Lucy the Elephant
August 28, 2008 by Mary Jo Manzanares
Filed under Car Trips, Fun for Families & Kids, Just for Fun, Things to See & Do, architecture
I love offbeat and quirky kinds of places – for just the reasons that they are offbeat and quirky. I’ve even been known to drive out of my way to see the “biggest,” “smallest,” “world’s only,” “oldest” thing or whatever.
Lucy the Elephant, a couple miles south of Atlantic City in Margate, New Jersey, is one of those quirky attractions that I’ve heard a lot about, but haven’t managed to see yet.
Lucy is a six story, 90 ton elephant made of wood and tin sheeting, and was erected in 1881 to attract tourism and development to the south Atlantic City …read more
