Monday, August 18, 2025

Wildwood Days 2025 - Part 1 - Baby Parade fun and meeting John Gigliotti, Wildwood's long-time tramcar driver!

 Part 1 of our Wildwood days summer 2025 season was such a blast!... We met up with and stayed in Wildwood, New Jersey with our extended family and decided that it wasn't too early to promote, 'Flag Me Down: The Story of Wildwood's Tramcar' with our own Gigi and our own, tramcar!...



I crafted our son's tramcar out of paper mâché and cardboard, which allowed me to sculpt around our trusty stroller. It received great reactions, and we plan to bring it out again for trip #2!...

Here's Wildwood's long-time tramcar driver, John Gigliotti, posing with our tramcar and son!...


Flag Me Down: The Story of Wildwood's Tramcar' will be released next summer - Summer 2026!!... Get ready to take a ride!

'Flag Me Down: The Story of Wildwood's Tramcar' is a 56-page graphic novel that's referenced in its periods of time (1949-present) by 1,600 images and made over the course of 4
years.
An un-lettered Page #3:

The most exciting part of this experience for me, has been pictorializing the man who brought the trams to Wildwood himself, Sebastian B. Ramagosa, "The King of The Boardwalk" and his beginnings with partner, Ralph W. Carl - who, would later be a director of Finance for Wildwood and even later, a water controller.
The tramcar's story actually really starts when these two meet, which, was likely at Wildwood's first ever casino pier, the "Wildwood Casino", built in 1898 by Salem County New Jersey natives, James Butcher and Benjamin E. Harris. Both men were Ralph's uncles.

Become an expert on 'The Sightseer' tramcar, in 'Flag Me Down: The Story of Wildwood's Tramcar'

****** COMING SUMMER 2026 ******