Jersey?
Some errors about this being in Asbury Park, NJ:
1) You can't pump you're own gas in NJ, whether you want to or not.
2) there haven't been amusements in Asbury Park in about 30 years and there still aren't.
3) The guard mentioned that he was on the "northeast side of the boardwalk." The boardwalk is barely wide enough to have to specify east or west. If he was on the north side, he'd see the whole north side.