A young, square-jawed surfer and harbor pilot named Bob Holland opened the first sole surf shop at the beach at 19th Street and Atlantic Avenue, across the street from the Pocahontas Hotel.
The year was 1962 and the small resort town of Virginia Beach (population 8,000) and its hulking neighbor, Princess Anne County (population 107,000), were involved in a plan to merge into one vast city.
The idea was to avoid further annexation by land-hungry Norfolk, which already had gobbled up …Â Details
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