Holiday 2019
By George, He Did It! The 19th Century Developer Who Transformed Seven Mile Beach
It’s July 27, 1892, and it’s steaming hot in Philadelphia. You pick up the latest issue of the Inquirer, and an advertisement catches your eye. It reads:
Days Gone By
December 1959 ... Sixty years ago! How better to welcome the jolly man in red than with a key to the city?
You Know the Name: Bernard “Bernie” & Marie Gallagher
If the name Gallagher sounds familiar, it should. After all, long before Fred’s Avalon Liquors became a destination on Dune Drive, there was Gallagher’s Avalon Liquor Store, first at 22nd Street and Dune Drive before moving to the current location (2258 Dune Drive) in the mid-1970s.