1950s
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The Baltimore Sun
June 21, 1959
Looking South 1950
Ship Wreck 1950
The Alice Anne foundered 100 yrds off shore. The crew of six were saved.
Delmar Court 1950
On Virginia Beach Blvd., 3 miles from Norfolk,
The Fitzzhugh 1950
The Sea Pines 1950
34th Street and Atlantic Avenue
The Tides 1950
Atlantic Avenue near 21st Street
The Gay Manor Hotel 1951
39th Street and Atlantic Avenue
The Overflow Cottage 1951
22nd Street and Pacific Ave.
Ocean Terrace Hotel 1951
19th Street and Atlantic Ave.
Old Dominion Motel 1951
Rt. 60 (Shore Drive) near Little Creek.
Ship Wreck1951
On Oct, 1959, the Grre freighter SS Theafano Livanos, with a crew of 36, ran agound off Virginia Beach.
The Atlantic Hotel 1952
22nd Street and Atlantic Avenue
The Idlewhyle Hotel 1952
27th Street and Atlantic Avenue
Casino 1952
15th Street and Atlantic Vae. The building on the right would later become the Peppermint Dance Club.
Marty's Lobster House 1952
31st Street and Atlantic Ave.
Hotel Warner 1952
34th Street and Atlantic Avenue
The Kenilworth 1953
21st Street and Atlantic Avenue
The Bulluck Cottage 1953
5th Street and Atlantic Avenue
Ocean Terrrace Hotel 1953
19th Street and Atlantic Ave.
Patterson's Cottages 1953
Rt 60 (Shore Drive at Lynnhaven Inlet.
Shore Drive Inn 1953
Shore Drive and Pleasure House Road
The Golf Ranch Hotel 1954
31st Street extended (Laskin Road).
The Surf Club 1954
58th Street and Oceanfront
Camp Farrar 1954
85th Street
Cavalier 1954
CAvalier Golfand Yacht Club
Courtney Terrace 1954
16th Street and Atlantic Avenue
Oceanfront 1954
Ferry Dock 1955
The Little Creek to Kiptopeke Ferry
The Aeolus Hotel 1955
40th Street and Atlantic Avenue
Ocean Front Motel 1955
802 Atlantic Avenue
The Holiday House 1955
14 Street and Atlantic Avenue
The Sea Horse 1955
87th Street, Oceanside
Cavalier 1956
Beach Scene1956
Colonial Inn 1957
28th Street and Atlantic AVe.
The Marshalls Hotel 1957
66th Street and Oceanfront
Ocean Ranch Motel 1957
32nd Street and Atlantic Avenue
Ray Anne Cottages 1957
333 - 315 29th Street
The Pinerest Motel 1957
Rt. 60 (Shore Drive) near Little Creek.
The Surrey Lodge 1957
Atalantic Avenue between 15th an 16th Streets
The Gulf Stream Hotel1957
29th Street and Atlantic Avenue
Beach Scene 1958
The Ferry Pocahontas 1958
The ferries would no ;onger be needed after the completion of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel in 1964.
"The Dome"1958
The Alan B. Shepard Convention Center was opened in 1958. It was the first geodesic dome auditiorium built in the U.S. (No interior supports.) The name was changed to the Virginia Beach Civic Center but was usually reffered to as "the Dome".
Ruddee Motel Apts, 1958
La Playa Motor Court 1958
33rd Street and Atlantic Avenue
The Holiday Sands 1959
11th Steet and Atlantic Avenue
The Mayflower Apts. 1959
34th Street and Atlantic Avenue
The Lynnhaven Bridge 1959
RT 60 (Shore Drive) over the Lynnhaven Inlet.
Normandie Restaurant 1959
2118 Atlantic Avenue