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...Horror of Party Beach, billed as "the first horror monster musical," gets off to a swingin' start with a bunch of teen-agers engaged in puberty rites at the shore. But man, dig that cat out there on the jetty. He's real cool. Looks like a stalk of asparagus with an artichoke heart for a head. Marinated by radioactive waste, maybe. And there's more where he came from. Crazy? Let's dance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When a trio known as the Del-Aires isn't pushing that Big Beat, the big beasts claim...
...commuter ferry across the bay as too expensive and too slow. The whole Delmarva Peninsula took fright. So did the Virginia legislature, which appointed a committee to study the problem. Norfolk, which was in the midst of an effort to transform itself into something better than a sleazy shore-leave resort for 70,000 sailors, gave the project enthusiastic support. It took time. But by 1960, the bridge commission, headed by Eastern Shore Businessman Lucius Kellam, had floated a $200 million bond issue, and construction began...
Residents of Virginia's Eastern Shore had mixed feelings. For Kellam and the development-minded, it promised new vitality and customers. But many mourned the loss of the Peninsula's relative isolation, which has made it a cherished corner of quiet. One gloomily predicted that the whole center of the peninsula was doomed to turn into a "one-street city, 70 miles long, a filling station, restaurant, antique shop and real estate office on every block...
...crushed Columbia by seven lengths--the biggest margin of the afternoon and a remarkable one for such a short distance. Stroke Galen Brewater's galiant sprit effort--with Columbia lengths behind and nearly out of sight--brought a roar of approval from the crowd lining the shore...
...heat, water or electricity opened their doors to the homeless. In the streets of the towns, volunteer workers joined military personnel in the unending job of picking up the pieces. In Seward a 30-ton fishing boat lay incongruously in a patch of woods several hundred yards from the shore. In the dockside railroad yard, a big switching engine rested on its side 200 ft. from the tracks...