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Summer of 1972 Volume XVIII Edition No. 4 Issue Highlights •The Resorter cover girl this week was Beth Lauden of Parkersburg, W.Va. •Caliban Corporation announced the selling of High Point North on...
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Summer of 1978 Volume XXIV Edition 3 Issue Highlights • This week’s “Resorter Girl” was Terry Wooten. • An ad featuring Ames Discount Department Stores promoted two stores – one on Route 50 in Berlin...
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Summer of 1972 Volume XVIII Edition 7 Issue Highlights Row boat rentals were available from Capt. William Bunting & Son on Talbot Street. Weekly rentals for $175 were being offered at Three Cheers...
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Summer of 1968 Volume XIV Edition 1 Issue Highlights This week’s Resorter Girl was Susan Richardson, who was also featured in the Hess Apparel full-page ad. English’s Chicken & Steak House was open...
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Summer of 1978 Volume XXIV Edition 4 Issue Highlights • The cover girl this week was Deborah Dashiell. • In its ads, Garland Lane Shoppe, Ltd. was marketing its two resort locations – in the Gold Coast...
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Summer of 1971 Volume XVII Edition 1 This was the first year in 18 that The Resorter published 15 issues rather than the usual seven. Singer Jimmy Holmes was set to perform at the Ships Café Lounge for...
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Summer of 1968 Volume XIV Edition 7 Issue Highlights Those interested in the “historic churches” or “antique shoppes” could write to the Delmarva Antique Dealers Association for a free map to all forty...
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Summer of 1962 Volume VIII Edition 6 Issue Highlights The Frontier Town Can-Can show featured dancers from the Broadway show “Oklahoma!” With 280 rooms, the Plimhimmon Hotel on the Boardwalk at 2nd...
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Summer of 1979 Volume XXV Edition 6 Issue Highlights Jean Bourne, 19, Miss Maryland USA, posed for the cover of this issue. Borne studied radio and television at the University of Maryland to one day...
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Summer of 1965 Volume XI Edition 2 Issue Highlights Frontier Town introduced “U-Drive-Em Goat Carts” and a “prairie dog colony” new for the summer. Every day at the Atlantic Hotel Boardwalk Artist...
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Summer of 1973 Volume XIX Edition 7 Issue Highlights Ocean City’s newest pharmacy, Fenwick Pharmacy, was celebrating its opening in the Resort Shopping Plaza on 143rd Street. A case if Schmidt’s in...
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Summer of 1969 Volume XIV Edition 6 Issue Highlights • Hastings Real Estate listed for $42,000 a four-bedroom cottage 75 yards from the ocean. • Welsh Drug on 22nd Street was offering 48-hour...
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Summer of 1971 Volume XVII Edition 5 Issue Highlights • At Davis Promotions’ Rod and Custom Show at the OC Convention Show, “The Original Corvette” was being featured with $1,000 in prize money and...
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Summer of 1962 Volume VIII Edition 4 Issue Highlights • Beginning on Friday July, 6, Ocean Downs Raceway hosted nine races every night. • Ocean City Day Camp offered vacationing parents a vacation from...
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Summer of 1965 Volume XI Edition 2 Issue Highlights • In his City Hall Report, Councilman C.H. Shuey wrote, “Since you were here last summer, Ocean City has come of age – no longer is it a narrow strip...
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Summer of 1970 Volume XVI Edition 5 Issue Highlights This week’s “Resorter Girl” was Nancy Arenzm who was sporting Villager Swimwear. Mr. and Mrs. R. Marbury Stamp invited guests to their North Winds...
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Summer of 1972 Volume XVIII Edition No. 4 Issue Highlights • This week’s “Resorter Girl” was Gretchen Plate, who was photographed by Dale Timmons. • High Point North on112th Street and the beach was...
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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...
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Summer of 1972 Volume XVIII Edition 9 Issue Highlights •A new seawall was under construction at the Inlet. The 300-day job was estimated to cost $374,535, or $1,250 a day. The new structure, replacing...
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Summer of 1979 Volume XXV Edition 2 This issue’s cover girl was Miss Maryland-USA runner-up Colette Valette from Pasadena, Maryland. Valette, a student at Towson State College, enjoyed travel and...
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