It was a bygone era when men would dress in fine linen suits and women would don beautiful dresses to take a summer’s eve stroll along Virginia Beach’s wood-planked boardwalk. Music would float in the air from the nearby dance hall and sounds of jubilant glee would crescendo from the nearby hotel’s casino. It was a summer paradise where the outside worries of the gentry disappeared on the sands of the beach and new hopes glistened like the beautiful sparkles of the sun’s reflection on the waves. (more…)