“Before the storm there was no way to get from the bay to the ocean,Īnd there was no commercial harbor or bayside marinas,” says Bunk His family in front of the Ocean City pier, 1964. The storm essentially did the work for free. The creation of an inlet connecting the isolated Sinepuxent Bay with the Years, Ocean City citizens had been asking the federal government to fund Three-day surge is credited with launching the modern era of the resort. Known simply as “the storm” and later the Great Hurricane of 1933-the National Weather Service did not begin naming hurricanes until 1950-the Mother Nature herself would transform the barrier island in Augustġ933 with a hurricane that blasted open a 50-foot crevasse known as the Inlet-allowing boats to pass easily from the bay into the Atlantic and viceversa. To town, Ocean City had been a destination, but a quiet, more isolatedĮscape. Since 1881, when a railroad line was completed across Sinepuxent to the shore, bringing rail passengers directly On the Sinepuxent Bay are unequaled.” It was a different He Baltimore Sun published classified adsĮxtolling Ocean City in the early 1910s as More than five-fold to more than 8,000 residents-while explodingĮach summer into the state’s second-largest city with more than Population grew by only 547 new residents. Through four decades from 1930-1970, the town’s year-round The once-sleepy resort and fishing community had been fully overhauled.
Room for Ocean City’s 15-acre Public Works Department headquarters, By the time Playland closed in 1980 to make Sand dunes and Bobby Baker’s Carousel hotel at 118th street until the massive 1970s building explosion, courtesy of the Bay Bridge expansion of ’73. Street, in what was then the boondocks, Annetteįunicello and Frankie Avalon were doing “The Frug” Hotel to the south (its 1875 opening marked theīeginning of a serious tourist trade) to the surfingīeaches and condominium towers near the Delaware Incorporated in 1880-from the famous Atlantic Ocean” before the Town of Ocean City was officially The seaside, known as “The Ladies’ Resort to the The vista encapsulated the entire history of Miles-as good or better than any Cessna pilot haulingĪn advertising banner above the surf: STEAMED The stand afforded Shores a view of the fabledīarrier spit-a very crowded, mere 4.4 square
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