“Every Senior who lived in Maryland during that time (including me) went to Ocean City during Beach Week.”
Correct. I went to high school in Montgomery County. Graduated in 1985. Went to Ocean City for Beach Week in June. Got very drunk. Every night. Probably went to one of “Bart’s” parties and then hit the beach outside the Carousel.
RUSH has a song from an early album that captures those days - “Lakeside Park”
Lakeside Park
Willows in the breeze
Lakeside Park
So many memories
Laughing rides
Midway lights
Shining stars
On summer nights
Days of barefoot freedom racing with the waves
Nights of starlit secrets, crackling driftwood flames
Drinking by the lighthouse, smoking on the pier
Still we saw the magic was fading every year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jos1tFTyHtw