The Wilmington morning star., 1940-06-16
VRlGHTSVILLE BEACH ANTICIPATES BEST SEASON
Thousands of Fun-Seeking Vacationists Ex-
pected to Flock to Better-Prepared
Sea Island Resort During
Summer Months

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and with a season which will be %spattered with special
events, Wrightsvile Beach is anticipating a fine season of
fun, fellowship and quiet, restful vacations this summer.
Many improvements have been made at the sea island
resort during the past year and though there has been
no official celebration to designate the opening of the
beach, it is now in full sway, filled with fun-seeking,
pleasure-loving vacationists.
Here each day throngs are arriving from inland
cities, casting off their cares and everyday worries to take
on all the pleasures which are to be found in this para
disc island.
Special Events Planned
Demands of vacationists have caused the beach to
open earlier this year than has been the rule in the past
and already the resort is enjoying a mid-season patronage
from weekend guests, vacationists and fishermen who are
finding the early season an unusually enjoyable time to
be at the beach.
Special events are going to play a big part in the sue
cess of Wrightsvile Beach's season this year. Under the
auspices of the Board Of Trade a special event has been
planned for each month of the season and thousands are
expected to flock to the resort to enjoy the added thrills
and fun that will accompany them.
The first will be an Aero weekend to begin next Sat-
urday, when there will be a meeting of the Carolina Aero
club at the Beach. Saturday night there will be an Aero
ball at Lumina, at which time Miss New Hanover County
will be selected to enter the contest to be held later in the
season for the title of Queen Mermaid Of Wrightsville
Beach. Boat races are also to be staged as a part Of the
thrilling weekend.
Hosiery Facilities Adequate
The July event, to be staged July 10 and IA, will be
the annual Water Carnival. Augustus event will be a
motorboat weekend and and the September event will
consist of a fishing rodeo to be staged sometime after
the middle of the month.
These events are expected to bring unprecedented
crowds to Wrightsvile Beach, but with the increase in
hotel and cottage facilities which has been achieved dur
ing the past year the resort island will be able to care
adequately for all those who come there to enjoy the fun,
thrills and pleasures which will be theirs for the taking.
Here, at Wrghtsville Beach, vacationists find more
thrills and pleasures than at any other resort in this Sec
ton of the nation.
They enjoy the spine-tingling thrills of riding aqua
planes behind zig-zagging motorboats flying over the wa
ter at high speeds and bathers find the new bathing areas,
improved last year by dredging operations carried out as
a means Of erosion control, finer than ever before.
Children enjoy grabbing and bicycling and dancers
this year are enjoying more than ever the nightly dances
held at famous Lumina pavilion where excellent bands
are providing toe-ticking music and the floor is consid-
cred the best in the south.
Sailing, which always plays a big part in a vacation
at Wrightsvine Beach, will be more in the spotlight this
year than ever before. Additions to the sailing fleet and
the fact a gala in%vitational regatta is to be held have
served to focus the attention of vacatonists at the re-
sort on this ever-popular sport.
Sportsmen who enjoy tennis and golf find fine courts
and two excellent courses open to them at all times and
easily accessible to the sea island resort.
Transportation facilities to the resort have been great
ly improved during the past year with the removal OF the
ancient street car line which formerly ran from Whining
ton to Wrightsville Beach and the substitution of speedy,
modern busses which give faster service and more COM
Portable riding.
Deep sea fishing is proving unusually popular this
season and anglers are finding the beach this year has
better boat facilities than ever before. Inlet channels have
been marked by the lighthouse service and make naviga-
ton much easier and completely safe for thoss who ven-
ture out to the deep waters to seek the game, fighting fish
which abound there.
AS in other years the resort town government has
employed an adequate staff of excelently trained life
guards, stationed at various points over the strand, to in
sure those who enjoy surf baths they will encounter no
misfortune While gambOlnp In the SWlrllnp. inVipOratlnp
waters. And for those who come to the seashore but do
not know how to swim, these trained guards will conduct
swimming and water safety classes throughout the sum-
mer.
Numerous conventions have been booked for the beach
during the summer and indications are this summer the
beach will establish itself even more firmly as the con-
vention spot of the Carolinas the place where conven-
ton delegates may gather in comfortable GOODNESS, trans
act the business to which they must attend, and then
give themselves up to the myriad pleasures and enjoy the
%quietude, rest and return to their homes better prepared
to carry on their work for another year.
In all, thousands of vacationists this summer will find
that life at Wrightsvile Beach is good, where they may
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