That's three different pictures, all telling a different story. The first one shows much more of the context, your two don't have that. On the other hand, the wider shot doesn't necessarily show either element to full advantage.

Yes, I realize what you hoped to do as a composition but it doesn't turn out too well. The part to the right is the kind of tending-to-the-abstract shot of materials you like (the boardwalk trending off to infinity) (not infinity in the photo tech sense), the part to the left colourful historical-human inetrest. They probably called for separate treatment - unless you had the right kind of humans in the right places.