Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District

As a doo-wop motel the typical motels from the 1950s and early 1960s are referred to in the Wildwoods in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The term was coined by the Mid- Atlantic Center For The Arts in the early 1990s and refers to the doo -wop style of music that was very popular at that time, as the said motels were built.

Curved, asymmetrical shapes ( rounded triangles or trapezoids, boomerang shapes ), pastel colors and flashy neon signs are the essential appearance characteristics of the doo-wop motels. Architecturally, it is plain concrete structures, which was awarded with the decorative elements of the appearance of the exotic and exclusivity. Typical names of such a motels loud Satellite Motel, Caribbean Motel or Bel Air Motel.

Heaped to find Motels in North Wildwood, Wildwood and Wildwood Crest, three adjacent locations on the coast of New Jersey. As the " Wildwoods " they were after the Second World War, the epitome of a holiday resort for the American working class.

Today, around 50 of these motels are still preserved in its original state. After many of the buildings were demolished in the 1990s, sat the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the American Heritage Foundation, 2006, the Doo - Wop motels in the Wildwoods on the list of most endangered historic sites in the country.