donations to Ron Paul's presidential campaign for the 2. The first episode, . Other episodes discuss topics such as eminent domain, urban traffic congestion, and medical marijuana. Sports involvement. National Soccer Team, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Indians, and the Columbus Blue Jackets.
In 1. 99. 9, Carey was part of the pregame ceremonies at the first game of the return of the Cleveland Browns, televised on ESPN. Carey is a minority owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, who began play in Major League Soccer on March 1. MLS Cup. Carey is a fan of FC Barcelona and of the Scottish team Rangers.
He was rewarded by the Cleveland Indians for being . Carey responded to his bobblehead likeness by saying . He appeared in a few backstage segments before his brief participation in the match. Upon entering the ring, Carey stood unopposed for more than half a minute, but after the next entrant, Kane, refused a monetary bribe, Carey eliminated himself from the match by jumping over the top rope and retreating from ringside. He placed fifth, beating out only actor Jack Black. Carey won $2,0. 00 for his charity.
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