Editing Asbury Park, New Jersey (section)

====1950s and beyond====
In the decades that followed the war, surrounding farm communities gave way to tracts of [[suburb]]an houses, encouraging the city's middle-class blacks as well as whites to move into newer houses with spacious yards.<ref name=GloryDays/>{{rp|190}}

With the above-mentioned change in the travel market, prompted by the opening of the [[Garden State Parkway]] in 1947 and the opening of [[Monmouth Mall]] {{convert|10|miles}} away in [[Eatontown, New Jersey|Eatontown]] in 1960, Asbury Park's downtown became less of an attraction to shoppers. Office parks built outside the city resulted in the relocation of accountants, dentists, doctors, lawyers, and other professionals. Moreover, the opening of [[Six Flags Great Adventure|Great Adventure]] (on July 1, 1974), a combination theme park and drive-through safari located on a lake in [[Jackson Township, New Jersey|Jackson Township]]—and close to a [[New Jersey Turnpike]] exit—proved to be stiff competition for a mile-long stretch of aging boardwalk amusements.<ref>Pike, Helen-Chantal. [https://books.google.com/books?id=RaT7Ip9RXZ8C&pg=PA81 ''Asbury Park's Glory Days: The Story of an American Resort''], p. 81. [[Rutgers University Press]], 2007. {{ISBN|0813540879|9780813540870}}. Accessed January 23, 2018.</ref>

[[1970 Asbury Park race riots|Riots that broke out in the city on July 4, 1970]], resulted in the destruction of aging buildings along Springwood Avenue, one of three main east–west corridors into Asbury Park and the central shopping and entertainment district for those living in the city's southwest quadrant.<ref>Cheslow, Jerry. [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-asbury-park-after-bleak-years-signs-of-progress.html "If You're Thinking of Living In/Asbury Park; After Bleak Years, Signs of Progress"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 27, 2003. Accessed July 18, 2012. "By the mid-1960s, urban flight began; and on July 4, 1970, race riots gutted much of the city, sealing its fate as a backwater."</ref> Many of those city blocks have yet to be redeveloped into the 21st century.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}}

Although it was placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]],<ref>[http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/NJ/Monmouth/state.html New Jersey, Monmouth County], [[National Register of Historic Places]]. Accessed July 18, 2012.</ref> [[Palace Amusements]] was closed in 1988 and was demolished in 2004 despite attempts to save it.<ref name="Aftermath">[http://www.palaceamusements.com/aftermath.html The Aftermath], Palace Amusements Online Museum. Accessed November 10, 2014.</ref> The complex had featured the famous face of [[Tillie (murals)|Tillie]], a symbol of the Jersey Shore.<ref name="Aftermath"/>

In 1990, the carousel at the Casino Pier was sold to Family Kingdom Amusement Park in [[Myrtle Beach, South Carolina]], where it continues to operate.<ref>Staff. [http://www.ultimaterollercoaster.com/news/stories/20080726_01.shtml "Casino Pier"], UltimateRollerCoaster.com, July 26, 2008. Accessed July 18, 2012. "Built in 1923, the Family Kingdom Carousel continues to delight thousands each year. Built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, the ride was brought to Myrtle Beach in 1992 from the famed 'Casino' in Asbury Park, New Jersey."</ref>