Daily News | ‘Sand, surf, and Lucy the Elephant’: Iconic roadside attraction’s face-lift unveiled
After 15 months, $2.4 million for a new layer of metal “skin,” and, the six-story roadside attraction drew hundreds of spectators on a late Wednesday afternoon in the Shore’s offseason.
Marty Popoloski, the children’s grandfather, said the family has a membership so they can visit Lucy every year when they pop into their Shore house a block away. Popoloski and the rest of the family weren’t surprised by the crowd of people. Renamed in 1902, Lucy survived everything from lightning strikes to robberies — three men stole one of Lucy’s 6-foot sheet metal tusks in 1984 after a night of drinking, only for the other to be stolen days after her first tusk was recovered., she served as a tavern in 1902 and as a summer home to a British doctor and his family a year after.
Philly resident Mary Gibson, 59, answered Helfant’s call to action on the spot, handing him an envelope with a modest donation. Gibson said it’s a love of elephants, real and steel, that has brought her to Margate since she was 16.
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