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Old 07-25-2022, 08:18 PM
 
Location: MD's Eastern Shore
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I live here. Violent crime is very rare in Ocean City. When it happens it makes the news in Balt/Wash because those dumps want to make OC out to be a no go zone.

And all the stupid statistics don't count in a place like this because it swells to MD's second largest city in the summer with the tourists but only has a population of about 10,000. That 10,000 is what everything is based on even though hundreds of thousands are here in the summer so on paper it looks bad but isn't even close. All touristy, vacation towns look bad in that sense. It is still a safe, family friendly town.

It is basically a small town that after living here a bit and going around you recognize and get to know a good many people as you always see each other around.
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Old 07-25-2022, 08:33 PM
 
Location: MD's Eastern Shore
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Bumping thread, I still like hearing nostalgic memories if ya got 'em..
On that note, through the 90's, at least for a "fish head" (worked on charter boats) like me there was the old Flying Fish/Canyons Cafe at the Fishing CTR in West OC.

Our typical routs were Sundays, M.R. DUCKS. Mondays, Fagers. I think Tuesdays were Secrets (when it was a decent group of outside bars)

Fish Tales was a small local bar that I would have a drink waiting as I got in the door. Many times I'd get handed a bill with the previous weeks drinking on it so I would stay current as I always wandered away at some point without paying. Great little bar in those days before they made it into a mini secrets. I keep my boat there now and had lunch at the restaurant once. Just not the same!

Late nite grub at Fat Daddy's or Mateos downtown. I'm sure that had something to do with later heart attacks!

Reel Inn guest bar tender night where drinks were ridiculously cheap and ridiculously strong.

Actual closing party's were they sold what they had left. By the end of the night you were drinking the swill that nobody bought over the summer.

The drunk bus....always entertaining. I'm sure I was part of it a time or 2.

Marylue and the Untouchables or Bird Dog at the MR DUCKS deck partys or the Flying Fish Saloon.

Batman....RIP!

Good Times....Some actually remembered!
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Old 08-03-2022, 09:56 AM
 
Location: Boston
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Sun and Surf movie theatres are closing up after Labor Day. Sold out to a hotel developer.
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Old 08-03-2022, 11:46 AM
 
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Sun and Surf movie theatres are closing up after Labor Day. Sold out to a hotel developer.
It's a great location for a hotel.
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Old 08-05-2022, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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Default Out with the old...

I hope that there was a fire.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3305...7i13312!8i6656

https://www.google.com/maps/place/le...!4d-75.0864593
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Old 08-06-2022, 04:02 PM
 
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Sun and Surf movie theatres are closing up after Labor Day. Sold out to a hotel developer.
That sucks.. 1997, I basically lived in there on spring nights, before all the tourist attractions opened for the summer.
I remember seeing a lot of bad movies in an empty theater there.. BAPS, Murder at 1600..etc.
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Old 08-10-2022, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Terramaria
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Jurassic Park, The Lion King, countless other '90s Disney renaissance films, that was truly my go-to place for $6 summer blockbusters. At least unlike that Victorian structure downtown, it wasn't particularly architecturally distinguishing, except when you first walk in and see the first two screens to the left/right of the concessions stand to note where the first two screens were built before they later expanded.
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Old 08-27-2022, 06:52 AM
 
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Our typical routs were Sundays, M.R. DUCKS..

Good Times....Some actually remembered!
Yeah, I remember in the 90s, always seeing M R Ducks & Big Peckers shirts all over the boardwalk. I had a neighbor (one summer) who worked at M R Ducks.. I think it wasn't the bar tho, but just a little shop that sold the Ducks shirts.. not sure if that still exists (?)
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Old 08-27-2022, 07:50 AM
 
Location: Boston
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Yeah, I remember in the 90s, always seeing M R Ducks & Big Peckers shirts all over the boardwalk. I had a neighbor (one summer) who worked at M R Ducks.. I think it wasn't the bar tho, but just a little shop that sold the Ducks shirts.. not sure if that still exists (?)

still there.

https://mrducksapparel.com/
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Old 08-28-2022, 10:20 AM
 
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Yeah, I remember in the 90s, always seeing M R Ducks & Big Peckers shirts all over the boardwalk. I had a neighbor (one summer) who worked at M R Ducks.. I think it wasn't the bar tho, but just a little shop that sold the Ducks shirts.. not sure if that still exists (?)
In the mid-1980s, the Buckwheat t-shirt, "Buckwheat says waves O-tay," was very popular.

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