OCBP One Hundred Years Ago
A Look Back By Fred Miller “Finest and Safest Bathing Beach Along the New Jersey Coast” was the headline on the front page of the April 18, 1924, Ocean City Sentinel-Ledger. The article praised the efficiency of the local lifeguards. “Ocean...Ocean City High School first football team was in 1904
A Look Back By Fred Miller I met with Bill Halkes twenty-four years ago while researching for an article about the history of the Ocean City vs Pleasantville football game. Halkes wrote the book, South Jersey Scholastic Football Scores 1880 to 2000, so I knew I would...Remembering the Park Theatre fire
A Look Back By Fred Miller “Park Fire Loss Set at $75,000” was the headline on the September 12, 1930, Ocean City Sentinel-Ledger. The article reported, “Less than 48 hours (after) it had closed for the season, the Park Theatre, at Park Place and the Boardwalk, was...The Excursion House, Ocean City’s first amusement park
A Look Back at Ocean City By Fred Miller All the amusement centers on the boardwalk trace their roots to the Excursion House. It was built in the spring of 1886 by Anderson Bourgeois for the Ocean City Excursion Company. The company was headed by Ezra B. Lake, S....When Dr. Booker T Washington visited Ocean City
By Fred Miller One hundred and ten years ago, Dr. Booker T. Washington, the most prominent African- American leader and educator in the United States, visited Ocean City. He arrived by the Pennsylvania Railroad shortly before noon on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1914. He was...
