Ocean City Roller Chair Company
company · active 1935–
Granted a five-year exclusive franchise over the rolling-chair trade on the Ocean City boardwalk by resolution of the Mayor and City Council on 17 September 1935, "as soon as proper ordinance and agreements were ready". The enabling ordinance passed on 9 December 1935, licensing each chair at $2.00 a year with no personal tax, effective from 1936. It is the earliest exclusive boardwalk concession the campaign has documented.
In the record (1)
1944 · 1944-09-25
Ocean City granted its 1945 rolling-chair concession on the written condition that the chairs be rolled by competent men and 'for White people only'.
Mr. Myron Meyers of 2322 Annapolis Road came before the council in the interest of serving the city with rolling chairs. The council agreed to grant him a permit to operate chairs for 1945 'with the understanding they were to be rolled by Competent Men and for White people only & no advertising.' The word 'Men' is underlined in the original. It is an explicit, dated segregation condition written into a municipal concession, and the council that wrote it was two weeks old.
Ocean City BoardwalkMyron Meyers
Source · checked 2026-08-12