Three owners of separate local businesses, Chris Vernon, Jennifer Lackland and Brian Wainwright, all remember the Tumble Town Trampoline Park on the northern end of Ship Bottom from their childhoods. They didn’t all bounce together, but all three used to come to the Island during the summer and look forward to pastimes like the trampolines. It was an amusement pretty typical of a family resort area that people remember long after their bruises healed.

“My mom used to drop me off there and go shopping,” said Lackland. “I was a gymnast. I loved it.