When the Oakley Beach Hotel opened at the start of the 20th century, under proprietor J.H. Neal, the advertising card read: “New, first-class and homelike. Perfect sanitary conditions, toilets on three floors. Five acres attached; also long pier. 70 bath rooms and dancing pavilion. Salt water bathing, tennis court and croquet grounds. Dancing. Boating, fishing, crabbing and other amusements. 2 steam boats and 2 trains daily.”
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