Summer of 1960
Volume VI
Edition No. 5
Issue Highlights
• The cover of this issue featured an 8-year-old boy with polio shooting off a gun at Frontier Town. In his honor, the theme park declared that all disabled children would not have to pay admission.
• The Lighthouse Players Summer Theatre put on productions of Once More With Feeling and Two For the Seesaw all throughout the month of August.
• Benjamins Department Store in Salisbury sponsored a Seventeen Fashion Show on Aug. 11, narrated by Seventeen Magazine’s Fabrics Editor Emelie Tolley. The show’s models included local Ocean City residents.
• The white marlin population in Ocean City was equal to that of Puerto Rico, the white marlin’s native waters.
• Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was showing at Showell’s widescreen theatre. No one would be admitted to the theatre once the film began, in order to keep the twist a secret.
• Showell’s Block on North Division Street featured, for the first time this summer, bowling alleys equipped with automatic pin setting.
• In his After Dark column, publisher Dick Lohmeyer praised auctioneer Mervyn Elias of Ocean City Auction Gallery. In its eighth year on the Boardwalk, Ocean City Auction Gallery was Ocean City’s oldest auction house.