Ocean City, MD Resort Video Guide

Entry posted by CatScraps January 30, 2011

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If any of you have gone on vacation to Ocean City, MD in the 90's, depending on which hotel you stayed at, you may have seen this:

This past summer my family and I went on our annual vacation to Ocean City, and to all of our surprise and delight, the old commercials were still playing on one of the channels on the TV! I rushed to the nearby CVS, bought their last package of VHS tapes, and decided it was my duty to preserve this classic. While everyone else was swimming in the ocean and relaxing on the beach, I was in the hotel room, rewiring the VCR connection to the TV. It only took about a half hour of rewiring before I was able to record.

So I finally have the commercials for my own pleasure. But how on earth do you convert tapes to digital files? This Christmas I received the wonderful Pinnacle Dazzle studio software. This allows you to capture analog recordings and save them onto your computer. So finally the whole world can enjoy the magic.

Some of my personal favs:

"expertly sauced to perfection"

"...why it'll almost make ya blush"

"it's easy to get hooked..."

"the dessert bar is democracy at its best"

I also see the face of the man flambing (not sure how to spell that) in my dreams occasionally. Likely this will remain an in-joke with family members and people here will be left shrugging their shoulders.

This is my first exploit into the world of YouTube. I plan to dig out some more VHS when I have the time and preserve some more rarities. It's hard finding things that aren't on YouTube, and I see no reason to post things that are already there. My brother and I joked that once this video was posted to YouTube we'd receive a letter which said, "Congratulations, thanks to your video now everything is on YouTube."

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