Penny Smasher @ Surf Mall - Ocean City, NJ
N 39° 16.400 W 074° 34.624
18S E 536481 N 4347194
Genetic ho-hum smasher with anything but a keepsake souvenir from your visit to the shore and America's number one boardwalk.
Waymark Code: WM9HAC
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 08/22/2010
Views: 5
For fifty-one center you can get one of four designs. Turn the crank and get a Ocean CIty NJ keepsake which is kind of boring, a I Love You design, the Lord's Prayer and My Lucky Penny design featuring a horseshoe. The smasher is located in a converted movie theater @ 12th and the Boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ. The smasher is midway inside the store, a little to the left in front of a counter where workers do their transactions.
This converted movie theater is not really a mall even though the name outside says so. It is a neat place though of you are a music lover and a teenager. If you want an awesome tee shirt, or poster or anything any teenager could want, then this is the place to visit after you come up off the sand and beach. Its got stuff for everyone, and its huge! Be sure to check out the blacklight room!
Some quick non-penny smasher history. I think this place used to be called Surf Theater and/or Showboat Theater. It opened in the late 1920s after the great boardwalk fire and of course to quell fears, it was advertised as a fire proof building. The theater was originally vaudville but then changed to movies. The Shriver chain operated the theatre in the 1970s. It closed in the early 1980s and is now an enclosed shopping mall.
Address
1154 Boardwalk
Ocean City, NJ 08226