The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
BEACH ENTERTA|NS RECORD CROWDS
Pleasure Spot of Southeastern United States
Offers More Fun This Year Than Ever
at Prices Within the Range of
Every POcketbOOk

Every POcketbOOk
Carolina Beach, with facilities for a day, a week.
end or an entire vacation jampacked with thrills, fun,
frolicking and frivoity, this summer is entertaining rec
ord vacation crowds and is anticipating that when fall
arrives it will be able to mark the calendar of 1910 as it's
most successful season.
The rapidly expanding resort town had it's official
opening last weekend with record crowds on hand for the
festivities and old residents of the fun-filled town are pre-
dieting even better crowds during the summer as the sea-
son progresses.
This year as never before the fun spot of southeast
en United States is offering the vacationist more fun in
the form of surf bathing, sun bathing, dancing, excellent
dining, bicycling, horseback riding, aviation, INCORPORATING,
fishing, rifle shooting, jitterbugging, %picnicking, romance.
and general health-givng, invigorating fun at a cost that
is within the range of everyone and the crowds are TAX
ing advantage of this opportunity.
Operators of businesses at Carolina Beach have made
1t a point to see that prices are kept within the reach of
all people with the idea of giving everybody an o%pportuni-
ty to share the fun and ~frolcking which is at Carolina
Beach for them.
The preseason and opening weekend crowds which
have visited Carolina Beach this season have indicated
that the people of the southeastern states, many of whom
feel the need for a vacation more this year than ever be-
fore, are planning to have the finest vacation of their
lives. Leaving their cares and continuous worries behind
them, f~orsaking inland cities with their blasting, devas-
tating heat and worrisome noise, they are flocking to
Carolina Beach to have a good time and to give their chill
dren a healthful and entertaining vacation.
Vacation Days, Happy and Carefree
At Carolina Beach they can drop their troubles and
live. Here they can battle in the cool, invgorating waters
of the blue Atlantic, bask lazily in the glorious sun, keep
comfortably cool in the ever blowing breezes from over the
salt water, and enjoy the pleasures of tennis, golf, horse
back riding, strolls in the moonlight and all the other nu-
merous varied forms of recreation which the increasingly
popular resort town has to offer.
From the first Weakening dip in the blue Atlantic wa
tiers to the last rhythmic swing on the dance floor and the
walk home through the moonlight, vacation days at Caro-
lima Beach are happy, carefree days, free from worry and
fret.
During the past year hotel and guest house accomo-
dations have been greatly expanded at Carolina Beach and
now offer the vacationist better quarters at reasonable
prices.
Additional businesses have opened on the streets of
the town which has become known as "the fastest grow
ing town in the state" and vacationists today find there
is not a need which they may have which cannot be inn
mediately filled at Carolina Beach at a price similar to
that which they would pay at home.
Fishing Activities Increase
And fun is easier to find this year than ever before.
This year for the first time there will be riding stables
at the beach, and a short distance from the resort town a
flying field has been constructed to care for those who
wish to fly to the beach, who wish to take cross-country
hops or who wish simply to take a brief passenger hop.
Completion of the yacht basin and canal connecting it
with the inland waterway makes it possible for large fish
ing boats to operate out of the resort town this year for
the first time, taking parties either deep sea fishing or to
the Gulf Stream where Turk the barracuda-fighting fool
of the sea-amberjacks dolphin, tuna and marlin.
Fishing IS expected to be better here this year than
in any year in the past five. Commercial fishermen say
last winters unusually cold weather has driven the big
fish further south than usual and that Carolina Beach
and it's nearby fishing grounds are going to benefit from it.
In recent years bowling has become one of the more
popular pastimes at the resort town and this year both in
door and outdoor bowling are available for those who en-
joy the healthful sport.
Another sport which has been added to the pleasures
OF the growing town is boxing. Each Friday night through
out the season the finest amateur boxers in the state will
meet to give the vacationist spectators an early evening
of exciting, colorful action.
And for the Riddles, who always enjoy something with
a carnival atmosphere to it, there are more exciting, safe
and novel riding devices this year than ever before. In ad-
dition to the traditional merry-go-round and ferris wheel,
there are electric scooters and other novel and popular de-
vices on the ocean front near the center of the beach.
Dining facilities have also been improved this year
and those who enjoy good food will find it at Carolina
Beach in abundance. Fresh %seafoods, deliciously prepared
and nicely served, are always to be had here at most rea-
sonable prices.
In addition to all this Carolina Beach, despite it's ire
mendous growth, has lost none of it's hospitality or the
genuine friendlness with which it makes the v~acationist
feel welcome and at home.
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