Lost Virginia Beach by Amy Waters Yarsinske

Author:Amy Waters Yarsinske [Yarsinske, Amy Waters]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, General, Travel, South, South Atlantic (DC; DE; FL; GA; MD; NC; SC; VA; WV), South (AL; AR; FL; GA; KY; LA; MS; NC; SC; TN; VA; WV)
ISBN: 9781625842329
Google: M792CQAAQBAJ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-05-02T04:55:47+00:00

The western side of Lynnhaven Inlet included the Lynnhaven Hotel (shown here on the left). The bathhouse is center, and the Shell House, which offered shells and other souvenirs for sale, is on the right, at the water’s edge. Out of view is the quick slide into the river. The John A. Lesner Bridge, opened in 1928, is not visible but is on the right behind the Shell House. The picture dates to 1924. All of the motorcycles are Harley-Davidsons, from the 1918 18-J with sidecar to the newest 1924 model; the riders started their ride at Raymond C. Almond’s new Harley-Davidson dealership at Norfolk’s 726 Granby Street. Almond was on the ride with them with his partner, Harry Hunt Garrett. A Ford Model T is to the far left. Courtesy of Raymond C. Almond Jr.

As a telegraph operator, Holland supported the weather station at Cape Henry, which covered a wide swath of the coast from Virginia Beach to Cape Hatteras. After a big storm, weather station personnel would have to leave the bureau building, repair poles and restring the wire. “I’d help out,” said Holland. “I’d take the messages and send them on to the weather bureau in Norfolk, and they’d send them on to Washington. Those signals had precedence over everything; when they came in, everything else had to stop.” But one day, he got an urgent telegram from the Norfolk Western Union office. The hotel manager wanted to know if he knew the Norfolk Virginian managing editor Michael Glennan and, if so, where he had gone. Holland ran out the door and down to the beach, sure that he had last seen him down there with his son, Keville. The Glennans were out on the sand. “I was running. What do you think was the news I had to bring? That the Norfolk Virginian newspaper building was burning down. Hadn’t been built very long, either.”

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