🎸Music History1960s
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Chubby Checker first performed "The Twist" at Wildwood's Rainbow Club in 1960, launching the dance craze that swept the nation.
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Wildwood has the largest collection of 1950s Doo-Wop architecture in the world, with over 200 surviving motels featuring neon signs, space-age shapes, and plastic palm trees.
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"Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets—often called the first rock and roll hit—debuted at Wildwood's HofBrau Hotel in 1954.
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Wildwood's beaches are so wide—up to 1,000 feet in some places—that lifeguards drive trucks to their stations. The beach has grown over a mile since 1900.
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