Ocean City Historical Museum Holds Lecture on Founder of Gillian's Wonderland Pier

Ocean City, NJ-- The Ocean City Historical Museum, Inc. is holding the eighth lecture of their Summer Lecture Series this Thursday on the life of Roy Gillian. Gillian was the founder of Gillian's Wonderland Pier and was a former Ocean City Mayor.

This free presentation will take place at 7 p.m. at the Ocean City Public Library's Chris Maloney Lecture Hall. A documentary will be shown regarding Gillian's Ocean City life.

Gillian is a household name in Ocean City and is best known for starting Gillian's Wonderland Pier in 1965. Wonderland Pier has been a family favorite ever since.

Gillian founded the park on a large uninhabited part of the boardwalk that sat empty for a decade after a fire destroyed the previous entertainment complex there, Stainton's Playland.

Wonderland Pier opened with only ten rides, and now has over thirty, from a carousel, to a log flume, to a haunted house ride.

For any questions about the presentation, call the museum at 609-399-1801.

Photo courtesy of Kevin Jarrett via Flickr.