Ocean City Hotel Owners' Association
association · founded 1933
Trade association of Ocean City, Md. hoteliers, fifteen houses strong in 1933. Four days after the hurricane of 23 August it wrote collectively to the Washington Evening Star to announce that all fifteen were open for business and that storm damage had been 'confined almost entirely to flooding of lower floors used as quarters for servants'; within a week it was again buying the season's collective advertisement under the heading 'The Following Hotels Are Fully Open.' In September it was one of sixteen Eastern Shore bodies signing a brief to the Public Works Administration for a Chesapeake Bay ferry loan.
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1943 · 1943-04-30
In the second wartime spring the Ocean City Chamber of Commerce and the Hotel Owners Association announced a season opening 29 May, with reservations ahead of 1942 — because Atlantic City's visitors had nowhere else to go.
Ocean City Chamber of CommerceClifford P. Cropper
Source · checked 2026-08-12
1943 · 1943-07-12
When the Salisbury laundry that washed Ocean City's sheets took army contracts instead, twelve hotels leased a shut-down laundry in Georgetown, Delaware, bought its trucks and ran it themselves.
— 1944 FULL PASS, 2026-08-12 [extended]: The 1944 minute book carries the local sequel. On 15 February 1944 a sitting councilman, E. Raymond Bounds, applied to put a chicken-dressing plant in the OLD LAUNDRY BUILDING ON TALBOT STREET - so the building that had washed Ocean City's sheets stood empty and available that winter. Eight days later, on 23 February 1944, the council granted James H. Phillips a permit to install a laundry in the basement of his own hotel on North 2nd Street, conditioned on his not burning soft coal or making smoke. The twelve hotels' Georgetown, Delaware lease is not mentioned again in 1944 or 1945.
Source · checked 2026-08-12