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Basinger Relives His Summers Working At MBH

Dale Basinger shares his memories of summers working and living at the Madison Beach Hotel

 

In the summer of 1965, Dale Basinger, then a student at Lenoir-Rhyne College, worked as a dishwasher at the for $170 a month, plus room and board. 

In his Salisbury Post piece, "Memories of a Hotel Summer," Basinger brings us back to the days of the old Madison Beach Hotel--back before all of the hotel rooms were outfitted with private bathrooms and heat. 

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The North Carolina native explains that he and the other college students bunked at the hotel, noting that their living conditions "bordered on the poverty level."

The boys shared a space called the Pullman--the attic on the fourth floor, and the girls lived above the kitchen in the Harem, Basinger said. 

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Basinger plans to pay a visit the in July, and it's sure to be a bit different than he remembers. 

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