While browsing in an old 1981 magazine I came across this article about the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. " The Boardwalk is arguably the most famous promenade in America. Back in 1870, Camden and Atlantic Railroad conductor Alexander Boardman and Jacob Keim, proprietor of the Chester County Hotel, fed up with having sand and sea water tracked into their passenger cars and hotel lobby, petitioned the city council for erection of a wooden walkway along the beach front. The council duly resolved to construct one, ten feet wide and one mile long. The rest, as they say, is history...." The article credited "Atlantic City: 125 years of Ocean Madness" by Vicki Gold Levi and Lee Eisenberg. Don Kimes