Essex TV Commercials, Bikini and Karate Contests, 1987


Three Essex-related commercials taped on VHS in 1987:

1. John Burdyck’s Full-Contact Karate “Battle of Baltimore” at Essex Community College
2. “Battle of Baltimore Bikini Contest” at Slammers Nite Club in White Marsh, MD
3. JB’s Oasis Bar on Earls Road in Essex / Bowley’s Quarters, MD

Contributor – Scott Huffines

Pospisils Picnic Beach

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Picnic beach. The Pospisils purchased four waterfront lots on Bay Drive in Bowleys Quarters in 1923, clearing trees and opening 200 feet of shoreline to the public as a swimming beach and picnic grounds. Mary Pospisil recalls the family closing up the nightclub late Saturday night, attending 2:30 a.m. Mass at St. Vincent’s church downtown and then transporting food to the Bowleys shore for Sunday business. The family moved there to live in the 1940s. — Jackie Nickel

Source

Mary Pospisil, Jackie Nickel