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Category: Vanishing Ocean City

Vanishing Ocean City

Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – July 8, 2022

Jul 07,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – July 8, 2022

This artist’s conception of Ocean City purports to show how it appeared in 1895. Published to promote the Baltimore, Chesapeake, and Atlantic Railway, it pictures the hotels and cottages available for rent for summer visitors of that era.The first permanent Boardwalk was built in 1885 and can be seen along the hotel frontage. At the… Read more »

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Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – July 1, 2022

Jun 30,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – July 1, 2022

Assateague reached its peak as a sportsman’s paradise in the years immediately following World War II.During this period, the only access to the isolated barrier island was by boat with duck hunters and surf fishermen as the most frequent visitors. Local kids often accompanied their fathers to Assateague and collected shells that had washed ashore… Read more »

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Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 24, 2022

Jun 23,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 24, 2022

The Stowaway Motel was built by Bill Carrier in 1956 and occupied the entire ocean block between 21st and 22nd streets. It was the largest motel in Ocean City in the 1960s with 120 units spread throughout three sections. Home to the biggest pool on Motel Row (local kids would sneak in to swim in the summer)… Read more »

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Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 17, 2022

Jun 16,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 17, 2022

Although there had been a few individual surfers in the post WWII era, surfing in Ocean City began in earnest in the early 1960s. With no local surf shops at the time, wetsuits were purchased from the Diver’s Den in Baltimore and paraffin wax from the local supermarket.Prior to Ocean City’s first surf shop in… Read more »

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Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 10, 2022

Jun 09,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 10, 2022

In the 1900s and up through the mid-1980s, most of Ocean City’s beaches were narrow and in some places nearly non-existent on high tide. There were areas (14th to 16th streets and the blocks between 21st and 25th streets) where breakers rolled almost to the Boardwalk and there was barely room to set up an… Read more »

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Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 3, 2022

Jun 02,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – June 3, 2022

In 1900 Ocean City’s Boardwalk extended from N. 15th Street to S. 7th Street and was raised several feet above the sand. The beach was narrow in those days and the surf would often roll under the Boardwalk during storms.The photo looks south from where today’s Boardwalk ends — approximately where Harrison’s Harbor Watch and… Read more »

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Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – May 27, 2022

May 26,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – May 27, 2022

The English Diner opened in 1939 on the corner of Wicomico Street and Baltimore Avenue. Moved to 21st Street and Philadelphia Avenue in the last 1950s, it was one of Ocean City’s most popular family restaurants.It was known as “Little City Hall” for the daily breakfast gatherings of Ocean City’s political elite during the years that… Read more »

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Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – May 20, 2022

May 19,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – May 20, 2022

One of Ocean City’s most popular attractions was built by Odie Hartley on 65th Street and Coastal Highway in 1972. Originally known as the “Sea Side Slides,” three concrete slides (painted blue) cascaded down a 38-foot man-made hill where kids would ride rubber mats to splash into landing pools about 2 ½ feet deep.Odie, along… Read more »

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Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – May 13, 2022

May 12,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – May 13, 2022

Mario’s was one of Ocean City’s legendary restaurants. Opened in 1954 by Vera and Jack Maiorana on 22nd Street and Philadelphia Avenue, it served an extensive Italian menu as well as some of the best steaks in Ocean City. The carryout shop was home to delicious subs that people still talk about today.Mario’s was a favorite… Read more »

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Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – May 6, 2022

May 06,2022 by Bunk Mann
Vanishing Ocean City With Bunk Mann – May 6, 2022

In the 1940s into the early ’50s, people in Ocean City received the latest national news from the radio or from daily newspapers. Television was not a factor and cable news networks were far in the future.Summer visitors relied on metropolitan papers such as The Baltimore Sun or News-American or The Washington Post or Star…. Read more »

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