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Lucy the Elephant - Margate, New Jersey
Lucy the Elephant located in Margate, New Jersey, is one of the most unique and popular attractions in the state. Join my son and I as we explore this one-of-a-kind roadside attraction in the Spring of 2018.
Lucy the Elephant: 65 Foot Elephant Margate, New Jersey (Axis Video)
Lucy the Elephant
Margate, New Jersey
Does a 65 foot giant elephant stand firm on a new jersey beach? Final Investigations will find out.
Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped structure, constructed of wood and tin sheeting in 1881 by James V. Lafferty.
Lucy was one of three elephant buildings. Inventor James V. Laffery designed three elephants in the late 1800's.
Lucy is the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in America
Elephantine Colossus aka Elephant Colossus aka Elephant Hotel in Coney Island, Light of Asia in Cape May, and Lucy the Elephant in Margate. The other two crumbled with time, but Lucy stands tall looking out to sea in Margate.
In 1881, the U.S. Patent Office granted James V. Lafferty a patent giving him the exclusive right to make, use or sell animal-shaped buildings for a duration of seventeen years
Lucy was modeled after Jumbo the Elephant, a famous elephant with Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth and constructed at a cost of between $25,000 and $38,000
Initially named Elephant Bazaar, the structure stands at 65 feet in height, 60 feet in length, and 18 feet in width and weighs about 90 tons
Lucy is the 11th tallest statue in the country.
Lucy was constructed with nearly one million pieces of wood, and required 200 kegs of nails, 4 tons of bolts and iron bars; 12,000 square feet of tin covers the 8 exterior. There are 22 windows placed throughout the structure
Originally, Lafferty brought potential real estate customers to view parcels of land from Lucy's carriage. The carriage offers unique views of Margate, Atlantic City's skyline, the beach, and the Atlantic Ocean and it serves as an observation deck for modern day visitors during tours
Lucy had many uses over the years. When Lucy was first built, Lafferty used to bring in real estate customers to show them land for sale. The structure was also used as a summer home, a restaurant, and a tavern. The prohibition shut down its use as a tavern.
In 1976, Lucy was designated a National Historic Landmark, during the United States Bicentennial celebration. NRHP reference #71000493
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Light Up New Jersey with Lucy the Elephant in Margate City, NJ
On the evening of October 29, 2013, New Jerseyans all over the state got together at various locations to remember the storm of one year earlier, Hurricane Sandy, which directly hit the Atlantic City area and caused so much damage, destruction and loss of life, and to celebrate that even through all that mess, we're still stronger than the storm in the statewide event called Light Up New Jersey.
This was recorded at the event which took place in Margate City, NJ and lit up National Historic Landmark Lucy the Elephant.
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Atlantic City NJ Metal Detecting - Lucy the Elephant Margate NJ -- Asian Supermarket - episode7
Episode 7: Having a look at Lucy the Elephant in Margate, NJ in the present and in the past. Then, a historical glance at Atlantic City NJ and a 3 hour treasure hunt. Afterwards, a visit to an Asian Supermarket.
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Lucy The Elephant, Atlantic City - GoHop.ie - Unravel Travel TV
Lucy The Elephant is located along the beach in Josephine Harron Park in Margate, NJ. She is six stories high and is listed on the National Park Registry of Historical Landmarks. The park is fenced and contained, making child supervision easy. Picnic tables are on site for eating out-of-doors.The site has friendly, trained volunteers and staff to assist you during your visit. On the tour you will learn about Lucy's unique architecture and her history and you will get to climb a spiral staircase through her insides all the way up to the howdah on her back, providing a spectacular 360° view of the surrounding shore area.
Lucy the Elephant was built by real estate developer, James Lafferty, in 1881, as a gimmick to attract potential buyers to his land holdings along the coast of South Atlantic City (now Margate). Eventually, a popular hotel business was built around Lucy. Presidents and royalty came from around the world to stay at the neighboring Elephant Hotel and climb the stairs to Lucy's howdah. During her history, Lucy has survived hurricanes, ocean floods, and even a fire accidentally started by some inebriated party-goers when she served as a tavern. However, by the 1960's it became apparent there was one disaster Lucy could not overcome neglect. By that time, the once proud jewel of the South Jersey coast had become an almost hopeless, wretched wreck. Then in 1970, a developer purchased Lucy's land and intended to build a condominium building on the site. The beach and the ocean could stay - but the elephant had to go. To the rescue came the Save Lucy Committee. Within weeks, this small concerned group of ordinary citizens had raised enough money to move the entire decaying structure two blocks away to a new site owned by the city. Thirty years and over 1.5 million dollars later, Lucy was completely restored to her original splendor, inside and out. In 1976, Lucy was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States government as the oldest surviving example of a unique form of zoomorphic architecture, and the oldest roadside attraction in America. Today, she stands as the most popular non-gaming attraction in the greater Atlantic City region. She has brought fame to Margate City and is known all over the globe as The World's Largest Elephant.
In this short video Rebeca Nesselrode, Unravel Travel TV spoke to Richard Helfant, Executive Director / CEO, Lucy The Elephant.
Lucy The Elephant
Atlantic City, NJ
Unravel Travel TV flew to Atlantic City with Irish owned and managed company who started its online business in 1998. Licensed and Bonded by the Commission for Aviation Regulation, Flights and packages are fully bonded and protected by the Commission for Aviation. GoHop.ie empowers both the independent and business traveller by providing a host of travel information enabling them to make intelligent decisions on their travel plans to secure the best price. Using the Gohop.ie site, travellers can book flights, cars, hotels based on their own preferences and budget. They may also speak with experienced travel professionals who are specialists in a broad range of destinations if they require help in planning a tailormade holiday. Gohop.ie offers the lowest airfares on all airlines out of Ireland. GoHop.ie search web fares, published fares and private fares and display these to their clients thereby ensuring that they are seeing the lowest available fare for their chosen date of travel. Utilising the site travellers can make substantial savings on their itineraries. GoHop.ie have over 230,000 Irish users and are the leading Irish travel website offering choice and comparative listings of airfare offerings.
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NJN Documentary Our Vanishing Past - Lucy the Elephant
Standing 65 feet high, Lucy is the world's largest elephant and the oldest animal shaped building in the United States. She was built just south of Atlantic City, New Jersey (in what is now the town of Margate) by real estate developer James Lafferty in 1881. Lafferty patented his unique animal shaped creation, which drew crowds to the Jersey Shore.
He later designed two other elephants. The 40-foot Light of Asia in south Cape May, New Jersey and Elephantine Colossus at Coney Island, New York. Colossus grew to be 122 feet high and housed seven floors of exhibits and rooms.
Both of Lucy's relatives are long gone. Over the years she faced numerous threats of demolition. Members of the Save Lucy Committee fought to rescue her from extinction. Today, Lucy is a National Historic Landmark.
This is one of the great stories associated with NJN's documentary OUR VANISHING PAST. Due to time constraints Lucy's video had to be cut from the final version of the documentary and now lives on the show's website. The program features more than 30 historic places throughout New Jersey, from crumbling ruins in forgotten towns to spectacular restorations in major cities. The documentary also looks at successful preservation efforts, from grassroots citizens groups to innovative developers.
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Lucy the elephant hotel, Margate, NJ
Est 1881 America's oldest roadside attraction -A national historical landmark. A small hotel you can go in to. Very impressive sculpture with window in the rump under the tail. Hope you check it out when you visit Atlantic City,NJ..505 bus will take you there too.
NEW JERSEY HALL OF FAME MUSEUM VISITS LUCY THE ELEPHANT
The New Jersey Hall of Fame Mobile Museum will be visiting Lucy the Elephant this weekend. This first-of-its-kind museum will be open to visitors FREE of charge, and all visitors to the museum will receive a coupon for $1.00 off admission to a guided tour of Lucy the Elephant valid this weekend only.
The hours of operation are as follows:
Friday, August 23rd from 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Saturday, August 24th from 10:00am - 7:00pm
Sunday, August 25th from 10:00am - 4:00pm
History of Lucy The Elephant, Atlantic City - GoHop.ie - Unravel Travel TV
Lucy the Elephant was built by real estate developer, James Lafferty, in 1881, as a gimmick to attract potential buyers to his land holdings along the coast of South Atlantic City (now Margate). Eventually, a popular hotel business was built around Lucy. Presidents and royalty came from around the world to stay at the neighboring Elephant Hotel and climb the stairs to Lucy's howdah. During her history, Lucy has survived hurricanes, ocean floods, and even a fire accidentally started by some inebriated party-goers when she served as a tavern. However, by the 1960's it became apparent there was one disaster Lucy could not overcome neglect. By that time, the once proud jewel of the South Jersey coast had become an almost hopeless, wretched wreck. Then in 1970, a developer purchased Lucy's land and intended to build a condominium building on the site. The beach and the ocean could stay - but the elephant had to go. To the rescue came the Save Lucy Committee. Within weeks, this small concerned group of ordinary citizens had raised enough money to move the entire decaying structure two blocks away to a new site owned by the city. Thirty years and over 1.5 million dollars later, Lucy was completely restored to her original splendor, inside and out. In 1976, Lucy was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States government as the oldest surviving example of a unique form of zoomorphic architecture, and the oldest roadside attraction in America. Today, she stands as the most popular non-gaming attraction in the greater Atlantic City region. She has brought fame to Margate City and is known all over the globe as The World's Largest Elephant.
In this short video Rebeca Nesselrode, Unravel Travel TV spoke to Richard Helfant, Executive Director / CEO, Lucy The Elephant.
Lucy The Elephant
Atlantic City, NJ
Unravel Travel TV flew to Atlantic City with Irish owned and managed company who started its online business in 1998. Licensed and Bonded by the Commission for Aviation Regulation, Flights and packages are fully bonded and protected by the Commission for Aviation. GoHop.ie empowers both the independent and business traveller by providing a host of travel information enabling them to make intelligent decisions on their travel plans to secure the best price. Using the Gohop.ie site, travellers can book flights, cars, hotels based on their own preferences and budget. They may also speak with experienced travel professionals who are specialists in a broad range of destinations if they require help in planning a tailormade holiday. Gohop.ie offers the lowest airfares on all airlines out of Ireland. GoHop.ie search web fares, published fares and private fares and display these to their clients thereby ensuring that they are seeing the lowest available fare for their chosen date of travel. Utilising the site travellers can make substantial savings on their itineraries. GoHop.ie have over 230,000 Irish users and are the leading Irish travel website offering choice and comparative listings of airfare offerings.
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LUCY THE ELEPHANT -Flag Raising
O say, can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? –
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming!
And the rocket’s red glare, the bomb’s bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
by Francis Scott Key
Margate City New Jersey around 1930
Margate City NJ Circ. 1930
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LUCY THE ELEPHANT-Needs Your Help
Lucy the Elephant , the 134 year old national Historic Landmark in Margate New Jersey needs your help. Lucy gets sandblasted every day and a new paint job is needed now! Please help preserve LUCY!!!
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Chapter 1 – Elephant to Starboard
The outer islands of the Southern Jersey coast are romantically entwined with legends of pirate chieftains fighting battles to the death on sandy beaches, of buried treasure beneath every dune, of whalers rushing for boats when the cry of Thar' She Blows echoed from lookout stations. Mysterious cargoes landed in the dead of night and were quickly gathered by horsemen who disappeared in the deep shadows of the pines, according to legend. Pages of the past are so cluttered with this type of adventure that even dedicated historians are hard put to separate fact from fiction. However, no legend of the colorful Southern Jersey seashore history matches the sight of a 65-foot high wooden Elephant astride the beach looking out into the mists of the sea, a spectacle that according to historians made many coastwise seamen of the tramp ships from the West Indies swear off their rum rations for days.
There is the story of one young seaman on his first voyage who had the early evening watch as his ship made it up the coast on its way to New York harbor.
After first reporting All's well he suddenly yelled Elephant!!”
The captain thinking the seaman had gone berserk rushed to the deck. Lifting his long glass to the shoreline he also exclaimed: Elephant!, wiped off his glass and after a second look confirmed the fact that there was a giant beast standing among the dunes and eel grass of lower Absecon Island. The captain's report at anchoring in New York harbor brought a score of news people and the curious southward into New Jersey to investigate. After a long, dusty ride from the upper part of Absecon Island to what was then called South Atlantic City, the investigators found that the Elephant was no mirage. Here it stood in full majesty, king of all it surveyed.
Metropolitan newspapers the next day were telling the story of a wooden Elephant, which later would become known as Lucy, much to the delight of land speculator James V. Lafferty, Jr., who was responsible for the designing and building of the strange pachyderm. James Vincent de Paul Lafferty, Jr., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1856 of prosperous Irish immigrant parents from Dublin, Ireland. Lafferty, and his wife, Mary Cecelia Tobin, had five children, two of whom died in their childhood. Surviving were Mazie, James III, and the youngest son, Robert.
Lafferty, who grew up to be an engineer and inventor, came into possession of a number of sandy lots in the South Atlantic City area. They were cut off from the frame houses and mule-drawn street cars of Atlantic City, by a deep tidal creek. Only at low tide could anyone make his way down to the sands of his properties. Most of South Atlantic City at that time was a combination of scrub pine, dune grass, bayberry bushes and a few wooden fishing shacks.
Once Lafferty hit upon the Elephant idea he enlisted the aid of a Philadelphia architect named William Free to design this unusual structure he felt would attract visitors and property buyers to his holdings. The Elephant was constructed in 1881 by a Philadelphia contractor at a reported cost of $25,000, which at the time was a considerable amount of money. Lafferty always claimed that before the work was finished the cost Skyrocketed to $38,000.
To protect his original idea, Lafferty applied for and received a patent from the U.S. Government. He made his original application June 3, 1882, and received the patent, No. 268, 503, on Dec. 5, 1882. In his application Lafferty stated: My invention consists of a building in the form of an animal, the body of which is floored and divided into rooms ... the legs contain the stairs which lead to the body .... Lafferty also included a paragraph which stated the building may be in the form of any other animal than an elephant, as that of a fish, fowl, etc. What his intentions were in adding that paragraph have never been clear. He never attempted a building in any of the forms mentioned.
Atlantic City, NJ -- Lucy the Elephant, Absecon Lighthouse (Thanksgiving 2010)
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10 Best Tourist attractions in Atlantic City for 2018 | New Jersey | USA
Top 10 best tourist attractions and things to do in the entertainment capital of New Jersey, Atlantic City which is also known as 'the Las Vegas of the East'.
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Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalks, and beaches.Atlantic City inspired the U.S. version of the board game Monopoly, especially the street names. Since 1921, Atlantic City has been the home of the Miss America pageant. In 1976, New Jersey voters legalized casino gambling in Atlantic City. The first casino opened two years later.
10 Tourist attractions of Atlantic City:
10. Cape May
09. Playground Pier
08. Lucy the Margate Elephant
07. Boardwalk Hall
06. Atlantic city aquarium
05. Absecon Lighthouse
04. The Steel pier
03. Casinos
02. Boardwalk
01. Atlantic City beach
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LIGHTING UP LUCY...LUCY STRONG
To commemorate this historic event, the stations of Townsquare Media joined forces with sites throughout the state to Light Up New Jersey. On Tuesday, October 29th, Lite Rock 96.9 WFPG broadcasted live from Lucy the Elephant. A commemorative Stronger than the Storm flashlight was offered on Lucy's website, LucyTheElephant.org, and at her gift shop. At 6:30pm, all Town Square Media stations throughout the state played the Stronger than the Storm song, as people turned on their flashlights in a moment of light. What came next, with the help of Earl Girls Inc, was 29,000 watts of light that cast a once-in-a-lifetime glow on Lucy's face. She truly looked like she was smiling at the world.