Page 4 The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch September 20, 2013 Live Entertainment MARGARITA’S & CRAFT BEERS! AND DON’T FORGET MEXICAN MONDAYS! Raw Bar Bloody Mary Bar Mexican Monday H A P P Y H O U R S P E C I A L S CRABBY CHEESE DIP IN A BREAD BOWL! GROUPER FINGERS, CAESAR SALAD, WINGS, KEY WEST, MILD, MEDIUM, NUCLEAR, INFERNO, GARLIC PARMESAN, OLD BAY, BOURBON, BAR B Q, ASIAN SESAME & NAKED! Fall Happy Hour Begins Sunday, September 22 Happy Hour Drink Specials Sunday-Friday 11am-7pm • Saturday 4pm-7pm OCHotel Episode Set To Air Monday By SHAWN J. SOPER NEWS EDITOR D E L A W A R E L O T T E R Y G A M E S $1.99 Select Domestic Pints Miller Lite, Miller High Life, Coors Light $1.99 Select Domestic Bottles Miller Lite, MGD 64, Miller High Life, Coors Light, Coors Original NFL Drink Specials $1.99 Select Domestic Pints $1.99 Select Domestic Bottles $1.99 Rail Drinks $1.99 Rail Drinks - 12oz Happy Hour Food Specials DAILY 4pm-7pm NFL Food Specials WINGS Bone $7.50 (10) Boneless $5.50 (Basket) Tacos • Nachos • Quesadillas Mexican Pizza • Fajitas & Much More .75¢ Oysters & Clams (each) $7.50 1/2 lb Steamed Shrimp WINGS Bone $7.50 (10) Boneless $5.50 (Basket) STRAWBERRY SALAD, LOTSA SLIDERS, BURGERS, LEPRECHAUN LEGS, CLAMS, OYSTERS, STEAMED SHRIMP, COLD PINTS OF DRAFT BEER, 5S 2C HR DE BE IN GS OCEAN CITY – A proud Ocean City Boardwalk hotel dating back nearly 90 years will get its moment on the national stage on Monday when it is featured on national television after a literal and figurative facelift over the summer. The Lankford Hotel and its associated cottages and apartment buildings situated around 8th Street and the Boardwalk opened in 1924 and has been owned and operated by the same family for nearly nine decades spanning several generations. While the hotel has retained its early 20th-century charm and has attracted many of the same visitors each summer for decades, the facility has found it difficult to compete with the newer, more modern Ocean City and its sparkling hotel chains with the latest amenities, particularly in the often-tough shoulder seasons. To that end, the family earlier this year reached out to noted hotel guru Anthony Melchiorri and his crew from the hit Travel Channel show Hotel Impossible to provide a new set of eyes and ears on some of the issues, from aesthetics to an operational standpoint. The episode on Ocean City’s Lankford Hotel, appropriately titled “Boardwalk Gold,” is set to air on Monday night on the Travel Channel at 10. Hotel Impossible follows Melchiorri as he “rescues” struggling hotels, some of which are down to their last hope and at risk of closing, and others, like the Lankford, for example, that simply need a nudge into the 21st Century. Melchiorri and his crew arrived in Ocean City in June and began the process of reinventing the Lankford, and although a recent glimpse of the historic Boardwalk hotel shows little evidence of a major overhaul, at least from the outside, the show’s SEE PAGE 31 The Lankford Hotel is located on 8th Street and the Boardwalk. Photo by Shawn Soper