The story had obviously spread like wildfire about the establishment, in the inexplicable way of such things at seashore resorts, though neither Durand nor she had breathed a word to living soul.
More recently, this once-booming seashore resort was home to the amateur Ocean View Athletic Boxing Club, which shut down seven years ago to make way for development.
All these buildings contribute to the nation's oldest seashore resort.
The city was founded in the early 20th century, and since the 1980s has been continually enlarged by Egyptian and foreign investors to become the leading seashore resort on the Red Sea.
ON A recent Friday, the rain was coming down in torrents, not exactly a welcome sight at a seashore resort in July.
"Certainly the loss of that activity would be the loss of a tradition at this seashore resort, not the soul."
This coming-of-age story takes place in the early 1960's at a modest seashore resort in Northern Ireland.
He and two other men were surf fishing around midnight in Bethany Beach, Delaware when he saw flames coming from a seashore resort.
Kudepsta is another seashore resort, notable for the Vorontsov Caves, stretching for some four kilometers away from the shore.
Among shore communities, Cape May City, at the southern tip of the state, is a living museum of Victorian houses that lays claim to being the oldest seashore resort in America.