HISTORY OF REHOBOTH
BEACH
SUMMER 1927
Monday, June 20, 1927,
Wilmington News Journal advertisements:
Rehoboth Beach Delaware,
golden hours await you here. We offer every form of
vacation pleasure here at
this delightful resort, where pine groves meet the sea. Beach
parties, dancing,
swimming, speed boating, canoeing, fishing, tennis, golf,
hiking.
The salt air is
invigorating and water is pure . There is no other finer beach
for bathing
on the Atlantic coast as
there is here. Below you will find a list of boarding houses and
hotels, stores,
contractors, real estate dealers ready to fulfill your needs .
There is Henry W. Conant
Company, Seashore Realty, in the Rehoboth Avenue Arcade
Building, with rentals and
insurance.
The Merton By the Sea,
one of the best known family hotels in Rehoboth under the personal
supervision of Miss Mary Downes. Every care is made for your
comfort. It is home like and we have hot running water, our
dinning room overlooking the ocean serving excelled meals. We
have 20 rooms at reasonable rates on the beach.
Hotel Carlton, newly
decorated, hot ad cold running water in each room, electricity.
Only a minute to the beach and we have our own bath houses free to
our guest. A full view of the ocean from our rooms and porch. We
are on the American Plan.
W. H. Hopkins, First
and Olive Avenues , has one large lot on Columbia Avenue ,
streetto street, $1000. Lot facing Golf Grounds $600. House
in the Pines, $2500. Corner
house, overlooking du
Pont Lake, large rooms, fire place, four bedrooms, , a bargain.
Lots on Rehoboth Avenue
$800. Rooms and cottages for rent.
Belhaven Hotel now open
with dancing. George Madden and his Delawareans Orchestra to
furnish music the season. Mrs M. C. Barnett, Propriator.
Pasteurized milk and
dairy products at E. F. Seimes Rehoboth Dairy on Wilmington
Avenue.
Marvel's Hotel, half block
from ocean, Rehoboth Avenue, all modern conveniences,
excellent meals,
reasonable rate, open all year, under the personal supervision
of Mr.
and Mrs Frank Marvel .
Palmer School graduate,
Anna Gregorius, Chiropractor, at Merton Hotel every
Monday,Wednesday and Friday, between 12 and 3.
John Tyndall, builder,
phone 106 Rehoboth.
Concrete block and
building material Ewing Construction, Laurel Ave and Surf.
Arcade Toggery Shop,
haberdashery, cleaning and pressing in Arcade Building
Ralph W. Wingate,
realtor and insurance, Rehoboth.
R, B. Ingram , real estate
and insurance, 100 x 100 lots on Park Avenue $1500.
Rehoboth Garage, First Ave
and Rehoboth Ave., G. W. Joseph, Auto repairs, storage, gas and
oil, washing. Reasonable rates and all night service July and
August.
Every night you can get
the news of Delaware thru Wilmington Every Evening sold
at J. S. Boyds.
On what street was the Merton by the Sea?
ReplyDeleteMerton by the sea is on Delaware avenue. I worked there in 69 & 70.
ReplyDeleteMike smith Bethesda md.
ReplyDeleteMike Smith worked at Merton by the Sea for Charlie Miller and his wife in1969and 1970. With Chris Dowdell and the Haigis sisters. Mafsmithsr@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteChris's brother here. How is Mike doing in 2024? I just googled M-by-the-S and this thread popped up.
DeleteMy family stayed with Charlie and his wife every summer for about 2 weeks at a time. I knew his son Chuck and his daughter (?). What a great time there! Ralph Kabernagel
DeleteI also worked bussing tables in the dining room at MBTSea at about 10-12 years old. Charlie Miller's daughter's name was Bobbi. I would sneak down to the kitchen at night to steal ice cream. Charlie would sit out on the porch and smoke cigars at night. I can still smell them...
DeleteBilly Wiesel lived across from Merton’s by the Sea at 10 Delaware ave. He was shot by Serhan Serhan who killed Bobby Kennedy in the hotel in California. Billy worked for ABC News as a field director.
ReplyDeleteHey Drew. Hope you are doing well. Did you or your brother join the fibbies. M
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