amusement company on the boardwalk of ocean city maryland. been a roller coaster ride trying to change through family dynamics and keeping an old school business relevant. i went down to find out the trick to surviving through so many generations and to running an old school business in a modern, high tech world. for brooks and christopher trimper and their aunt stephanie trimper trimper-lewis, taking it over was as much destiny as choice. my grandfather called and wanted me to take over. it was founded by daniel who visited ocean city and never left. he had many things on the property from movie theaters, dance hauls amusements arcades, mini golf. today trimper includes arcades, games rides, other
in this small business, you don t have that. no. we ve been here so long and there s so many stockholders, so many chiefs, not many indians. you need to make sure you speak to everybody. in a business with so much nostalgia attached to it, it s not only the shareholders they re beholden to but also the customers coming for generations. when we take a ride out because it s past its time or we can t get parts for it, the customers say where are the boats? we love the boats. he says his company is decidedly old school pretty much by definition. but they re committed to keeping it alive and so are working with the board to make the changes need today make an old school business survive in this modern world. a clear example is the arcade. marty s playland. the biggest change is what the prizes the kids want. so now we ve got video games with ipads and itouches.