Ocean City Convention Hall Commission
civic · active attested 1968–1970
Also known as Convention Hall Commission
The body that built the town's first convention hall, chaired throughout this record by Marshall Stewart. In 1968 Stewart presented a rendering of the hall then under construction; in 1969 the commission met the County Commissioners to ask whether the county would take responsibility for the parking area, the appropriation having not covered it; and in 1970 he is still its chairman when the hall opens. It is the earliest of the four convention-centre builds this record follows, and the only one run by a commission of its own.
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1973 · 1973-01-17
Convention Hall advertised a permanent sound-and-light technician's post at $7,201 a year, rising by annual raises to a maximum of $9,462
Classified, 17 January 1973 and repeated through February: "CONVENTION HALL, OCEAN CITY, MD. Permanent position available for Sound & Light Technician, req. background in electronics. Beginning salary, $7,201 - annual raises to max. $9,462. 40 hr. week with poss. OT, days & hrs. irregular. Benefits - 2 wk. vacation, sick leave, personal leave, credit union, retirement, payroll savings, and hospitalization. Call 289-8311 for interview." The hall was three years old and, in the February Sportfishing '73 notice, still "vast, new."
Source · checked 2026-09-10
1973 · 1973-02-07
Sportfishing '73, a two-day NOAA and Delmarva Advisory Council forum on saltwater angling with the NOAA administrator and Lefty Kreh on the panels, was set for the new Convention Hall on 7-8 April, free to the public
"Sportfishing '73 Set At Resort. Large numbers of sport fishermen and others interested in the ocean and its potential are expected to crowd Ocean City, Maryland's vast, new Convention Hall on April 7 and 8 for SPORTFISHING '73, Delmarva-New Jersey Forum and Expo, a series of panels, discussions, demonstrations and exhibits concerned with all aspects of saltwater angling. Sponsored by the Delmarva Advisory Council (DAC) in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service... and the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey." Panels: "Sportfishing Today and Tomorrow," "How to Catch Saltwater Fish," "Sportfishing and the Economy," and "Do We Need a Saltwater Fishing License?" "Key participants... will be Dr. Robert M. White, Administrator of NOAA; Lefty Kreh, Director of the Miami Herald Metropolitan Tournament, and champion caster; Hal Lyman, Editor of 'Saltwater Sportsman'; Richard H. Stroud, Executive Vice-President of the Sport Fishing Institute; Robert W. Schoning, Deputy Director of the National Marine Fisheries Service; Charles Waterman, Outdoor Writer." The 21 February follow-up promised talk on "bluefish, striped bass (rock), sea trout, white marlin" and "the pros and cons of saltwater sport fishing licenses," with a fishing film festival and admission "at no charge... on a first-come-first-served basis."
Source · checked 2026-09-10