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Peck’s
Beach
A Pictorial History
of Ocean City,
New Jersey
By Tim Cain
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“Cain craftily puts the city’s very nature into perspective.... No one who’s ever enjoyed living in or visiting ‘America’s Greatest Family Resort’ will easily resist this book.”
— Ocean City Sentinel Ledger
96 pages, 102 historic photographs,
bibliography, index, 81/2”x11” hardcover
$27.00
ISBN 0-945582-04-8
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
REPRINT SOON TO BE ANNOUNCED
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The roots of this unique seaside community are explored in text and historical photographs in 21 chapters. Author Tim Cain examines Ocean City’s past — the religious founding of the town; the Boardwalk, and the Music Pier; the resort’s glamorous royal family — Princess Grace and the Kellys; the lifeguarding tradition; shipwrecks, coastal storms, and the Sindia; Ocean City’s famous moments, firsts, and facts; and much more |
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Chapters in Peck’s Beach
American Indians: The First Summer Visitors
Early European Settlers
Parker Miller: The Original Year-round Resident
An Irish Recluse and a Providential Survey
The Reverends Lake and the Town's Genesis
The Tabernacle
Those Ocean City Blues
Getting the Drop on Demon Rum
Flirty Flappers and Beach Tarzans
Lifeguards
The Kelly Clan
Generations of the Ocean City Boards
A Pier without Peer
Sparring with Poseidon
The Elephants' Graveyard
The Sindia:: Our Sunken Treasure
Too Close for Comfort
Simon Lake Submarine Pioneer
Religion and Real Estate
Shuttling to the Shore
Ocean City: In and Out of the National Spotlight
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