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3J’s Wildwood Bowl 28 24th Street Market 31 Blue Water Grille 19 Bluewater Welding & Fabrication 22 Bolero Fitness 30 Cape Islands Carpet Care 34 Caribbean Taxi 15 Carini’s 14 Cat House Sound 34 Center City Video 32 Cheap Charlies 36 Classic Ad of the Week 32 Classified Ads 37 Colleen Wilson. Blue Ocean Realty 2 Coupon Pages 20 Crest Tavern 5 Cricket Wireless 8 Dave’s Fashion Photography 21 Discount Uniform 6 Dog Tooth Bar & Grill 11 Dolce Italia 7

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Useless Information The most unusual instrument collection in the world…

Don’t you just feel sorry for the match? Its useful life is just so short. It’s brought to life with just one flick of the stick and then …poof!… the match’s life is over in an instant. This seems like such a complete waste. Every year, we probably dispose of tons upon tons of these things. Could a matchstick recycling program be of some use here? Possibly, but what would we do with all of these things once we collected them all?

Some 14,000 matchsticks later, Jack produced a working violin, bow and all.

You’re probably sitting there with an image of a cheap, flimsy instrument in your mind. Instead, Jack’s violin looked as elegant as the best of violins. But, the real question was whether or not it would actually play. Jack, with his little bit of musical skill, was able to crank out a few screeches, but the real test of the instrument’s quality would have to wait.

Unbeknownst to most people, one man came up with the perfect solution. He used the burnt wooden matchsticks to build musical instruments. Yes, you did read that correctly. He used those dinky little burnt things to build guitars, banjos, and the like.

Jack wasn’t content to stop with the violin. Between the years of 1936 and 1939, he proceeded to expand his collection, which included two mandolins, a tenor banjo, and an acoustic guitar. Not only did he build the instruments, but he also created carrying cases for each one. The cases, get this, were made from the actual boxes that the matches were sent to him in. The outsides of the instrument cases were painted the traditional black, but upon opening, one would be encountered by a dizzying array of matchbox logos and images.

Unintentionally, each case uniquely captured a snapshot of history.

This ingenious man’s name was Jack Hall. Back in the 1930’s, Jack was a sailor aboard the tramp steamer Eastwick and found himself with just a little bit too much time on his hands. Bored out of his mind, Jack just started messing around with the discarded wooden matchsticks that his fellow sailors had left behind, eventually gluing them together into ever increasingly complex and fascinating patterns.

Jack’s first project was nothing to write home to mom about. It was a simple two-ply plank that was basically useless. But, it was a start.

Like all hobbyists, as Jack’s skills improved, his projects became larger and more complex.

He applied his matchstick techniques to the design of boxes, a clock, a windmill, and a lighthouse. All still relatively useless, but they were great to look at up on a shelf.

Creativity led Jack to a major problem. He couldn’t get enough matches. (It’s hard for me to believe that a boatload of sailors could not be smoking enough cigarettes to keep Jack in bountiful supply!) Jack had to seek alternative sources and began to ask his friends and family to collect and save any Jack with some of his instruments. burnt matchsticks that they could get their hands on. Each time that his ship pulled into port, Jack would stock up.

It was the offhand comment made by a fellow sailor that he should “make a fiddle and strike up a tune”, however, that sent Jack off into the world of matchstick music. Jack’s curiosity had gotten the better of him and he was determined to make that fiddle a reality. But Jack lacked some key skills to pull this trick off.

First, he was not a musician. He couldn’t read or play a single note. Even worse, Jack did not have any of the construction skills needed to produce an instrument.

Clearly, this lack of skills did not stop Jack, so let’s continue our story: Each time that his ship stopped in port, Jack would visit local music stores and pawnshops to study the various aspects of the violin. He recorded all of the necessary measurements and made rough pencil sketches of the instrument to take back with him to sea.

For the next six months, Jack devoted five hours per day to creating the fiddle.

He used little more than a sharp knife, a razor blade, some sandpaper, a file, and glue. Each matchstick was soaked in water so that it could be molded into the proper shape. Bricks and other things were used to hold the matchsticks in place while the glue set.

Hobbies of this magnitude require something that so many of us seem to lack these days: time. With the onset of World War II, Jack found himself in a similar situation. By the time of his military discharge in 1945, he had all but abandoned his craft. Over the next forty years, he was only able to add a recorder and a ukulele to his collection.

Excluding a brief exhibition in 1951 at the Festival of Great Britain, Jack’s instruments rarely ever saw the light of day. This would all change in 1976 when a reporter/musician from BBC Radio Brighton heard about Jack’s collection.

Jack pulled the instruments out of his attic and dusted them off. They were in perfect working order and sounded superb.

It would not be until 1991 that Jack’s dream for these instruments would actually come true. His instruments were actually played by a quintet of professional musicians before a live audience on BBC Television. Not only did Jack get to see the instruments professionally played for the first time, but everyone was impressed by the amazing sound that they produced.

Sadly, Jack passed away in 1993 at the age of 86. Jack’s son Tony now cares for his twenty-six piece matchstick collection, which includes thirteen musical instruments, the windmill, the lighthouse, and his other creations.

Jack’s son Tony Hall with the Musicians continue to marvel at this instruments today. unique collection. Most recently, this treasure appeared in an episode of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!. It featured the Rhinestone Cowboy himself, Glen Campbell, playing Jack’s 1937 guitar. Glen stated “It’s a marvelous work of art and as good as any instrument that I’ve played of this era.” At son Tony’s request, Glen performed Amazing Grace for the segment. It was dedicated to Jack’s wife, Tony’s mom, who was struggling with the final stages of terminal cancer at the time. Mom was certainly proud and filled with delight. We can certainly be sure that Jack was looking down from above with equal pride and joy.

And to think that it all started from a few discarded matchsticks…

Useless? Useful? I’ll leave that for you to decide.

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Living in a semi rural neighborhood, we recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on the road.

“Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don’t think this is a good place for them to be crossing.”

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New Jersey, Atlantic City, Wildwood Crest, ocean pier N 38° 58.5' / W 74° 49.4'

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Fred Sturzenegger fell asleep in his chair last Monday night watching the PhiladelphiaDallas football game. When his wife Lydia woke him up the next morning she said, “It’s 20 to seven.”

He asked, “Who’s winning?”

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Wildwood 365 returns to Wildwood Magazine next week!

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Open Daily 10am until BACCALA - $15.99 lb CHESTNUTS - $3.99 lb HOMEMADE • COOKIES • PIZZELLE

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3 level corner condo/townhouse with 2 private balcony/decks, granite counter tops, 2 gas fireplaces, enclosed garage, great room with modern kitchen w/bar and dining room, 3rd level master suite with cathedral ceilings, walk-in closet & master bath with jacuzzi wrapped in white marble, too much to list! Unit #506 offered by the VANAMAN TEAM at $450,000!

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Serving the Wildwoods, Cape May & Cape May County with Quality and Excellence Since 1973

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The Wildwood Plunge will take place January 15, 2011 at The Wildwoods Convention Center.

This Annual Plunge is catching on throughout southern Jersey and beyond.

Complete with hot tubs and indoor facilities for registration and changing, the Wildwood Plunge has grown in popularity each year.

4501 Boardwalk Wildwood, NJ 08260 (609) 729-9000 for Reg. Info

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The Girl Around Town

By Natalie Cooper New Year’s Eve is always a time for celebration.

We come together with family and friends to reminisce on all the times we’ve shared the past year and to toast to the future times we will share in the next one. This kind of celebration is usually in the form of a party-like atmosphere.

There’s no set place where I spend New Year’s Eve. I know the celebration varies each year and throughout the years as I get older. And to think about it now, I’ve spent the night in a lot of different places. I went from spending New Year’s Eve when I was little in my living room with my three younger brothers, banging pots and pans and parading down the street as we watched the ball drop on TV, to spending the night with 50 of my closest family members at an aunt’s house the year of Y2K because we all thought we were going to die, and we wanted to die together.

I’ve spent New Year’s at a raging party held at a friend’s house, with pretty much our whole high school in attendance. I’ve spent New Year’s with just a few close friends, sitting in a living room, playing board games all night. I’ve spent New Year’s away with the family, toasting with my first real glass of champagne when I finally turned legal. And I spent this past New Year’s in Avalon at the Princeton with a 20-person deep entourage.

But the thing that matters with New Year’s is that it doesn’t really matter where I am when the ball drops and the clock strikes midnight. I always get on my phone and wish the people who I love and don’t have the pleasure to be surrounded by that night a happy new year, even though it always takes me 20 minutes to send a text or make a phone call because the lines are always busy and backed up, with every other single person around me trying to do the same thing. That’s the whole point of the night, anyway—to spend it with people I care about. Or, if I’m not that lucky, to wish them good thoughts and wishes through a phone call.

Now New Year’s Day is a whole different ball game. It’s said that however you spend the day is a foreshadowing of how the year will turn out for you. A lot of people I know try to spend the day being active in something they wish for themselves for the next year, so they have a more likely chance of whatever it is they want happening to them. This also factors into play the dreaded New Year’s Resolution.

I’ve heard all the typical New Year’s Resolutions—you know, the ones you hear year after year by at least one person around you that usually consist of dieting or giving up sweets or giving up soda. There are some good ones, though—getting straight A’s in school, becoming more involved, getting a part-time job. And I guess making a New Year’s Resolution can be a good thing…if you plan on keeping it.

I’ve taken to not making a resolution mainly because I never intend to keep it. It’s in my past experience that I’ve learned that if I do, in fact, make one, and I do, in fact, intend to keep it, it still never works out the way I want it to. Maybe I’m making the wrong resolutions and trying to improve the wrong things. I don’t know. But in the past few years I’ve decided to do away with the idea. But that doesn’t mean that people don’t always ask me what I’m giving up for New Year’s or what I want in the New Year or what I’m trying to improve in the New Year. This they still do. And it got me to thinking…

Why does a New Year’s Resolution always have to be something I want to give up? Why can’t I look forward to something in the New Year—something exciting? Why can’t I focus on the things that really matter, looking beyond the superficial expectations of appearance or whatnot? Then I realized that I could if I wanted to. It all depends on me. It’s all up to me, and what I want for myself.

This year, when people ask me what my New Year’s Resolution is, I tell them that it’s to be grateful. I’m blessed to have groups of caring people around me every day. I’m blessed to have good opportunities for me to succeed in whatever which way I want to go. I’m blessed to be alive. And I take this for granted, and I don’t really show how grateful I am. And that’s what a New Year’s Resolution is all about, right? Showing improvement. I think it might be easy enough for me to keep this one and carry it into the next full year. There’s always room for giving and showing thanks. And it makes a big difference to let people know you care. And it can start with two simple words.

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of all sorts. Cheap prices on garage tear downs & removal.

Attic, crawlspace clean outs, furniture & appliance removal, yard clean ups, small tree removal or branches trimmed, oil tank removals (preferrably empty). If something not mentioned, just call and ask, I can probably do it. Ask for Steve 609-425-3552.

Whole house cleaning starting at $60. Call for appointment and details. 609-536-0188.

Financial Services Losing your house? We pay cash. 10 day close. 609-7805394.

Home Improvement Hard working guy looking for odd jobs such as fall clean ups, powerwashing, grass cutting etc. Quality work. All calls returned. 609-780-4168 cell.

Doors, windows, roofing, siding, painting. All major & minor repairs on your home. Call Vinni 609-224-4742.

R.Ryan Construction. Additions, kitchens, baths, decks, roofing, siding, windows, doors and more. Call Rick 609-780-0669 Free estmates, Lic. #13HV01965700 & ins.

Landscaping Planet Earth Landscaping, gutter cleaning, leaf clean-ups, tree trimming. We do anything you need. 609-408-5000

Items For Sale For Sale: Harley Softail Sampon fish tail pipes & quick release backrest. Asking $400 make offer. Call 609-2147679, or after 3pm 609-5231357.

Sony am/fm cd stereo & Infinity 6x9 300 watt speaker. Asking $200. Call 609-214-7679

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Services Psychic Readings. Private groups, events, also phone readings. $45 for ½ hour. info or appointment call Elise 609523-0416.

DJ/Band Jim Scott Presents Entertainment. Available for Christmas parties and New Years Eve. Formerly with “Now & Then”. Call Jim Scott 609729-2323 Business Cards, Brochures, Menus, Postcards etc. Fast turn around and great prices. Call 609-523-8550 or visit wildwoodprinting.com.

Holiday Helpers. Too much to do, not enough time? Let us help. Cleaning, child care, party help. Call Claudette 732816-4264 or 609-224-3551 Power tool repair & service.

Blade sharpening, knives, scissors, ice skates. 609-889-8550 Coalition Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) is in need of new toys and gifts for our Christmas Give Away. Please email Georgia Dougherty at georgiadougherty@yahoo.com or call 522-6489 for drop off information. All ages needed.

DJ & Radio personality Jammin Jack Christy. Specializing in “Back in the day” dance partys. 60s, 70s & 80s dance classics. Now booking night clubs and private partys. 609741-1111

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