Remembering Laffing Sal On The Boardwalk

Remembering Laffing Sal On The Boardwalk
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“Laffing Sal” used to stand in the cage at the entrance to Jester’s Funhouse on Worcester Street and the Boardwalk. You could easily hear her crazy laugh at least a block away.

Sal was purchased by the Jester family in the early 1940s from a funhouse equipment firm in Philadelphia. Sal shook her head, bowed low, waved her arms and a laugh bellowed from a loud speaker.

Today, Sal resides on the second floor of the Ocean City Lifesaving Station Museum on the Boardwalk at the Inlet. Sal was donated in the summer of 1980 by Mrs. Jester and it was restored soon after.

Stop by and check her out sometime and enjoy all the other exhibits.

Photo by Bunk Mann