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Cape May As I Remember It: Part Six
The Colonial Hotel, Congress Hall, and the Chalfonte Hotel are three of the oldest structures in the city.
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Cape May As I Remember It: Part Five
Schellenger’s Landing is the area between Cape May Canal and the small bridge entering Cape May. In the 1930s, that bridge was a drawbridge. The boats that were docked on the northwest side of Route 9—now Route 109—had to use the drawbridge in order to reach the Atlantic Ocean via […]
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Cape May As I Remember It: Part Four
This article is concentrated on Beach Drive as I remember it from the 1930s and 1940s, starting at Madison Avenue heading towards the Cove. The Montreal Motel was originally constructed as a two-story motel; a third and fourth floor were additions. The home two doors away from the motel was […]
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Cape May As I Remember It: Part Three
East Cape May to me is all of the land from Madison Avenue to the U.S. Coast Guard Training Center. On Beach Avenue, where the Capri and Ocean Club are currently located, was a carousel and the Cape May Playhouse. I don’t remember the carousel, but I do remember the […]
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Cape May As I Remember It: Part One
The serialized recollections of a Cape May lifer. From Washington Street where it ends at Ocean Street and the mall all the way to the other end has also changed over the years. At the corner of Ocean and Washington Street, where Victorian Towers now stands was Mecray’s Market, eventually […]