- published: 21 Sep 2010
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A boardwalk, in the conventional sense, is a wooden walkway for pedestrians and sometimes vehicles, often found along beaches, but they are also common as paths through wetlands, coastal dunes, and other sensitive environments.
Boardwalks along intertidal zones are known as foreshoreways. A boardwalk along a river is often known as a riverwalk and a boardwalk along an oceanfront is often known as an oceanway. Aside from their obvious pedestrian usage, boardwalks have been used to create commercial districts and enable commerce along waterfronts where conventional streets would have been more expensive because of a beach or other waterfront feature. Although boardwalks can be found around the world, they are especially common along the East Coast of the United States in North America.
Many of the original boardwalks in the United States have developed to be so successful as commercial districts and tourist attractions that the simple wooden pathways have been replaced by esplanades made of concrete, brick or other construction, sometimes with a wooden facade on the surface and sometimes not. Indeed in many parts of the U.S. today the term boardwalk often carries more the connotation of a waterfront, pedestrian, entertainment district than the original meaning of a wooden path.[citation needed] One of the earliest such boardwalks was designed in New Jersey and opened June 26, 1870, in Atlantic City.
Actors: Donald Sutherland (actor), Christine Baranski (actress), Jack Warden (actor), Sean Penn (actor), Paul Chihara (composer), France Lachapelle (miscellaneous crew), Louis Malle (director), Anna Maria Horsford (actress), Wallace Shawn (actor), Ed Call (actor), Karen Hale Wookey (miscellaneous crew), James Bruce (miscellaneous crew), Suzanne Baron (editor), Vic Heutschy (miscellaneous crew), Charlayne Woodard (actress),
Plot: Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.
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