In front of the 22nd Street Restaurant 1966

Gary Pancost and Bill Kelly with two waitresses in front of the 22nd Street Restaurant in Ocean City, circa 1966.

I think the 22nd Street Restaurant building is still standing as it became the home of the Ocean City Board of Realitors and still may be.

The restaurant was owned by a Mr. Petratus, also owned a diner in South Camden. A friend of my father, he hired me as a bus boy during one of the first summers we spent in Ocean City, after spending a few weeks every summer in Sea Isle City at the PAL House - the Camden Police Athletic League.

That first summer we stayed in a second floor apartment on Asbury Avenue about 18th Street that was later duplexed.