“Dream the impossible dream; eat the impossible sundae …” So the song goes – or rather, went – at Show Place Ice Cream Parlour in Beach Haven. Sadly, Show Place and the adjoining Surflight Theatre have closed their doors and will be liquidating their assets in Chapter 7.

The authors have fond memories of shows at Surflight and family outings to Show Place, and we are now in the unenviable position of wishing the institution a melancholy happy trails.