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Caribbean Motel has been featured in major magazines and newspapers around the
world as a subject of travel, lifestyle and architecture... here's a sampling
of what they've been saying about us... | 
 | The
Press of Atlantic City, August 2007
...a banner proclaiming "Preservation
is cool" hangs outside the Caribbean Motel, but the phrase is much more than a
catchy slogan to owners Carolyn Emigh and George Miller. To them, it is a belief
that preserving the style of the island's 1950s- and 1960s-era motels simply makes
sense...
...genuine 1950s architecture that even today, with its overhanging
ramp and crescent-shaped pool, has a futuristic, avant garde look about it...
At
left: (above) Caribbean Motel and grounds featured in Press of Atlantic City.
(below) Renovated rooms at the Caribbean Motel.
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full story... |
| 
 | Washington
Post, June 2007
...you'll see such landmark buildings as the Caribbean
Motel (5600 Ocean Ave.), with (fake) palms, a "levitating" ramp that rises and
curves to the second floor and George Nelson-inspired marshmallow chairs. Oh,
and those colors. "I was horrified by the paint -- it's lime rickey -- but now
I think the rooms are great," said Carolyn Emigh, an Arlington lawyer who with
partner George Miller bought the Caribbean in 2004...
"The Caribbean is
a highlight, a classic doo-wop property," preservation league president Dan MacElrevey
said...
At left: The Caribbean Motel is highlighted in the Washington Post's
June 2007 feature on Wildwood's Doo Wop Motels
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full story... |
|  | Washingtonian
Magazine, May 2007
...the best-preserved of the Wildwoods' 90 remaining
doo-wop motels, which once enticed 1950s working stiffs to the Jersey Shore with
their exotic names and flamboyant designs... ...with its glowing neon sign and
technicolor decor, the motel looks like something out of the Jetsons' vacation
photos, but the newly renovated rooms are clean, and the prices aren't that far
removed from the Eisenhower era...
At left: The Caribbean Motel's pool
area shown on the front page of the Washingtonian's "Dream Weekends"
feature |
|  | Montreal
Gazette, October 2006
...two years ago the Washington, D.C., natives
bought the 30-room Caribbean, one of the finest examples of Doo Wop architecture
remaining in the Wildwoods area. They have succeeded in getting the property placed
on the national historic registry... ...Miller is proud of what he is accomplishing
in Wildwood, which he sees as being far more than a business investment. He and
Emigh are on the lookout for additional properties to invest in and preserve...
At
left: Caribbean Motel featured in Montreal Gazette article about Wildwood's Doo
Wop architecture
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full story... |
|  | American
Profile Magazine, March 2006
...hundreds of neon signs for motels,
restaurants and shops in the seaside resort communities collectively known as
the Wildwoods. The towns, located along a seven-mile stretch of beach, contain
a peculiar and stunning array of modernist architecture featuring pulsing neon
signs, angular roof lines, bright colors and plastic palm trees...
At left:
Caribbean Motel and its glowing neon sign at night shown on the front cover of
American Profile |
| 
 | Smithsonian
Magazine, June 2003
...The motel-packed strip before us suggests an
exotic, if confused, paradise far, far from New Jersey: we pass the jutting Polynesian
roofline of the Tahiti; the angled glass walls and levitating ramp of the Caribbean...
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full story... |
|  | Coastal
Living Magazine, 1999
...what architectural historians regard as the
greatest collection of 1950s-era motels on the planet... this outre' style is
called doo-wop... the town can become to doo-wop what Miami's South Beach (a tourist
mecca famous for its 1930s hotels) is to Art Deco...
At left: Caribbean
Motel at night shown on the front cover of Coastal Living Magazine |
| 
 | Preservation
Magazine, June 2001
Wildwood is now securely famous for these showoffish,
mid-century, once-thought-to-be-tacky motels - architectural Capri pants that
are today recognized as hallmarks of the Doo Wop style, worthy of attention from
tour buses and academic curricula...
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full story... |
| 
| Architecture
Week, October 2001
Visitors to Wildwood
cross a bridge from the New Jersey mainland to the island beach resort and step
back about 50 years. Rows of small-scale, multicolored motels sit beside swimming
pools and copious bright green plastic palm trees. Beaming over the motels are
oversized neon signs in pink, green, yellow and blue... the Caribbean Motel
is in the characteristic "Doo Wop" style of 1950s and 60s resort architecture...
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full story... |
|  | New
York Times, August 2000
In 1999, nearly
three decades after Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour wrote
their homage to the 1950's, ''Learning From Las Vegas,'' Mr. Izenour joined a
group of architects and design students as they unveiled a jazzy blueprint for
a town revival here (in the Wildwoods), complete with offbeat motel makeovers
and campy new buildings. They called it ''Learning From the Wildwoods.'' Now that
it has had time to sink in, the unofficial doo-wop preservation master plan is
prompting a new respect among townspeople for ''trophy'' motels like the Kelly
green and daffodil-yellow Caribbean...
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full story... |
|  | Los
Angeles Times, July 2001
...the architecture
buffs come for the Doo-Wop. Particularly striking is the Caribbean, with
its script neon sign with a star instead of a dot over the "i". The
Caribbean has a long spiral ramp down from the second to the first floor and onto
the pool deck, which is dotted with large plastic palm trees and umbrella stands.
"The Caribbean, in a way, had a double meaning," said Vieyra. "It
evoked a place that the working class couldn't otherwise get to. But it was also
across the street from the Bel Air, which was the Chevy station wagon, and the
Caribbean was the Pontiac one." |
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