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The Resorter Revisited – August 16, 2019
Summer of 1978Volume XXIVEdition 3Issue HighlightsThis week’s “Resorter Girl” was Terry Wooten.An ad featuring Ames Discount Department Stores promoted two stores – one on Route 50 in Berlin and...
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The Resorter Revisited – August 23, 2019
Summer of 1972Volume XVIIIEdition 7Issue HighlightsRow 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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The Resorter Revisited – August 30, 2019
Summer of 1968Volume XIVEdition 1Issue HighlightsThis 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 for...
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The Resorter Revisited – September 6, 2019
Summer of 1971Volume XVIIEdition 1This 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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The Resorter … Revisited – September 13, 2019
Summer of 1962Volume VIIIEdition 6Issue HighlightsThe Frontier Town Can-Can show featured dancers from the Broadway show “Oklahoma!”With 280 rooms, the Plimhimmon Hotel on the Boardwalk at 2nd Street...
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The Resorter … Revisited – September 20, 2019
Summer of 1979Volume XXVEdition 6Issue HighlightsJean 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 be a...
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The Resorter … Revisited – September 27, 2019
Summer of 1973Volume XIXEdition 7Issue HighlightsOcean 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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The Resorter … Revisited – October 4, 2019
Summer of 1969Volume XIVEdition 6Issue HighlightsHastings Real Estate listed for $42,000 a four-bedroom cottage 75 yards from the ocean.Welsh Drug on 22nd Street was offering 48-hour “Kodachrome...
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The Resorter … Revisited – October 11, 2019
Summer of 1971Volume XVIIEdition 5Issue HighlightsAt Davis Promotions’ Rod and Custom Show at the OC Convention Show, “The Original Corvette” was being featured with $1,000 in prize money and trophies...
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The Resorter … Revisited – October 18, 2019
Summer of 1962Volume VIIIEdition 4Issue HighlightsBeginning on Friday July, 6, Ocean Downs Raceway hosted nine races every night.Ocean City Day Camp offered vacationing parents a vacation from their...
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The Resorter … Revisited – October 25, 2019
Summer of 1965Volume XIEdition 2Issue HighlightsIn 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 of...
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The Resorter … Revisited – November 1, 2019
Summer of 1970Volume XVIEdition 5Issue HighlightsThis week’s “Resorter Girl” was Nancy Arenzm who was sporting Villager Swimwear.Mr. and Mrs. R. Marbury Stamp invited guests to their North Winds Motel...
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Summer of 1972Volume XVIIIEdition 9Issue HighlightsA 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 a...
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The Resorter … Revisited – November 29, 2019
Summer of 1968Volume XIVEdition 5Kathleen Harman of the Ocean Mecca motel was praised with the “Prettiest Lobby Award” in the Salt Spray column. Ocean Mecca’s lobby boasted Tiffany lamps, Indian...
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The Resorter … Revisited – October 20, 2017
Summer of 1977Volume XXIIIEdition 7Issue HighlightsThis week’s “Resorter Girl” was Linda Dilks from Wilmington, Del. She was 22 years old and spending her summer working as a waitress at the...
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The Resorter … Revisited – October 27, 2017
Summer of 1961Volume VIIEdition 6Issue HighlightsNew this year at Frontier Town was the Longhorn Saloon & Beef House.The Diplomat Motor Hotel on 26th Street billed itself as “Ocean City’s Smartest...
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The Resorter … Revisited – November 3, 2017
Summer of 1963Volume VIIIIEdition 10Issue Highlights• An editorial, “The Vacant 8 Months,” read, “Late last spring the Mayor and Council were practically forced into hiring a much needed publicity man...
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The Resorter… Revisited – November 10, 2017
Summer of 1977Volume XXIIIEdition 1Issue HighlightsThis week’s “Resorter Girl” was Diane McCall of Baltimore.The Surf and Sands Motel and the Satellite Resort Motel were teamed as “The Ocean Motels”...
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The Resorter… Revisited – November 17, 2017
Summer of 1971Volume XVIIIssue 7ISSUE HIGHLIGHTSThis week’s “Resorter Girl” was Althea Rutherford, who was also featured in a full-page advertisement from Hess Apparel, which had a store on 9th Street...
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The Resorter … Revisited – November 24, 2017
Summer of 1979Volume XXIVEdition 7Issue HighlightsThis week’s “Resorter Girl” was 21-year-old Kim Waters, who was a waitress at the Hayloft this summer and was planning to travel to New York City to...
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