“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government”
If you head to Rehoboth Beach, you’ll find Poodle Beach at the south end of the boardwalk and Gordon’s Pond Beach in Henlopen State Park. Poodle has long been known as the men’s beach, with Gordon’s Pond a hit with the women.
It all started back in the late 1960s, when the Army used the Henlopen Park area as a military resort. At the time, its name was Whiskey Beach. Signs posted there remind beachgoers of its history as a drop-off point for bootleg liquor in the 1920s.
“In the late ’60s through the ’70s, it was a very rowdy spot,” recalled longtime Rehoboth resident Natalie Moss. “You could drink and buy burgers from a little stand in the parking lot.”
At that same time, Rehoboth’s fledgling gay community flocked to the beach at the southern end of the boardwalk. There, beginning in the late ’70s, the beach was mixed with men and women. Some people flaunted the rules, drinking alcohol and the women sunbathing topless. There were arrests, and antagonism between the crowds and the police.
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