This installment of Amy Waters Yarsinske’s Virginia community and travel histories, Virginia Beach – Jewel Resort of the Atlantic, takes us back in time to the days when the sparkling resort strip at Virginia Beach drew crowds by the train-full. Readers are visually taken back in time to a Virginia Beach that is no more, an oceanfront lined with summer cottages and welcoming inns, untouched seascapes and the wild country of Back Bay, Croatan, Sandbridge and Fort Story.
You will follow the development of the resort from its salad days to the growth of grand hotels, clubs, nightlife and water sports to attract and accommodate excursionists from up and down the East Coast. Readers are invited to take a visual walk on the boardwalk of yesteryear and follow Virginia Beach through the turmoil of World War II and the unforgettable big band era, and going forward, to the fabulous fifties and sixties, when Virginia Beach formally enjoined with Princess Anne County and incorporated as an independent city in the Commonwealth.
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