The grand re-opening of a Jersey shore icon as Lucy the Elephant is once again welcoming visitors after being shut down for more than a year for restoration.
"It’s brought back so many memories. It’s just a major landmark and she looks absolutely beautiful," Margate resident Cheryl Alberts said.
"We’ve been waiting a long time. I kept saying ‘When is that scaffolding coming down?’ It’s pretty amazing," Debbie Staashaught added. After a 15-month, $2 million makeover that included new wood, new steel, new paint and new infrastructure, the 141-year-old unique roadside attraction, Lucy the Elephant, is open again.
"She’s the oldest roadside attraction in America. There are a lot of statues and historic sites, but there’s only one great elephant," explained Richard Helfant, with Save Lucy Foundation. Lucy’s illustrious history includes being built in the likeness of a P.T. Barnum circus elephant in 1881, by a Philadelphia developer who was trying to market the shore and sell his beachfront lots. Through the years, she deteriorated and was almost destroyed, but locals loved their famous, six-story pachyderm."She’s 65 feet tall, 90 tons before breakfast and the cutest elephant in the world," Helfant commented.
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