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June 21, 2007
Coming Soon, a theme-park-themed theme park
While setting off the metro on my way to work, I came across this billboard advertising a new section at Hershey Park:
It's "The Boardwalk." I cannot even begin to explain how ridiculous this is, but I'll try. First of all, having grown up in New Jersey, my family would go to the beach at the actual "boardwalk" in Asbury Park. You know, the one from the song Under the Boardwalk. It's the boardwalk that Bruce Springsteen sang about. What the heck is it with making a "Boardwalk" at a themepark that is located 100 miles inland?
Cripes, I feel like my childhood is being co-opted, repackaged, and mass produced for the purpose of being sold cheap to rural Pennsylvanians and Marylanders.
Posted by Dean at June 21, 2007 10:28 PM
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