December 2018: the Big Easy, formerly the location of Harrison's Restaurant on Coastal Highway, has left the building. Via DelmarvaNow.com: "Ocean City's Big Easy on 60 restaurant closed for good The Ocean City restaurant, located at 5909 Coastal Highway, closed its doors for good this weekend, making the announcement to customers via Facebook on Saturday, Dec. 8th." See the article here.
A post on their Facebook page from December 8th: "ATTENTION PLEASE SHARE!!!!!!!! I would like to thank all of our customers over the past few years. It has been a pleasure serving you however, we will be closing after this weekend to pursue an opportunity that has arisen that will benefit the entire Hall Family. So this your last chance to stop in and enjoy our great food, drinks and staff." See the entire text here.
September 2018: A day after Labor Day weekend, Bayside Cantina announced it's closure. The new concept for the former Phillip's Seafood location in North Ocean City had opened earlier in the year. See the post for those pictures here.
9.7.18: "Abandoned 1950’s-era cottage will be razed" via the Ocean City Today newspaper. Phoio credit: Ocean City Today.
94th Street Mall: In the spring of 2018, demolition work finally began on much of the 94th Street Mall. Mostly empty for the last 10-15 years, the parts which remain are the grocery store on the left side of the parking lot (formerly Super Fresh and now Acme), and Roses, located on the highway.
•Video from the OceanCity.com Facebook page
•2.8.18 OC Mall Demolition Work Planned, But No Redevelopment Plans Near
•2.9.18 Demolition Permit Granted for 94th Street Mall in Ocean City
•2.13.18 Demolition Underway for Long Unflattering Mall in Ocean City
•2.15.18 Demolition has begun at the 94th Street mall in Ocean City
Boardwalk Elvis: June 16th, 2018: we are so sad to learn that dear Norman, aka "Boardwalk Elvis", has gone to the skies above. Sending our love to his family ❤ fly high Norman!
• 6.16 Ocean City's "Boardwalk Elvis" Passes Away
• Watch: The story of Boardwalk Elvis
• 6.16 Norman Webb "Boardwalk Elvis", dies at 78
Previous links:
• May '18 "Boardwalk Elvis" Given Key To Ocean City
• 5.25.18 Boardwalk Elvis, The Original Boardwalk Street Performer, Honored With Key To Ocean City
• 1.8.13 Ocean City’s Legendary Boardwalk Elvis
• Boardwalk Elvis via misteroceancity.com
• 8.16.11 ‘Boardwalk Elvis’: An Ocean City icon
English's Restaurant: A last look at the downtown English's location (15th street and Coastal Highway) after closing several years ago. It's been renovated and is now a different restaurant, however the familiar names and simple brown structures that once dotted the streets are fading from the town.
A post on their Facebook page from December 8th: "ATTENTION PLEASE SHARE!!!!!!!! I would like to thank all of our customers over the past few years. It has been a pleasure serving you however, we will be closing after this weekend to pursue an opportunity that has arisen that will benefit the entire Hall Family. So this your last chance to stop in and enjoy our great food, drinks and staff." See the entire text here.
September 2018: A day after Labor Day weekend, Bayside Cantina announced it's closure. The new concept for the former Phillip's Seafood location in North Ocean City had opened earlier in the year. See the post for those pictures here.
9.7.18: "Abandoned 1950’s-era cottage will be razed" via the Ocean City Today newspaper. Phoio credit: Ocean City Today.
94th Street Mall: In the spring of 2018, demolition work finally began on much of the 94th Street Mall. Mostly empty for the last 10-15 years, the parts which remain are the grocery store on the left side of the parking lot (formerly Super Fresh and now Acme), and Roses, located on the highway.
•Video from the OceanCity.com Facebook page
•2.8.18 OC Mall Demolition Work Planned, But No Redevelopment Plans Near
•2.9.18 Demolition Permit Granted for 94th Street Mall in Ocean City
•2.13.18 Demolition Underway for Long Unflattering Mall in Ocean City
•2.15.18 Demolition has begun at the 94th Street mall in Ocean City
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• Flickr Albums featuring the Delmarva Peninsula
• Ocean City, MD Pinterest Board
• Maryland's Eastern Shore on Pinterest
• Pinterest board about Vintage Delmarva
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Boardwalk Elvis: June 16th, 2018: we are so sad to learn that dear Norman, aka "Boardwalk Elvis", has gone to the skies above. Sending our love to his family ❤ fly high Norman!
• 6.16 Ocean City's "Boardwalk Elvis" Passes Away
• Watch: The story of Boardwalk Elvis
• 6.16 Norman Webb "Boardwalk Elvis", dies at 78
Previous links:
• May '18 "Boardwalk Elvis" Given Key To Ocean City
• 5.25.18 Boardwalk Elvis, The Original Boardwalk Street Performer, Honored With Key To Ocean City
• 1.8.13 Ocean City’s Legendary Boardwalk Elvis
• Boardwalk Elvis via misteroceancity.com
• 8.16.11 ‘Boardwalk Elvis’: An Ocean City icon
English's Restaurant: A last look at the downtown English's location (15th street and Coastal Highway) after closing several years ago. It's been renovated and is now a different restaurant, however the familiar names and simple brown structures that once dotted the streets are fading from the town.
A couple of old postcards featuring the iconic restaurant, however only the image featuring the rooster appears to be from this location at 15th street.
• 2.16.17 New Restaurant Planned For Long Dormant English’s Site
• 9.29.16 English's 'famous fried chicken' property sells in Ocean City for $1.8M
• 1.20.15 English's Family Restaurant to be auctioned in OC
• 1.19.15 English's Chicken, Ocean City landmark, headed for auction
Aladdin Statue at Trimper's Rides (January 10th, 2018): A Facebook post on Trimper's Haunted House - Ocean City, MD shared the news that the Aladdin statue had departed from the amusement park. (Photo credit Trimper's Haunted House Facebook page).
"BREAKING: Aladdin has left the building. After over 40 years as a staple of Trimper's Rides, the Aladdin's Lamp funhouse (Salem Aleikum) has been permanently retired. Installed around 1975, the Arabian Nights-themed funhouse, complete with a genie who bowed his head from his seat atop the ride's entrance, offered a variety of dark corridors, floor obstacles, a maze, and illusions that made anyone proceed with caution and a sense of intrigue. Another one for the memory book, folks."
• See the website for more information
• News Article: "Trimper's: Losing the lamp, but maintaining the magic".
• Follow Trimper's Rides on Facebook here.
JR'S RIBS: Remember J/R's, "The place for ribs?" It was an Ocean City favorite and beloved destination for than forty years.
There were two locations in OC, one at 140th street and the other at 62nd street, right as you would come off of the Route 90 bridge. (this postcard shows one in Rehoboth as well but that must have been before my time).
I took this in 2014 at the 62nd street location. It was the second one to close with the final season being summer 2015.
This is a photo of the North OC restaurant as it morphed into the Tokyo Crab House & Buffet in the spring of 2016.
Sadly, the 62nd Street building sat empty for almost two years. Here was the rental listing
• December '15 "End Of An Era In Ocean City For J/R’s, Owner Jack Hubberman"
• Baltimore Sun, Dec '15 "J/R's Ribs in Ocean City has closed"
• November 2016 "Remembering Ocean City 'Rib King' Jack Hubberman"
The Lagoon Restaurant (Info via Wayne Cannon): "I would say that the Lagoon was there in the latter 1940's and through the 50's. The original Embers was on 9th Street and Boardwalk or just down the street from it. Sam and Irv Taustin opened that in the latter 50's. They would leave that area and move to where they are now and incorporate the Lagoon in their new Embers Restaurant."
"The Lagoon Restaurant was located where the current Embers Restaurant is located on 23-24th Street on the Bay. When it was the Lagoon it was owned by Dick and "Iggy" Hall and it was one of the first upscale, sit down restaurants in OC. The Taustin's bought the restaurant and property and built the Embers. The Lagoon was incorporated into the building of the Embers."
Defunct Amusement Park: Titled "Defunct Ocean Playland Amusement Park - Ocean City, Maryland", this former attraction has a Facebook page and a website link.
"In 1965, construction was completed on Ocean Playland Amusement Park on 65th street bayside, on a large peninsula-type lot that protruded out into the bay at a price tag of over $2 million. The park was only 860 feet long and 375 feet wide and sat behind a 1000-car parking lot off of Coastal Highway. The park, which officially opened for its first day of business on June 18, 1965, was developed by realtor Jim Caine, Oscar Carey, and George Chandler and was built to offer amusements to those staying in uptown Ocean City. The park became an immediate success in north Ocean City, which at the time was extremely underdeveloped and sparse". Photo via the Facebook page.
• 2.16.17 New Restaurant Planned For Long Dormant English’s Site
• 9.29.16 English's 'famous fried chicken' property sells in Ocean City for $1.8M
• 1.20.15 English's Family Restaurant to be auctioned in OC
• 1.19.15 English's Chicken, Ocean City landmark, headed for auction
Aladdin Statue at Trimper's Rides (January 10th, 2018): A Facebook post on Trimper's Haunted House - Ocean City, MD shared the news that the Aladdin statue had departed from the amusement park. (Photo credit Trimper's Haunted House Facebook page).
"BREAKING: Aladdin has left the building. After over 40 years as a staple of Trimper's Rides, the Aladdin's Lamp funhouse (Salem Aleikum) has been permanently retired. Installed around 1975, the Arabian Nights-themed funhouse, complete with a genie who bowed his head from his seat atop the ride's entrance, offered a variety of dark corridors, floor obstacles, a maze, and illusions that made anyone proceed with caution and a sense of intrigue. Another one for the memory book, folks."
• See the website for more information
• News Article: "Trimper's: Losing the lamp, but maintaining the magic".
• Follow Trimper's Rides on Facebook here.
JR'S RIBS: Remember J/R's, "The place for ribs?" It was an Ocean City favorite and beloved destination for than forty years.
There were two locations in OC, one at 140th street and the other at 62nd street, right as you would come off of the Route 90 bridge. (this postcard shows one in Rehoboth as well but that must have been before my time).
I took this in 2014 at the 62nd street location. It was the second one to close with the final season being summer 2015.
This is a photo of the North OC restaurant as it morphed into the Tokyo Crab House & Buffet in the spring of 2016.
Sadly, the 62nd Street building sat empty for almost two years. Here was the rental listing
• December '15 "End Of An Era In Ocean City For J/R’s, Owner Jack Hubberman"
• Baltimore Sun, Dec '15 "J/R's Ribs in Ocean City has closed"
• November 2016 "Remembering Ocean City 'Rib King' Jack Hubberman"
The Lagoon Restaurant (Info via Wayne Cannon): "I would say that the Lagoon was there in the latter 1940's and through the 50's. The original Embers was on 9th Street and Boardwalk or just down the street from it. Sam and Irv Taustin opened that in the latter 50's. They would leave that area and move to where they are now and incorporate the Lagoon in their new Embers Restaurant."
"The Lagoon Restaurant was located where the current Embers Restaurant is located on 23-24th Street on the Bay. When it was the Lagoon it was owned by Dick and "Iggy" Hall and it was one of the first upscale, sit down restaurants in OC. The Taustin's bought the restaurant and property and built the Embers. The Lagoon was incorporated into the building of the Embers."
Defunct Amusement Park: Titled "Defunct Ocean Playland Amusement Park - Ocean City, Maryland", this former attraction has a Facebook page and a website link.
"In 1965, construction was completed on Ocean Playland Amusement Park on 65th street bayside, on a large peninsula-type lot that protruded out into the bay at a price tag of over $2 million. The park was only 860 feet long and 375 feet wide and sat behind a 1000-car parking lot off of Coastal Highway. The park, which officially opened for its first day of business on June 18, 1965, was developed by realtor Jim Caine, Oscar Carey, and George Chandler and was built to offer amusements to those staying in uptown Ocean City. The park became an immediate success in north Ocean City, which at the time was extremely underdeveloped and sparse". Photo via the Facebook page.
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