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J I stopped going to the Jersey Shore years ago , because of lazy merchants that are never opened and unwelcoming towns that have “police forces” obsessed with writing petty tickets to soak tourists …

Shore businesses have few good words for summer 2012

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 2012, 10:06 PM
BY LINDA MOSS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

For Steve Mattocks, the owner of Lucky’s Games on the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk, this summer has been pretty much a bust.

Tourists may have flocked to some of the Jersey Shore’s beaches this season, but the unusually hot weather kept people off the steamy boardwalk and away from his two small amusement arcades.

“Hot during the day, and then we’d get rain in the evening, thunderstorms,” Mattocks, who is originally from Norwood, said Sunday. “I didn’t get business during the day, and then I lost the night when it rained. … For me, it feels like I never got out of the recession.”

Some state tourism and municipal officials described this summer’s tourism season as good, and certainly better than last year. In contrast, many businesses “down the shore” were painting a far less sunny picture.

“It was not a great [year],” said Marilou Halvorsen, director of marketing for Jenkinson’s Boardwalk in Point Pleasant Beach and the Casino Pier and Breakwater Beach in Seaside Heights.

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