Waves Of A Brighter Future Roll In On The Jersey Shore

(From The USA Today -- By Charisse Jones)

The past and future collide in this fabled town by the seashore.

Calico-colored pavilions, unused for decades, dot the beachfront. The skeleton of a high-rise condominium tower that once promised progress hovers nearly 20 years later as a symbol of failed development. Boarded-up windows loom where life used to be.

Now there are signs of rebirth.

ASBURY PARK, the onetime "Jewel of the Jersey Shore" celebrated by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN's debut album 33 years ago, is slowly emerging from a decades-long decline.

The town is putting in high-priced condominiums where abandoned buildings once stood, sprucing up the facades of faded storefronts and rebuilding its storied boardwalk.

Waves Of A Brighter Future Roll In On The Jersey Shore