Bakley's Deli in Ocean City, New Jersey ... an occasional posting about stores/restaurants/etc. that are open throughout our community

 

Harry Bakley, his wife and daughter, and a dedicated crew of workers during the summer months handle this corner deli and mini-grocery store in the Northend of the island ... northwest corner of 4th Street & Ocean Avenue.  I enjoy the people working there as well as the people coming into the deli.  I buy my newspapers there ... where can you find a copy of the Friday and Saturday WALL STREET JOURNAL in this small community in the winter?  Why at Bakley's Deli ... that's where.

I also buy the occasional breakfast sandwich there ... usually a sausage and egg on a kaiser roll.  But I'm trying to slow down with this choice.  They also have some great sandwiches and hot soup in the winter months.  Overall, if you need a missing item, our lunch meat, or some other particular missing ingredient; you will probably find it here.

I like this store because it reminds me of many of the family-run stores back in Lancaster County when I was growing up.  They disappeared with the arrival of the larger grocery chains.  But Bakley's survives because it's convenient, friendly, available, and it has a following to keep it around.  That's just another advantage of living on a small barrier island where the winter population drops to around 10,000 or less as we again wait to hopefully survive another nor'easter snow and ice storm with some solid wind arriving at sunset today and again tomorrow.

Now what did that last sentence have to do with Bakley's ... nothing, just goes to show you how rugged our population is around here.                                        dap

 

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