New Jersey Fun Facts

At the age of 11, Fred Astaire, the dancing extraordinaire, made his stage debut in Keyport's Old Palace Theater.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was occasionally staged in Long Branch at Seven President's Oceanfront Park in the 1800s. Buffalo Bill Cody, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, and Annie Oakley all spent time there.

Before getting into acting, TV and film star Danny DeVito was an Asbury Park hairdresser.

Wildwood beaches expand by up to 100 feet in a single year; they are some of the only beaches on the East Coast where the shoreline is not diminishing.

In July 1960, Chubby Checker first introduced “the twist” dance craze at the Rainbow Club in Wildwood.


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