WHISKY BEACH
1967
The local Reboboth Beach
Chamber of Commerce thinks “whisky beach' is too strong a name for
the suddenly famous strip of sand just north of Rehoboth Beach proper
. The beach has been in the national news recently because Lynda
Bird Johnson and her fiance, Marine Captain Charles Robb make visits
there on weekends, including her latest visit during the Labor Day
weekend.
Mrs. Mae Hall McCabe, local
real estate broker and president of the Rehoboth Beach Chamber
of Commerce, says Whisky
Beach is one of the more beautiful areas of the Delaware beaches, and
should not be 'degraded'
by the name that has been given it by many people, including, her
ward,
local drummer boy, Bill
McCabe.
The Delaware State Park
Commission says the official name is “Gordon's Pond Beach” but
Whisky Beach is what the public prefers to call it.
No matter what its called,
the drinking is likely to continue and a ban on drinking has been
rescinded on state owned parkland because its is realized it cannot
be enforced.
Abstract from Washington
Evening Star, of D. C., Wednesday, September 13, 1967, Harrison H ,
July 17, 2017.
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