Ocean City's Historic Boardwalk, Beach, and Bay: The Fisher Collection

Ocean City's Historic Boardwalk, Beach, and Bay: The Fisher Collection
Author: Robert Craig
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467160326

With 275 postcard images, this visual account of Ocean City's historic boardwalk, renowned beach, and surrounding bay and ocean waters draws on the extensive Fisher Collection--perhaps the best private postcard collection on the Eastern Shore.

Ocean City's Historic Boardwalk, Beach, and Bay

Ocean City's Historic Boardwalk, Beach, and Bay
Author: Robert Craig
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540257567

With 275 postcard images, this visual account of Ocean City's historic boardwalk, renowned beach, and surrounding bay and ocean waters draws on the extensive Fisher Collection--perhaps the best private postcard collection on the Eastern Shore.

Historic Lodgings of Ocean City: The Fisher Collection

Historic Lodgings of Ocean City: The Fisher Collection
Author: Robert M. Craig
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2023-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467109266

This is a visual history of the architecture of tourist accommodations in Maryland's famous beach resort. These have ranged from the Atlantic Hotel to the most recent chain hotels and condominiums that have so altered the streetscapes and skyline of the barrier island. Ocean City's architectural evolution paralleled national developments; it began on boardwalk-adjacent and beachfront sites with turreted and gabled cottages and shingle-clad Victorian hotels. By the 1920s, porticoed boardwalk hostelries emerged, and as the popularity of the automobile increased, auto camps and groups of cottages developed into motor courts and mom-and-pop motels during the mid-20th century. After the 1970s, lodgings changed, with infill condominium blocks, time-shares, and megastructures casting afternoon shadows across the beach.

Asbury Park's Glory Days

Asbury Park's Glory Days
Author: Helen-Chantal Pike
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2005-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813540870

Winner of the 2005 New Jersey Author Award for Scholarly Non-Fiction from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Long before Bruce Springsteen picked up a guitar; before Danny DeVito drove a taxi; before Jack Nicholson flew over the cuckoo's nest, Asbury Park was a seashore Shangri-La filled with shimmering odes to civic greatness, world-renowned baby parades, temples of retail, and atmospheric movie palaces. It was a magnet for tourists, a summer vacation mecca-to some degree New Jersey's own Coney Island. In Asbury Park's Glory Days, award-winning author Helen-Chantal Pike chronicles the city's heyday-the ninety-year period between 1890 and 1980. Pike illuminates the historical conditions contributing to the town's cycle of booms and recessions. She investigates the factors that influenced these peaks, such as location, lodging, dining, nightlife, merchandising, and immigration, and how and why millions of people spent their leisure time within this one-square-mile boundary on the northern coast of the state. Pike also includes an epilogue describing recent attempts to resurrect this once-vibrant city.

The Rough Guide to the USA

The Rough Guide to the USA
Author: Rough Guides
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 1482
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1409372332

The Rough Guide to the USA is the ultimate guide to all fifty states. Whether you're planning a classic American road-trip, a visit to New England in the Fall, or a west-coast sun and surf holiday, this guide is the perfect companion. Packed with colour maps, itineraries and route suggestions, it will help you discover the best the United States has to offer, from New York's museums and Chicago's skyscrapers to the deserts of the Southwest and vineyards of California. With expert reviews of hotels, restaurants, diners and bars, plus all the information you'll need on city sights and national parks, you'll make the most of your American adventure with The Rough Guide to the USA. Now available in ePub format.

The City Record

The City Record
Author: New York (N.Y.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1002
Release: 1917
Genre: New York (N.Y
ISBN:

Scenic Highways

Scenic Highways
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2002-03-18
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780895779069

10 scenic drives, including one from New Bern, N.C. to Georgetown S.C., are described in detail while another 27 are summarized.